Description
Product ID: | 9780553819137 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Somme Mud |
Authors: | Author: E P F Lynch, Will Davies |
Page Count: | 448 |
Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, European history, First World War, Battles and campaigns, European history, First World War, Battles & campaigns, France, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Written from the perspective of an ordinary 'Tommy' and told with dignity, candour and surprising wit, Somme Mud is a testament to the human spirit: for out of the mud that threatened to suck out a man's soul rises a compelling story of humanity and friendship. ''It''s the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse it, but we can''t escape it, not even by dying...'' |
Imprint Name: | Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of |
Publisher Name: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2008-10-09 |