A new edition of Philip Child s great Canadian novel of the First World War. A horrifying description of war as embodied in the vain and inglorious futility of World War I, "God s Sparrows" is a novel rich in compassion and firm in its faith in the human spirit. Philip Child created a Canadian family saga that is still raw a lifetime later. As his characters struggle to maintain their humanity under agonizing circumstances, Child s book, first published in 1937, remains stirring testimony to their resilience. It offers profound insight into the experience of the Great War, as not just a global catastrophe, but also as a crucible in which the whole of his nation found itself tested."