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Owens, Henry

 
9781781593066: A Doctor on the Western Front: The Diary of Henry Owens 1914-1918
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ISBN 10 : 178159306X ISBN 13 : 9781781593066
Editeur : Pen & Sword Military, 2013

Synopsis

Henry Owens Great War diary provides a vivid and complete narrative, seen from the perspective of an army doctor, of what it was like to live and fight in the trenches of the Western Front. Owens, a member of the original British expeditionary Force, the 'Old Contemptibles', was among the first British soldiers to set foot in France. He spent the next four years in the front line as a doctor and a diarist, an eyewitness to some of the most bitter and violent struggles of the greatest conflict the world had ever seen. His writing, edited and with a full introduction by John Hutton, gives us an inside view of the duties and experiences of a doctor tending the fighting troops, and it paints a graphic portrait of the daily lives of the men themselves. Henry Owens was born into a doctor's family in Long Stratton, Norfolk in 1889. When war was declared in 1914 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force. He served as a front-line medical officer throughout the conflict and he kept a diary and notes. After the war he used this material to assemble this meticulous account of his experiences. After being demobilized in 1919 he returned to civilian medical practice and married, but he died after a sudden illness in 1921, aged just 31. After the death of his wife in 1980, the diary came into the possession of the Imperial War Museum.

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À propos de l'auteur

Between 1992 and 2010, John Hutton was the Member of Parliament for Barrow and Furness. He held various ministerial offices, first as a health minister, then as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Business and finally for Defence. On the dissolution of Parliament in 2010, he was made a life peer. He was the author in 2008 of Kitchener's Men: The King's Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front 1915-1918.

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Éditeur
Pen & Sword Military
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
178159306X
ISBN 13 
9781781593066
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
207
Éditeur
Hutton John
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