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Six Weeks - The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War (Paperback)
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Six Weeks - The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War (Paperback)
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The extraordinary story of British junior officers in the First
World War, who led their men out of the trenches and faced a life
expectancy of six weeks. During the Great War, many boys went
straight from the classroom to the most dangerous job in the world
- that of junior officer on the Western Front. Although desperately
aware of how many of their predecessors had fallen before them,
nearly all stepped forward, unflinchingly, to do their duty. The
average life expectancy of a subaltern in the trenches was a mere
six weeks. In this remarkable book, John Lewis-Stempel focuses on
the forgotten men who truly won Britain's victory in the First
World War - the subalterns, lieutenants and captains of the Army,
the leaders in the trenches, the first 'over the top', the last to
retreat. Basing his narrative on a huge range of first-person
accounts, including the poignant letters and diaries sent home or
to their old schools, the author reveals what motivated these
boy-men to act in such an extraordinary, heroic way. He describes
their brief, brilliant lives in and out of the trenches, the
tireless ways they cared for their men, and how they tried to
behave with honour in a world where their values and codes were
quite literally being shot to pieces.
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