Boyd Cable

• Nov-1917
• / General Fiction
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Forced from their home in the south by the dust storms (Dust Bowl), the Joads, a family of 'Okies' are lured to California to find work; instead they find disillusionment, exploitation, and hunger. The Oxford Companion to Literature says that '...it ...

• Jun-2010
• / Action Adventure
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Twenty seven stories of the men who fought the War of the Trenches

There are many well known authors of the fiction of war who have relied upon their imaginations to create their fiction. Not so the less familiar author of this book, who revea...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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In this gripping collection of World War I stories, author Boyd Cable employs the innovative method of using actual battlefield dispatches as the backbone around which he builds his gritty, unflinching tales of wartime bravery, tragedy, pluck and tri...

• Feb-2014
• / General Fiction
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"The readers of Boyd Cable''s ""Between the Lines,"" ""Action Front,"" and ""Doing Their Bit,"" have very naturally had their curiosity excited as to an author who, previously unheard of, has suddenly become the foremost word-painter of active fighti...

• May-2015
• / General Fiction
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By Blow and Kiss is a novel written by Boyd Cable, a pseudonym for Ernest Andrew Ewart, a British author and war correspondent. The book, published in 1919, is a fictionalized account of the experiences of British soldiers during World War I. It foll...

• Jun-2015
• / Historical
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By manhood blood of birth and brood, That loves the fight that wins to love; By breath we drew of woman, too, That sets the prize aught else above; By that and this, by blow and kiss, By Nature beaten to her knees, The prize that’s wet with blood a...

• Jul-2015
• / General Fiction
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Boyd Cable was the pseudonym of Ernest Andrew Ewart (1878-1943), a Scottish émigré to Australia. His identity was only widely known after his death. His works include: Action Front (1916), Air Men o' War (1918), Between the Lines (1915), By...

• Dec-2015
• / General Fiction
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Air Men o' War by Boyd Cable. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world li...

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In the midst of World War I, writer Boyd Cable carved out a niche for himself by collecting factual nuggets from the front lines of the conflict and using them as the foundation for gritty, action-packed short stories. The volume Action Front collect...