Harry’s War Harry Drinkwater Ebury Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

‘I Saw Several Fellows Fall One Fellow Coughing Up Blood And All The Time Bullets Were Hacking About Me I Ran For 70 Yards Carrying With Lewis Gun Things Had Brought Dropped Breathless Into A Shell Hole Headlong Onto German Who Been Dead Months ’Harold Drinkwater Was Not Supposed To Go War He Told Half An Inch Too Short But Determined Fight King Country Found Battalion That Would Take Him Soon On His Way Trenches Of Somme As Dragged Harry Most Men Joined Killed Around Somehow Survived Soldiers Forbidden From Keeping Diary So Wrote In Secret Recording Horrendous Conditions Constant Fear Well Pleasure At Receiving Officer\ S Commission Joy When They Escaped Italian Front Trench Raid Which Awarded Military Cross Writes Such Immediacy It Is Easy Forget Hundred Years Have Passed By Turns Wry Exhausted Annoyed Resigned Often Amazed Be Alive Never Before Published Harry\ Moving Testament Man\ Struggle Keep Humanity Face Unimaginable Violence Σελίδες: 416 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm