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Vinegar Tom wrote:One of the best of those officer class first world war memoirs, but I think it is pipped by Edmund Blunden's Undertones of war. Both great reads though.
RDR wrote:Vinegar Tom wrote:One of the best of those officer class first world war memoirs, but I think it is pipped by Edmund Blunden's Undertones of war. Both great reads though.
I've not read Blunden's book, though I have heard of it, must try and get a hold of a copy.
viceroy wrote:RDR wrote:Vinegar Tom wrote:One of the best of those officer class first world war memoirs, but I think it is pipped by Edmund Blunden's Undertones of war. Both great reads though.
I've not read Blunden's book, though I have heard of it, must try and get a hold of a copy.
I have read both books and they are excellent. Of course both writers were well educated and middle class and served as officers. Not that I would want to disparage them in any way for this, but as a counterpoint from the Other Ranks I can recommend: With A Machine Gun To Cambrai by a man called George Coppard. He lied about his age and enlisted as a private in 1914, serving in the Machine Gun Corps all through the war, eventually becoming an NCO. I read this book years ago and it is almost certainly out of print, although you could probably find a secondhand paperback copy on Amazon if you were interested. More recently I read Storm Of Steel by Ernst Junger, a no holds barred account of life in the trenches on the German side. This is actually a very famous book, but also a controversial one as he comes pretty close to glorifying the whole business.
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