Booktopia - A Month at the Front : The Diary of an Unknown Soldier, Unknown Soldier, 9780522854138

A Month at the Front : The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

By: Unknown Soldier

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ISBN: 9780522854138

Format: Hardcover
Published: April 2007

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Booktopia Comments: A fantastic gift or for any one interested in Military History. The photographic reproductions of the journals and photos are fantastic. It is a small hardcover title with not too many pages but it really is a worthwhile addition to the home library. Will be well received and at the price it really is great value. It is published by Melbourne University's Miegunyah Press and they always produce high quality books. Highly recommended.

Discovered at the bottom of a box of books recently donated to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this war journal vividly tells the story of a young World War I soldier and his experiences at the Front in the summer of 1917 in his own words.

The anonymous author candidly describes his daily life: dodging shells to fetch meals from the rations cart; his regiment lost on a march, straying perilously near enemy lines; the daily distribution of rum; the soar of shells ('whiz bangs') above his head; communicating by sign with a captured German soldier living in his trench; sleeping in snatches of ten or fifteen minutes; and always, the endless mud.

The introduction traces the author's progress across the battlefields of Flanders as he and his regiment, the 12th East Surreys, move deeper into enemy territory, suffering heavy casualties and fighting against remarkable odds. One by one, the author's comrades fall away until he, one of the last survivors of his group, narrowly avoids death, only to be captured.

This poignant and moving account, never before published, is narrated with a keen sense of observation, bringing to life the sights, sounds, smells, and horrors of war.