A Very Unimportant Officer: Life and Death on the Somme and at Passchendaele
By Unknown Author.
Description
Rediscovered after 80 years gathering dust on a family bookshelf and first brough to public attention on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, A Very Uniportant Officer is a detailed and intimate account of the experience of an ordinary officer on the front line in France and Flanders throughout 1916 and 1917. Recruited to The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1915 at the age of 33, Captain Stewart went 'over the top' many times, outliving 'so many better men', as he says with typical hunmility. Through his vivd testimony we learn of the mud ('more like thick slime�...
ISBN(s)
0340977116, 9780340977118
