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Brothers in arms : the unique collection of letters and photographs from two brothers at the Front during the first World War /
Hidden away in the back of an old desk drawer was a dusty pile of school-style exercise books. In them were the recollections of a young officer who had fought with the Essex Regiment in the First World War from the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915, through the mud and misery of Ypres, to see victor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Barnsley, South Yorkshire :
Pen & Sword Military,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: 'England had indeed been unprepared!'; Chapter 2: 'It was my first taste of any real sort of war atmosphere'; Chapter 3: 'There's a tremendous din going on, like a huge thunder storm, as there's just now an artillery duel over our heads'; Chapter 4: 'The parapets and parados here were thick with dead bodies'; Chapter 5: 'It was a roaring, raging, swirl of destruction'; Chapter 6: 'Hour after hour the tempest raged as huge shells tore the earth up'
- Chapter 7: 'I know a little more about chemistry now'Chapter 8: 'The continuous angry flash looked very ominous'; Chapter 9: 'Then the downpour of steel started, a veritable drum-fire, almost blotting everything out'; Chapter 10: 'There is a German sniper over there who has just parted my hair for me'; Chapter 11: 'I scrambled back through the wire, tearing my clothes and my hands, hearing bullets whizzing past me'; Chapter 12: 'Fancy being shot at like this in England!'; Chapter 13: 'Brother Boche has had a bad time all round'
- Chapter 14: 'There were several cases of men being missed in the dark by their comrades, and actually drowned in the mud'Chapter 15: 'Nothing daunted we moved on, men dropping faster here and there and the gaps being filled up from those behind'; Chapter 16: 'I am also beginning to feel the effects of this war especially in the dark, when a gun fires not very far away or a sniper skims the parapet'