By The Author of "Disenchantment""They are saying very beautiful things about Fiery Particles.... We have no keener mind, no more accomplished writer than Montague" - Shan Bullock's London Letter in the Chicago Evening PostCollection of World War I themed stories. Nine stories, and the first of the author’s two short story collections. Selected as one of the year's distinguished collections of short stories by Edward J. O'Brien of “The Best Short Stories of 1923”.
Charles Edward Montague (1867–1928) was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays published in the Manchester Guardian. Although forty-seven with a wife and seven children, Montague volunteered to join the British Army in 1914. He worked in Military Intelligence and for two years had the task of writing propaganda for the British Army and censoring articles.
After the war, Montague returned to the Manchester Guardian and stayed there until he retired in 1925. He wrote several books including the novels A Hind Let Loose and Rough Justice, and a collection of essays, Disenchantment (1922) about the First World War.