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Harry’s War
Engelsk Paperback
Harry’s War
Engelsk Paperback

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‘I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up and dropped breathless into a shell hole headlong onto a German who had been dead for months.’

Harold Drinkwater was not supposed to go to war. He was told he was half an inch too short. But, determined to fight for king and country, he found a battalion that would take him and was soon on his way to the trenches of the Somme. As the war dragged on, Harry saw most of the men he joined up with killed around him. But, somehow, he survived.

Soldiers were forbidden from keeping a diary so Harry wrote his in secret, recording the horrendous conditions and constant fear, as well as his pleasure at receiving his officer''s commission, the joy of his men when they escaped the trenches for the Italian Front and the trench raid for which he was awarded the Military Cross.

Harry writes with such immediacy it is easy to forget that a hundred years have passed. He is by turns wry, exhausted, annoyed, resigned and often amazed to be alive. Never before published, Harry''s War is a moving testament to one man''s struggle to keep his humanity in the face of unimaginable violence.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
416
ISBN-13:
9780091957223
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0091957222
Udg. Dato:
31 jul 2014
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
131mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Ebury Publishing
Oplagsdato:
31 jul 2014
Forfatter(e):
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