The War the infantry knew, 1914-1919 : a chronicle of service in France and Belgium with the Second Battalion, His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, founded on personal records, recollections and reflections / assembled, edited and partly written by one of their medical officers.
Contributor(s): Dunn, J. C. (James Churchill) [editor]
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BookLondon ; Cardinal : 1989Copyright date: ©1987Description: 613 pages : [43] pages of plates illustrations ; maps ; ports 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0747403724 (paperback).Subject(s): Great Britain. Army. Royal Welch Fusiliers. Battalion, 2nd -- History | Great Britain. Army -- Biography | World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front | Military history -- Great Britain | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, English | Soldiers -- Great Britain -- BiographyDDC classification: 940.41440922
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 940.41440922 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00110354 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
in 1938, it gained a reputation as an outstanding account of an infantry battalion's experience on the Western Front' Daily Telegraph ' I have been waiting for a long time for someone to republish this classic. It is one of the most interesting and revealing books of its type and is a genuinely truthful and fascinating picture of the war as it was for the infantry' John Keegan 'A remarkably coherent narrative of the battalion's experiences in diary form . . . a moving historical record which deserves to be added to the select list of outstanding accounts of the First World War' Times Literary Supplement
Includes index.
Written by J.C. Dunn.
with an introduction by Keith Simpson
Includes index