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Mud, blood and bullets : memoirs of a machine gunner on the western front / Edward Rowbotham ; edited by Janet Tucker.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publisher: Stroud : Spellmount, 2010Description: 190 p. ill., maps 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780752456201
  • 0752456202
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.4144092 22
LOC classification:
  • D547.M2
Other classification:
  • K.51
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It is 1915 and the Great War has been raging for a year when Edward Rowbotham, a coal miner from the Midlands, volunteers for Kitchener's Army. Drafted into the newly-formed Machine Gun Corps, he is sent to fight in places whose names will forever be associated with mud, blood, and sacrifice: Ypres, the Somme, and Passchendaele.He is one of the "lucky" ones, surviving more than two-and-a-half years of the terrible slaughter that left nearly a million British soldiers dead by 1918 and wiped out all but six of his original company. He wrote these memoirs 50 years later, but found his memories of life in the trenches had not diminished at all. The sights and sounds of battle, the excitement, the terror, the extraordinary comradeship, are all vividly described as if they had happened to him only yesterday. They offer a rare perspective of the First World War from an ordinary soldier's viewpoint.

Includes index.