Blog with world war 1 stories scans

"Field Punishment No.1" is a blog that gather togethers some research on Canada’s war literature.

The author is a book collector that became curious about these writers and wanted to know more about them than was contained in their brief bios in the Canadian Encyclopedia and literary guides (where those existed at all) –so he started digging.

Sound familiar? That's how i got into this blog.

Anyhow, there's some interesting stories that he's scanned from different pulp magazines, all by Canadian about soldiers in World War 1. One of them is from Adventure magazine, and the rest are from War Stories, a magazine published by Dell - the same Dell that went on to be a major player in the paperback market, and are still around as a division of Random House.

See all his posts that have story scans here: https://peregrineacland.wordpress.com/tag/pulp/

And as usual, say hello there :-)

Patriotism, Pigs, Pendexter and Mundy - How Talbot Mundy and Hugh Pendexter helped win World War 1

When i was looking up information on Hugh Pendexter, i came across this article on how the town of Norway, Maine contributed to the war effort in World War 1. Hugh Pendexter and Talbot Mundy were both residents of the town at the time, and they were both drivers (literally in Mundy's case) of the war effort as well, helping in growing more food, recruiting soldiers and raising money.

The article is from Everybody's magazine, and has some interesting information on Mundy promoting pig breeding, as opposed to the pig sticking that he wrote about in some of the stories set in India he wrote for Adventure.