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HUTTON, JOHN - Edited by: : A DOCTOR ON THE WESTERN FRONT: The Diary of HENRY OWENS 1914-1918.

UK.BARNSLEY,S. YORKSHIRE.PEN & SWORD MILITARY,2013.

ISBN 178159306X.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - as new.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, montage'd monochrome photographic illustrated front panel+spine/backstrip with white lettering, and monochrome photographic illustrated rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,2-207pp [paginated] includes editor's introduction,6 chapters,8pp contemporary,autobiographical b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp90/1,an index; plus [unpaginated] title page, contents list/table,illustrations list/ table with Western Front b/w map to its reverse and b/w publisher's advert to reverse of last page. Henry Owen's 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 (BEF),the 'Old Contemptibles',was among the first British soldiers to set foot in France.He spent the next four years in the front lines 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. Over the course of those years,he was involved in virtually all the major battles the British fought during the war, in Flanders,around Ypres,along the Somme.He cared for soldiers of all three armies - British,French and German. Frequently he was under direct fire from artillery,machine guns and rifles,and he faced the same risks and hardships as any combatant.His experiences in the trenches, in ambulances,at first-aid posts and in hospitals gave him a unique vantage point from which to observe the brutality of the fighting and the treatment of the wounded and dying. Herny Owen's writing,edited 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 (IWM). Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note, stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded, after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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