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Rifleman Macgill's War - A Soldier of the London Irish During the Great War in Europe Including the Amateur Army, the Red Horizon & the Great P (Hardcover, New)
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Rifleman Macgill's War - A Soldier of the London Irish During the Great War in Europe Including the Amateur Army, the Red Horizon & the Great P (Hardcover, New)
Series: Recollections of the Great War
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Total price: R842
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A poet's war in the mud of the First World War in Europe. After the
outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Irishman Patrick MacGill
enlisted in a territorial army unit the 2nd London Irish Battalion
as a rifleman. His claim at the time was that he and its colonel
were the only true Irishmen serving in it. MacGill, already a well
regarded author and poet, would record his experiences from
training to his unit's embarkation to France and then onwards to
his early experiences of trench warfare and finally to the time of
the great attacks which included the battle of Loos and in which he
was seriously wounded. During the course of the war-which he
survived-MacGill wrote several books on the subject, but three-The
Amateur Army, The Red Horizon and The Great Push, directly concern
his time with the London Irish and it is these books that have here
been combined-in their entirety-by the Leonaur Editors to create
this single comprehensive volume of his life as an ordinary
rifleman in the front line. MacGill employs his talent to great
effect in this volume so the reader is not only taken into the
heart of the war through his sensitivity to the description of
events, emotions, sights and details but also because of his
ability to convey realistic dialogue that portrays the various
types of the army in the trenches authentically and often with
great affection and humour.
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