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iUniverse, Published 2003. Hardcover, xxv, 149 pp.; 24 cm; cloth issue, published simultaneously with a paperback; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, facsimiles of documents and newspaper advertisements, and printed music.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Blue boards, gilt lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges and corners. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket, sepia portrait of Craig to front panel and a blue-toned view of him at the Sphinx in Egypt to rear, has light bumping to edges and mild shelf wear. Not price clipped, priced $25.95. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Norman McLeod Craig was a nineteen-year-old medical student at Queen's when he attested to the Canadian Expeditionary Force in March 1915, served in Egypt with the Royal Army Medical Corps, and finished the war as a flight commander in the Royal Naval Air Service. In 1932, out of patience with a Fergus town council that had deferred a war memorial for seventeen years, he wrote a war play and staged it himself in June 1933 with a local cast, at least seventy-five percent of gross receipts going to the memorial fund. His grandson, a Hollywood writer and director, prints the text and music here for the first time, with Craig's attestation papers, wartime photographs, the newspaper advertisements, and the program for the 1935 Dawn Parade that finally unveiled the monument. Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Assorted First World War Documents; Photographs; The Royal Edward; You're Lucky If You're Killed; The Performances; Glossary; You're Lucky If You're Killed (the play text); Main Characters; The Music; The Dawn Parade; The Parade Program; The Legacy; Document Appendix.