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Despatch Rider - The Experiences of a British Army Motorcycle Despatch Rider During the Opening Battles of the Great War in Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Despatch Rider - The Experiences of a British Army Motorcycle Despatch Rider During the Opening Battles of the Great War in Europe (Hardcover, New)
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A young British soldier who went to war on two wheels
When the Great War broke out, the author of this book decided to
leave his university studies and join the struggle. What attracted
him immediately was the potential to combine his military service
with his love of motorcycles and so it was that he found himself
one of a select group of motorcycle despatch riders within the 5th
Division of the 'Contemptible Little Army' that went to France and
Belgium to halt the overwhelming numerical superiority of the
advancing German Army. This book, an account of his experiences in
the early months of the war, tells the story of a conflict of fluid
manoeuvre and dogged retreat. Together with congested roads filled
with military traffic and refugees, the ever present threat of
artillery barrage and changing front lines the author had to
constantly be aware of the presence of the deadly Uhlans-mounted
German Lancers-who were always ready to pitch horseflesh against
horsepower.
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