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Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
NOT ONLY... beer in Berlin, absinthe in Prague, baths in Budapest,
Dracula in Transylvania, trenches in Gallipoli, a plethora of
Greco-Roman ruins, fairy chimneys in Capadocia, lost cities, souks
and castles in Syria, angry Kurds, absent Armenians, Mounts Nemrut
and Ararat, depressed in Iran, harassed in the Stans, filthy
Chinese food and filthier loos, the Wall and the Warriors... BUT
ALSO... a lost car in Calcutta, road rage in India, charred corpses
in Nepal, Everest in Tibet, the Potala Palace, chanting monks,
appalling roads, disgusting food, unspeakable bogs, magical Mount
Kailash, mayhem in the Stans, Stalingrad, Crimea, the Light
Brigade, Auschwitz and in Bruges... "Every traveller should make it
his life's work to leave Swindon... few go to such extremes..." Dom
Joly. "Lies, it's all lies..." Chairman Mao. The author is an Old
Etonian, Cambridge graduate, retired investment banker and
completely unrepentant.
Oswald Harcourt-Davis joined the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1916
to become a despatch rider. He was allocated a Triumph motorcycle
at Abbeville France on 18th July 1916 and was attached to the
ANZACs for the duration of the war which saw him motorcycling
around the Somme and Ypres Salient areas. He won his military medal
at Messines.
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