Download or read book Letters from the Front 1914 1918 written by John Laffin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from the Trenches written by Jacqueline Wadsworth and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families.??Letters from the Trenches reveals how people really thought and felt during the conflict and covers all social classes and groups Ð from officers to conscripts and women at home to conscientious objectors.??Voices within the book include Sergeant John Adams, 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers, who wrote in May 1917:'For the day we get our letter from home is a red Letter day in the history of the soldier out here. It is the only way we can hear what is going on. The slender thread between us and the homeland.'??Private Stanley Goodhead, who served with one of the Manchester Pals battalion, wrote home in 1916: 'I came out of the trenches last night after being in 4 days. You have no idea what 4 days in the trenches means...The whole time I was in I had only about 2 hours sleep and that was in snatches on the firing step. What dugouts there are, are flooded with mud and water up to the knees and the rats hold swimming galas in them...We are literally caked with brown mud and it is in all?our food, tea etc.'??Jacqueline Wadsworth skilfully uses these letters to tell the human story of the First World War Ð what mattered to Britain's servicemen and their feelings about the war; how the conflict changed people; and how life continued on the Home Front.
Download or read book Letters from the Front 1914 1918 written by and published by Gwasg y Bwthyn. This book was released on 2015 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Voices of the Great War written by D. Omissi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian soldiers served in France from 1914 to 1918. This book is a selection of their letters. By turns poignant, funny, and almost unbearably moving, these documents vividly evoke the world of the Western Front - as seen through 'subaltern' Indian eyes. The letters also bear eloquent witness to the sepoys' often unsettling encounter with Europe, and with European culture. This book helps to map the imaginative landscape of South Asia's warrior-peasant communities.
Download or read book Letters from the Front written by Kevin R. H. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from the Front 1914 1919 written by Maurice Arthur Pope and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters From the Front Letters and Diaries from the BEF in Flanders and France 1914 1918 written by Kevin Smith and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation raised on the British Empire confronted the unexpected horrors of modern war. Never were a nation's expectations so different from the coming clash of the First World War. Expecting a vigorous romp to victory, soldiers endured a brutal quagmire. Presenting letters & diaries of soldiers themselves, many unseen for nearly a hundred years, Smith allows men from Field Marshall "Douggy" Haig to plain Private Smith to have a clear voice. With enough narrative to recall how the Great War unfolded, a wealth of vivid detail brings the miserable life in the trenches back to life. What began with high hopes and horses ended with disillusion and tanks. From the build up at the beginning of the war until the immediate post-war reduction, Letters from the Front: Letters and Diaries from the BEF in Flanders and France 1914-1918 is enlivened with fascinating details and makes a moving, entertaining and informative read.
Download or read book A Scholar s Letters from the Front written by Stephen Henry Hewett and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Good Soldier written by N. P. Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters Written From The English Front In France Between September 1914 And March 1915 written by Captain Sir Edward Hamilton Westrow Hulse and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Sir Edward Hamilton Westrow Hulse, now lying in Rue-David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, a fallen officer of the Scots Guards who died bravely trying to go to the rescue of his commanding officer during the battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915. Perhaps no further trace of him would now exist, bar family and friends, were it not for these most interesting letters that were collected and only printed for a select distribution; however, they attained a far greater readership due to their interesting and elegant style. The writer of these letters had a sense both of perspective and of humour,—without which all records are but as the dry bones of the events they chronicle. For example, the rapid and careless pen-sketches that describe the work of a night raid, the reception of a prisoner, the excitement of a sniping party, the confusion at Havre, and a dozen other incidents of that crowded half-year are every one of them admirable. But there is something else in these letters which is of even greater interest. Without hesitation it may be said that in the fourteen pages under the date December 28th we have the most keenly noted, vigorous and dramatic description that ever has or ever will be written of what from a psychological point of view has been the most extraordinary event of the war,—the Christmas Truce of 1914. In its mere literary aspect it is as perfect as anything written from the front: and as a human document it is of even greater value.
Download or read book A Soldier of France to His Mother written by Eugène Emmanuel Lemercier and published by Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Company. This book was released on 1917 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Good Soldier a Selection of Soldiers Letters 1914 1918 written by N P Ed Dawson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Letters From A Lost Generation written by Mark Bostridge and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915. This selection of letters, written between 1913 & 1918, between Vera Brittain and four young men - her fiance Roland Leighton, her brother Edward and their close friends Victor Richardson & Geoffrey Thurlow present a remarkable and profoundly moving portrait of five young people caught up in the cataclysm of total war. Roland, 'Monseigneur', is the 'leader' & his letters most clearly trace the path leading from idealism to disillusionment. Edward, ' Immaculate of the Trenches', was orderly & controlled, down even to his attire. Geoffrey, the 'non-militarist at heart' had not rushed to enlist but put aside his objections to the war for patriotism's sake. Victor on the other hand, possessed a very sweet character and was known as 'Father Confessor'. An important historical testimony telling a powerful story of idealism, disillusionment and personal tragedy.
Download or read book A Scholar s Letters from the Front written by Stephen Henry Hewett and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... To F. F. Urquhart March 1, 1916. I wrote some little while ago to Cyril, giving him an account of the routine here. Doubtless he showed you some of my letter, which after all was not very exciting: well, we are still at the same old round--though it may be broken soon, --so that shall be my excuse for a little bavardage and a letter of generalities. Your "Spirit of Man" has been invaluable, and I have begun on it again: it certainly goes up into the trenches with me. On the way out I bought Dostoieffsky's " Le Crime et le Chatiment," which has kept me absorbed ever since, though I have finished it now. It reminds one of' Le Disciple, ' and is at least as good: though everybody does such impossible things--e.g.: "La jeune fille poussa un cri.--' Hum!' dit Raskolnikoff.--" although ' Hum' may doubtless mean something more in French--and there is such a plentiful lack of gentlemanly behaviour. Still, I suppose such novels are not really morbid. By the way one has plenty of time to spare out here, even if one does usually spend it in sociability; so any old book of an improving nature would be welcome at any old time, and could probably be returned to you intact. It is curious how, realising as one does that this is not "the life for a man like me," and having as one does any amount of leisure, one is nevertheless assimilated to the atmosphere that one finds: and, instead of writing verses or very serious letters, or reading hard, or doing a praeparatio mortis, one just plods through the monotony of parades and looks for refreshment in much riding and bridge, and even has long talks of Varsity life and arguments in the Varsity manner with the Oxonians and Tabs with whom I am providentially associated. After all, if the whole war--as we...
Download or read book The Void of War written by Reginald Farrer and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First World War Poems from the Front written by Paul O'Prey and published by Imperial War Museum. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the worst horrors of modern trench warfare a small handful of soldiers and nurses created a body of poetry that is so vivid and intense that one hundred years later it has engraved itself on our national consciousness. This anthology focuses on those poets who were on the front line, from the famous Sassoon, Owens and Graves, to nurses like Vera Brittain. The poems are accompanied by a brief and accessible introduction, which sets the context for a reader new to the poems, as well as short biographical profiles of the poets.
Download or read book Letters from the Great War written by Anne Stamford and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters written by a young officer to his aunt describing his experiences at the front during the Great War. 1914 - 1918
