Standing By : War-Time Reflections in France and Flanders
New York: E P Dutton, 1919.
Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #14580
Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, fore-edge margin paper tears, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Memoir of 1917-1918 service in France of as chaplain of a South African Native Labour Corps (SANLC) contingent. One chapter, "The WAACS" hints at his in-theatre affair with a Canadian nurse, with whom he eventually left his wife and moved to Tahiti. Edward G Lengel; World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919; 664. Keable achieved break-through success with his later first novel, Simon Called Peter, a thinly veiled account of his wartime romance, which achieved notoriety and was even mentioned in The Great Gatsby. ; Ex-Library; 271 pages.
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