John Horrocks revisits John A Lee’s novel Civilian into Soldier.
“Whoosh – the good old Christian bayonet”: this is the scribbled annotation to a 1937 press clipping in one of John A Lee’s scrapbooks. He was commenting on an editorial in the Wairarapa Standard. It said his novel about WWI, Civilian into Soldier, was “unfit to be placed upon the shelves of a respectable library or in the hands of a decent woman”.
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