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The Unreturning Army (Paperback)
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The Unreturning Army (Paperback)
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A classic account of one man's experiences on the Western Front,
now republished in a revised and expanded edition in anticipation
of the centenary of the First World War.
Nearly 100 years have passed since the guns blazed in the
ever-deepening mud of Passchendaele. Yet places such as Ypres, the
Marne and the Somme can never remain mere names in a chronicle of
war -- they are heavy with meaning as the setting for the
near-destruction of a generation of men. It is this aura of tragedy
that makes Huntly Gordon's book -- consisting mainly of his own
letters written home from the front - such a potent memoir. Gordon
was a typical product of his generation -- sensitive, intelligent,
unpretentious; capable of detached, trenchant and reasoned
judgement. As the glorious summer of 1914 drew to a close, it was
difficult for the 16 year-old Gordon to realize that the world he
had planned and prepared for at Clifton College was a world in
which he now had to prepare for war. By 1916 he had left school,
and after an intensive and ill-balanced course at the Royal
Military Academy, Woolwich, he was commissioned as a second
lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery. In June 1917, he was at the
Ypres Salient, getting his 'baptism' at Hell Fire Corner in one of
those intensive artillery duels that formed the prologue to
Passchendaele in July 1917 before being engaged for six weeks in
the havoc of the battle itself. In the opening months of 1918, his
battery was to fight a series of rearguard actions near Baupaume
during the brutal German offensive of March 21. A transfer to a
quiet sector to rest and refit was eventually possible, but they
arrived there just in time to face the final German onslaught of
April 12.
In "The Unreturning Army" Huntly Gordon recalls his experiences of
a tumultuous conflict and field of battle that seem almost
inconceivable to us now. And his words, for the most part written
at the time, have an immediacy, freshness and poignancy that will
not fail to enlighten and astonish and move the reader of today.
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