Harry's War

Author: Harry Drinkwater,Jon Cooksey,David Griffiths
Publisher: Ebury Press
Category: Memoirs, European History, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, World War 1 Books, War & Defence Operations
Book Format: Paperback

I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up and dropped breathless into a shell hole headlong onto a German who had been dead for months.' Harold Drinkwater was not supposed to go to war. He was told he was half an inch too short. But, determined to fight for king and country, he found a battalion that would take him and was soon on his way to the trenches of the Somme. As the war dragged on, Harry saw most of the men he joined up with killed around him. But, somehow, he survived. Soldiers were forbidden from keeping a diary so Harry wrote his in secret, recording the horrendous conditions and constant fear, as well as his pleasure at receiving his officer's commission, the joy of his men when they escaped the trenches for the Italian Front and the trench raid for which he was awarded the Military Cross. Harry writes with such immediacy it is easy to forget that a hundred years have passed. He is by turns wry, exhausted, annoyed, resigned and often amazed to be alive. Never before published, Harry's War is a moving testament to one man's struggle to keep his humanity in the face of unimaginable violence.

About Harry Drinkwater
Harry Drinkwater (Author)
Harold Victor Drinkwater was born on 19 February 1889 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School, where Shakespeare was educated. A month after war was declared in 1914, Harry volunteered, but failed his medical for being 'half an inch' too short. He tried again and successfully joined a Pals battalion in Birmingham. Harry fought on both the Western and Italian Fronts , receiving the Military Cross in 1917. Harry stayed in the army for two more years after Armistice was declared. He died in 1978.

(BK-9780091957223)

SKU BK-9780091957223
Barcode # 9780091957223
Brand Ebury Press
Artist / Author Harry Drinkwater, Jon Cooksey, David Griffiths
Shipping Weight 0.2100kg
Shipping Width 0.126m
Shipping Height 0.026m
Shipping Length 0.198m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 2.600m
Assembled Width 12.600m
Type Paperback

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