- Hardcover
- Publisher: jane's (1987)
- ASIN: B005D6JUV6
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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At the outbreak of the Great War I was Company Sergeant-Major of B Company, 2nd Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
At the outbreak of the Great War I was Company Sergeant-Major of B Company, 2nd Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers. Read the first page
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Briefly, this is one of the best books I've ever read on any subject. It gives a real, day to day experience of serving in the First World War, and though written from the officer perspective it gives a clearer view of life in the ranks than you often get from autobiographies by enlisted men (who may have lacked the literary skills to describe their experiences). It conveys the sense of regimental pride, alongside the full horror of battle. It even shows what life was like for the local people trying to survive behind the lines. There are some very funny episodes and some very poignant and bitter ones, all jumbled up together. As a previous reviewer wrote, if you only ever read one book on the First World War, this should be the one.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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For all the thousands of pages that have been written about the Great War, there are few better than this book. It is a poignant, funny, heart warming and upsetting book all rolled into one. From first hand accounts of day to day life in the trenches, to moving stories of heroism and comradeship behind the lines, I have yet to read a book on World War One that combines so much atmospheric description with factual accounts and still leaves the reader craving for more. There are incidents that are funny, there are incidents that are sad, and it is the combination of light hearted recollection, mixed with painful descriptions of trench life and death that make this book a work of genius.
If you only have one book that describes daily life in the trenches, combined with witty humour and perceptual observations then you cannot do better than this one.
If you only have one book that describes daily life in the trenches, combined with witty humour and perceptual observations then you cannot do better than this one.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read many many books on the subject of the Great War, this book surpasses them all. It is a compelling account of the life of an infantry battalion, at times sad at other times funny. I highly recommend that the introduction is read in full, this will assist in gaining more enjoyment when reading the main event,a brilliant read.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
I should have bought a copy years ago!
Being more interested in the history of the Welsh Regiment, I hadn't really looked to buy a copy of this book, which chronicles the History of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Welch... Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2010 by S. John
Fascinating Read
This book was recommended to me by a friend with a similar interest in WW1, we are not experts!
I have read very few books in my life from cover to cover but this book... Read more
I have read very few books in my life from cover to cover but this book... Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2010 by C. Heald
Big but good
Not quite a classic but lovely all the same. Should perhaps be 'the war the infantry officer knew' but that's the way of things.
Published on 4 Nov 2009 by Dermie X
The definitive account
When I read this book, what struck me most was how far removed my own 21st century attitudes towards life, death, service, etc, were from those of the author. Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2009 by Gordon J. Mckay
Hell on Earth
I started to read this while visiting The Somme. A very long, moving account of life in Royal Welch Fusiliers in WWI. The compiler was their medical officer. Read more
Published on 4 May 2008 by G. J. Weeks
One of the great Great War books
This must be amongst the very best books to emerge from 1914-1918. What it has that many memoirs do not is a certain objective detachment, where it is needed, and an ability to... Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2007 by Stephen Bull
The Best Single Book on the War
Wholeheartedly support others comments. Dunn and his host of collaborators give the best general picture of what 'really happened' of the hundreds of first hand accounts. Read more
Published on 19 Jan 2007 by P. Grant
Question.
I have read many WW1 books. The Unknown Soldier by Neil Hanson, The Trench, Britains Last Tommies and Boy Soldiers of the Great War, all by Richard van Emden. Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2006 by Berit H. Grude
Spooky, Informative, just right
What a book - I had looked forward to reading this for the last two years, saved it for this year's Summer holiday in France and Belgium (! Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2000
Very illuminating
First class book. Illuminating revelation of trials and triumphs of BEF regiment both on and off the battlefield. Includes sections by Sassoon and Graves. Very interesting.
Published on 16 Nov 1999 by woodwar@globalnet.co.uk
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