In The Footsteps of Private Lynch - Couverture souple

Davies, Will

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0553824155 ISBN 13 : 9780553824155

Editeur : Bantam, 2010

Synopsis

Retracing the dramatic experiences of a private soldier in the Great War - the follow-up to the bestselling First World War memoir Somme Mud.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Will Davies is a film-maker, writer and military historian. He lives in Sydney. Private Edward Lynch was born in 1898 and served in France with the First Australian Imperial Force from 1916-19. He died in 1980.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

With a mighty roar the shell explodes spouting flame and phosphorous fumes everywhere. Mud is showered over everyone as pieces of shell fly over prone bodies. A man five feet ahead of me is sobbing - queer, panting gasping sobs. He bends his head towards his stomach just twice and is still. We've had our baptism of fire, seen our first man killed...

Will Davies' discovery of the manuscript for Somme Mud revealed a lost treasure. Private Edward Lynch's personal account of the war in the trenches has since become a classic.

This companion volume is a fascinating contextual history of the war in France as experienced by an eighteen-year-old soldier and his comrades. In retracing the progress of Lynch and the 45th Battalion, the AIF - from the long route marches to flea-ridden billets, into the frontline against the enemy at such infamous places as Messines and Villers-Bretonneux, and on to the great push for victory after August 1918 - Will Davies shines unique light on life and death amidst the barbed wire and the mud, and the ebb and flow of the war on the Western Front.

And in revisiting these battlefields today and attempting to understand their significance, this book pays tribute to the young men who sacrificed so much over ninety years ago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0553824155
• ISBN 13: 9780553824155
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible