Buy this book on-line MOYNIHAN, MICHAEL - Edited by: : A PLACE CALLED ARMAGEDDON - Letters from the Great WarUK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1975. ISBN 0715369598.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.8vo, 191pp includes b/w photographs and 2 b/w maps.
These experiences of WWI,on the Western Front,Gallipoli, Mesopotamia (IRAQ) and in the air are the most personal eye-witness accounts to be published in a book.The letters of each of the seven protagonists have been so edited that they can be read as narrative accounts.It is as if one were looking over the shoulder of the correspondents as they wrote,when the experiences were still,often as not, immediately behind.They portray very different individuals,revealing war in all it's aspects - hellish and elating, degrading and ennobling,tragic and comic. The chapters by a marine sergeant and a guardsman are those rare documents - accounts of the ordeal by 'other ranks' - that are among the most vivid by anyone to appear in print.
For the most part the book reflects human warmth,cheerful endurance and mention of comforting trivia - all these things that made the experience tenable - and not the darker side of war.But there are bloodthirsty moments,as when a young officer at Gallipoli writes of streams 'simply running blood and the heaps of dead were a grand sight! 'A Place Called Armageddon' illuminates the lives of the combatants in the Great War in a personal way that has only been achieved before in novels and behind it all the solemnity and agony that have been captured for all time in the poetry of Wilfred Owen and in the music of War Requiem.
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