From the Somme to the Rhine

ASHMEAD-BARTLETT, S.

Verlag: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1921

Beschreibung

8vo, original red cloth badly discoloured, spine sunned. 206pp + 2pp of publisher's adverts, illustrated with four maps, one folding. From the On Active Service series. A personal account of events in 1918 written by a regimental officer on his probationary period during the First World War. The author was witness to the final disintegration of the German war machine as the Allied forces finally pushed into Germany itself. As an officer of the 173rd brigade, 58th Division, he was at the forefront of the advance at many points, seeing the horrors of the war for the first time. Unlike many wartime memoirs of the First World War, Ashmead-Barlett recounts his experiences in Germany, offering some idea of what the war must have been like for the civilian population. His writing is fresh and immediate: not desensitised by years of fighting, he is very frank about the brutalities and horrors of the last months of the War. Generally very good and clean inside with occasional age toning. Scarce. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2287

Bibliografische Details

Titel: From the Somme to the Rhine

Verlag: John Lane The Bodley Head

Erscheinungsdatum: 1921

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition