03140nam 2200565 450 991078840130332120230807210517.01-4738-5970-0(CKB)2670000000617783(EBL)2055661(SSID)ssj0001535557(PQKBManifestationID)11892246(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001535557(PQKBWorkID)11502373(PQKB)10726627(MiAaPQ)EBC2055661(Au-PeEL)EBL2055661(CaPaEBR)ebr11062148(CaONFJC)MIL788010(OCoLC)910282938(EXLCZ)99267000000061778320150618h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBrothers in arms the unique collection of letters and photographs from two brothers at the front during the First World War /edited by Karen FarringtonBarnsley, England :Pen & Sword Military,2015.©20151 online resource (221 p.)Includes index.1-4738-2561-X 1-4738-5971-9 Cover; Title page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: 'England had indeed been unprepared!'; Chapter 2: 'It was my first taste of any real sort of war atmosphere'; Chapter 3: 'There's a tremendous din going on, like a huge thunder storm, as there's just now an artillery duel over our heads'; Chapter 4: 'The parapets and parados here were thick with dead bodies'; Chapter 5: 'It was a roaring, raging, swirl of destruction'; Chapter 6: 'Hour after hour the tempest raged as huge shells tore the earth up'Chapter 7: 'I know a little more about chemistry now'Chapter 8: 'The continuous angry flash looked very ominous'; Chapter 9: 'Then the downpour of steel started, a veritable drum-fire, almost blotting everything out'; Chapter 10: 'There is a German sniper over there who has just parted my hair for me'; Chapter 11: 'I scrambled back through the wire, tearing my clothes and my hands, hearing bullets whizzing past me'; Chapter 12: 'Fancy being shot at like this in England!'; Chapter 13: 'Brother Boche has had a bad time all round'Chapter 14: 'There were several cases of men being missed in the dark by their comrades, and actually drowned in the mud'Chapter 15: 'Nothing daunted we moved on, men dropping faster here and there and the gaps being filled up from those behind'; Chapter 16: 'I am also beginning to feel the effects of this war especially in the dark, when a gun fires not very far away or a sniper skims the parapet'World War, 1914-1918Personal narratives, BritishSoldiersGreat BritainCorrespondenceWorld War, 1914-1918Soldiers940.48141Farrington KarenMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788401303321Brothers in arms1262219UNINA