Adventures Of An Ensign [Illustrated Edition]

• Autore: Vedette
• Pubblicazione: San Francisco : , : Lucknow Books, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- DEDICATION -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. -- CHAPTER II. -- CHAPTER III. -- CHAPTER IV. -- CHAPTER V. -- CHAPTER VI. -- CHAPTER VII. -- CHAPTER VIII. -- CHAPTER IX. -- CHAPTER X. -- CHAPTER XI. -- CHAPTER XII. -- CHAPTER XIII. -- CHAPTER XIV. -- CHAPTER XV. -- CHAPTER XVI. -- CHAPTER XVII.
• Sommario/riassunto: Includes The First World War On The Somme Illustration Pack - 107 photos/illustrations and 31 maps.These are the wartime adventures of "Vedette", a pseudonym of noted journalist and screenwriter Valentine Williams, during the First World War. Williams volunteered for service at the age of 32, a little on the old side for service in as prestigious and hard fighting as the Irish Guards. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant or "Ensign", and found himself travelling to France and the frontline in 1916. There was little enough time for him to learn his duties and responsibilities in the field before he and his men were thrown into the hell of the Battle of the Somme. The sounds of the shells, bullets and cries of "Stretcher-BearER!" were to become all too familiar to the author before he was wounded and sent back to Blighty. His memoirs are told in the third person, with verve wit and vivid detail that belie William's journalist background.
• Titolo autorizzato: Adventures Of An Ensign
• ISBN: 9781786255617; 1786255618
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910158934003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II