Who We Once Were: Life, love, and loss, before, during, and after the catastrophe of 1914-18 - Couverture souple

Talbot, JP

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798862243871

Editeur : Independently published, 2023

Synopsis

lan Cribdon never meant his tape-recorded memoirs of trench warfare on Gallipoli and, later, aerial battles above the Western Front, to be anything more than historical episodes in one elderly man’s private account of life, love, and loss, before, during, and after the catastrophe of 1914-18.

But what has recently been recovered and transcribed from the Baxter Audio Archive at Oxford, where they were deposited after his death in 1992, is a frank, sometimes confronting, always compelling autobiography that recounts a young Australian’s coming-of-age from Peace, through War, to Maturity on the threshold of the Roaring Twenties.

Who We Once Were reinterprets familiar events and places, myths and legends enshrined in Official Histories of the Great War, by giving an authentic voice to those ghostly, steel-helmeted men seen in flickering, black-and-white newsreels as they silently clamber “over the bags” before vanishing forever, into the barbed wire jungle of No Man’s Land.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798862243871
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 716
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