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Bruce Bairnsfather (1888–1959)

Author of Bullets & Billets

26+ Works 182 Members 6 Reviews

About the Author

Image credit: From "Bullets & Billets," 1916 (Project Gutenberg)

Works by Bruce Bairnsfather

Associated Works

The History of Piracy (1932) — Contributor — 101 copies, 3 reviews
The Faber Book of Christmas (1996) — Contributor — 50 copies, 1 review
Fifty Amazing Stories of the Great War (1936) — Contributor — 28 copies, 1 review
Christmas Short Works Collection 2014 (2014) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Legal name
Charles Bruce Bairnsfather
Birthdate
1888-07-09
Date of death
1959-09-29
Gender
male
Education
United Services College, Westward Ho!, Devon, England, UK
Nationality
UK
Associated Place (for map)
UK

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Reviews

6 reviews
Bruce Bairnsfather successfully managed to balance humor and introspection with the horrific realities of the war in this marvelous memoir.
I love this book, Bruce Bairnsfather is a famous satirist artist of WWI creating the character ol' Bill.
This is a memoir of his time in WWI working on the front with his machine gunners.
You can feel both his struggle and his humor on the entire situation.

I recommend reading this as well as reading his collection of drawings, Fragments of France.
A marvelous collection of war comics from the humorist Bruce Bairnsfather. I particularly loved “The New Submarine Danger” and “There Was a Young Man of Cologne.” The entire book had me chuckling.
A realy good readI felt this book gave a honest look at life in the trenches during ww I .After reding Fragments from France one gets a sense of life at that time.The book is well worth reading.

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Rating
3.9
Reviews
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ISBNs
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Languages
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