Till the Trumpet Sounds Again. The Scots Guards 1914-19 in Their Own Words (2 volumes) - Nicol, Randall
'Great Shadows', August 1914 - July 1916
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This is a story of soldiers at war against the background the two battalions of the Scots Guards who served in Belgium and France from 1914 to 1918. The author's purpose is to display - by getting in amongst them - what they knew, saw, heard, felt and experienced around them and who they were as people. It is clear that the author has attempted to look and listen mostly through these men's eyes and ears - and sometimes through those of others who watched and listened nearby. In conveying how the war appeared to them, the author has not sought to achieve any wider view - nor to explain more than what is considered to be essential. What went on when the men were not in the trenches or fighting a battle holds just as much interest as when they were. The book is written in a chronological, narrative form - using as a basis the war diaries of the battalions, and supplemented from August 1915 by the two volumes of Cuthbert Headlam's History of the Guards Division in the Great War 1915-1918. The main content of the ...
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2016Uitgever: Helion & Company Limited648 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1911096060ISBN-13: 9781911096061Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Volume 1: 'Great Shadows', August 1914 - July 1916, 9781911096061; Volumes 2: 'Vast Tragedy', August 1916 - March 1919, 9781911096078; 608+447pp.; Two new books [Auteur: Nicol, Randall] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Helion & Company Limited] [Jaar: 2016] [Titel: Till the Trumpet Sounds Again. The Scots Guards 1914-19 in Their Own Words (2 volumes)]
