San Fairy Ann?: Motorcycles and British Victory 1914-1918 - Softcover

Carragher, Michael

 
9781908487384: San Fairy Ann?: Motorcycles and British Victory 1914-1918
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1908487380 ISBN 13: 9781908487384
Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The unsung heroes of many a military endeavor—particularly before the rise of mobile technology—messengers were often the deciding factor of who wins a battle and who loses. There are no finer examples of these crucial players than the Despatch Rider Corps of World War I. Essential to successful communication between soldiers during the war, these motorcycling rascals raced around the country delivering messages and occasionally wreaking mayhem on the enemy.
 
In San Fairy Ann?, Michael Carragher tells the story of these underappreciated riders who played a pivotal role in preventing German victory. He tracks the adventures of one despatch messenger in particular, Roger West, an amateur rider in the British Expeditionary Force. At one point in his career, West—one of his feet was so injured he couldn’t wear a boot—thought it “seemed a pity” that a bridge along the Great Retreat of August 1914 was open to the German armies, so he rode back to blow it up.
 
San Fairy Ann? gives life to the incredible forgotten stories of the motorcycle men who rode day and night to hold a desperate army together through a combination of grit, bravery, and a dash of roguery.

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Michael Carragher teaches history, geography, and English in the Irish secondary and vocational education systems.

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Verlag
PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1908487380
ISBN 13 
9781908487384
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
294
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