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Into Battle. A Seventeen-Year-Old Joins Kitchener's Army

Categorie	WO I
Boeknummer	#208709
Titel	Into Battle. A Seventeen-Year-Old Joins Kitchener's Army
Auteur	Parker, E.W.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Jaar van uitgave	2013
ISBN10	1781591555
ISBN13	9781781591550
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Written well over 90 years ago while the experiences of youth were still fresh in the authors mind, this is the story of a seventeen-year-old boy from the time he joined Kitcheners Army, as one of the first hundred thousand in 1914, until he found himself in hospital - an officer with the Military Cross - recovering from his last wound, on the day of the Armistice, 11 November, 1918. In no way a formal record of the great and terrible events it describes, this is a purely personal, almost private, account. It is a plain, unvarnished tale - and even more effective for that - of heroism, and the horror peculiar to trench warfare of the First World War. Interspersed with moments of pity, humor and a deep response to natural beauty and peace out of the firing line, it is a record, which in i... (Lees verder)ts details, direct simplicity and manner of telling, comes nearer to the truth than many more ambitious accounts.
Pagina's	112
Conditie	Nieuw
Prijs	€ 8,00

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