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Lionel Sotheby's Great War. Diaries and Letters from the Western Front

Door Lionel Sotheby

Categorie	WO I
Boeknummer	#258994
Titel	Lionel Sotheby's Great War. Diaries and Letters from the Western Front
Auteur	Sotheby, Lionel
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Ohio University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1997
ISBN10	0821411780
ISBN13	9780821411780
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	The “butterfly” that emerged in World War I trench warfare in 1915 aspired to kill: “I cannot explain,” the diary continues. “It comes unseen and makes you oblivious of almost everything at times, save one intense desire to kill, kill, kill, the Germans.” Lionel Sotheby's diary and letters are a compelling first-person account of the harrowing experiences of the young British lieutenant at the Western Front. His writing reveals constant peril, hourly discomfort, and gruesome injuries. Brushes with death or mutilation were daily occurrences, and nearby comrades—some literally inches away from Lionel—fell to gas, machine guns, snipers and shells. “One poor fellow next to me put up his head for a second…They got him through th... (Lees verder)e jaw, gums tongue, and come out tearing half his neck away. We bandaged him up somehow. Awful wound and in agony.” There is evidence that Lionel Sotheby struggled at times with the horror of war, yet overall he remained remarkably cheerful and resolute—and certain of his own impending death. “It is a noble selfless sentiment far more rare in today's less 'patriotic' world, but a virtue that characteristically animated most products of the public schools of that generation,” writes Donald Richter. “The Black Watch including myself charged the German trenches 400 yards away. The whole 15 officers were killed, except 4. Of these 4, 3 were wounded and 1 survived. I tell you it was a miracle and I feel quite changed as I lay out 15 yards from the German trenches for 4 hours before crawling back.” A great many soldiers in 1915 did not survive log enough to record their experiences. It was nasty, close-range fighting, with fearsome instruments of death. Nobody yet knew how to fight the first mechanized global.
Pagina's	148
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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