About Peregrine Acland Peregrine Acland (1891-1963) joined the Canadian Army in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War and quickly rose to the rank of an officer. He took part in the great battles of the Somme, which he describes vividly in All Else Is Folly. Books by Peregrine Acland The Voyageur Classic Canadian Fiction 7-Book Bundle All Else Is Folly / Pauline Johnson / The Town Below / Self Condemned / Storm Below / The Yellow Briar / Maria Chapdelaine by (author) Peregrine Acland, Pauline Johnson, Roger Lemelin, Hugh Garner, Patrick Slater, Louis Hemon & Wyndham Lewis foreword by Ford Madox Ford introduction by Brian Busby, Michael Gnarowski, Paul Stuewe & Allan Pero translated by W.H. Blake All Else Is Folly A Tale of War and Passion by (author) Peregrine Acland introduction by Brian Busby & James R. Calhoun foreword by Ford Madox Ford