
- 288 pages
- English
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Soldier from the Wars Returning
About this book
Soldier from the Wars Returning is one of the truest, most profound and readable personal accounts of the Great War. The author waited nearly fifty years before writing it, and the perspective of history enhances its value. He writes only of the battles in which he participated (including the Somme and Passchendaele), though his comments on affairs beyond his knowledge at the time, through later study and reflection, are pungent and stimulating. Among other topics, he describes the politicians, the generals, Kitchener's Army, Hore-Belisha, German gas attacks, Picardy, dug-outs, tanks, the sex-life of the soldier, scrounging. trench kits and the censoring of letters. The author saw the First World War from below, as a fighting soldier in a line regiment. In the Second World War he served as a staff officer liaising between the Army and the RAF; serving two tours at RAF Bomber Command HQ at High Wycombe. This equipped him to draw forthright comparisons between the conduct of the two wars.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- ‘WE TALKED OF WAR’
- Preface
- 1 - Before the War
- 2 - The B.E.F. and the New Armies
- 3 - How to join the Army
- 4 - The First Year
- 5 - Kitchener’s Army
- 6 - The Old Front Line
- 7 - Cushy Trenches
- 8 - ‘We and They’
- 9 - The Battle of the Somme
- 10 - Not so cushy trenches
- 11 - Open fighting
- 12 - Some random recollections
- 13 - Passchendaele
- 14 - Soldiers and Statesmen, 1917—18
- 15 - England in 1918
- 16 - How the war ended
- 17 - In Italy after the Armistice
- 18 - ‘News, Lads, our Wars are done’
- 19 - After the War
- Epilogue
- APPENDIX A
- APPENDIX B
- Index