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From Messines to Third Ypres

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From Messines to Third Ypres
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Author(s): Thomas Floyd
Date Published: 04/2007
Page Count: 192
Softcover ISBN-13: 978-1-84677-140-8
Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1-84677-144-6

This is not a book about the broad sweep of war. Although the title mentions two major battles of the Great War, this account is, in fact, the story of just a few weeks between May 1917 and July 1917 as experienced by a subaltern of the Lancashire Fusiliers. It is a detailed account where personalities and small events seem to fill its pages to become tellingly significant—whole lifetimes seem to pass in months. Life in the trenches is recorded with all its dangers, tragedies and discomforts punctuated by lighter moments, as we share the inexorable build-up to the big attack and the fury of war that changed and ended lives in minutes. This is a first rate, intimate and personal account of the Western Front warfare the British infantry knew.

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