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Action Front (Hardcover)
Boyd Cable; Edited by 1stworld Library
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R582
Discovery Miles 5 820
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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support
our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online
at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I make no apology for having
followed in this book the same plan as in my other one, "Between
the Lines," of taking extracts from the official despatches as
"texts" and endeavoring to show something of what these brief
messages cover, because so many of my own friends, and so many more
unknown friends amongst the reviewers, expressed themselves so
pleased with the plan that I feel its repetition is justified.
There were some who complained that my last book was in parts too
grim and too terrible, and no doubt the same complaint may lie
against this one. To that I can only reply that I have found it
impossible to write with any truth of the Front without the writing
being grim, and in writing my other book I felt it would be no bad
thing if Home realized the grimness a little better. But now there
are so many at Home whose nearest and dearest are in the trenches,
and who require no telling of the horrors of the war, that I have
tried here to show there is a lighter side to war, to let them know
that we have our relaxations, and even find occasion for jests, in
the course of our business.
Twenty seven stories of the men who fought the War of the Trenches
There are many well known authors of the fiction of war who have
relied upon their imaginations to create their fiction. Not so the
less familiar author of this book, who reveals in his introduction
that these tales not only concerned the actions of men on the front
line, but that he-as one of them-wrote these riveting and immediate
stories within the sound of the German guns. His method was to take
the often sparse and matter of fact nature of communiqu?'s and
officers' reports and paint in for his reader the vital back story
that is the authentic personal experience of war with which he was
so familiar. Those interested in the Great War will find much in
these stories, based in part on fact and gathered from two volumes
published during the First World War itself, to engage them.
Available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket for
collectors.
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