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Voices From the Trenches - Life & Death on the Western Front (Paperback, New)
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Voices From the Trenches - Life & Death on the Western Front (Paperback, New)
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List price R410
Loot Price R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
You Save R73 (18%)
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A treasure-trove of previously unpublished letters and first hand
accounts from British 'tommies' of life and death in the trenches
during the First World War. This is the story of the men who held
the front line in France and Flanders. It is a graphic account of a
strange and seemingly unending style of life and death in all their
facets. It is a unique approach, an anthology interwoven with a
continuous commentary so that the reader is always kept aware of
the context of the writing. The balanced and un-emotive approach
cannot, however, fail to leave the reader deeply moved. Domestic
life in the line: accommodation, food and drink, wiring and
carrying, the whole day and night routine are investigated, as are
the operational aspects of trench life - raiding and patrolling in
no-man's-land and the German lines. Actual battle experience is
also featured, but one of the most interesting parts of the book is
devoted to the attitudes of front line soldiers, officers and their
men, to each other; to the staff; to their Allies; to wounds; to
fear; to God; to the sheer horror of it all. There is also a strong
sense of humour about some of the material included - often a
necessary antidote to the appalling conditions, but it should not
be thought that everyone involved hated it. Some young soldiers
found in it experience and responsibility beyond their years, while
the professionals went to war with cool enthusiasm. The aim of this
all encompassing portrayal of the front line is to grip the reader
such that it cannot be put down, and that by the time it is
finished he or she will have a genuine understanding of what it was
like to fight in the trenches of the Western Front.
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