The Fateful Battle Line. The Great War Journals and Sketches of Captain Henry Ogle MC - Glover, Michael
The Great War Journals and Sketches of Captain Henry Ogle MC
KORTE INHOUD
"Henry Ogle was a trained artist, and one who, in his writing, fused the vividness of the painter's eye for detail with a writer's precision and awareness. Commissioned from the ranks, twice wounded, his gallantry rewarded with the Military Cross, he endured four years of war; if the experience seared him, it never took from him his humanity. Front-line, support and reserve trenches; raids, patrols and work details; outposts and piquets; hospitals and base areas; French and Belgian towns and villages; leave back home in England; the tragic landscape of Flanders; weapons, artillery, transport, draft and riding animals; above all his fellow soldiers - Henry Ogle faithfully, and often wittily, recorded the day-to-day minutiae, as well as the sudden shattering moments, of vast industrial armies locked in the last of the great siege wars. In doing so, and in his accompanying text, he demonstrated that the enduring legacy of the Great War lay in the spirit of the men who fought it."--Back of book.
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[Auteur: Glover, Michael] [Pagina's: 216] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, London] [Jaar: 2014] [Titel: The Fateful Battle Line. The Great War Journals and Sketches of Captain Henry Ogle MC]
