A Subaltern's War
by Charles Edmonds
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2006 Scholar's Bookshelf reprint edition. The two battles in which the "romantic young" author took part were the Somme and Ypres, which he somehow survived, and which he records with a special sense of humor and tragedy. He published his account in 1929 when it attracted immediate attention and went through three printings. His epilogue on militarism presents a moving retrospect, inquiring into why and how his generation fought and concluding "We must face the fact that death is inevitable show more and hate lamentably common." show lessTags
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Well-written personal memoir of a young British officer on the Western Front. Part of the canon of WW1 literature.
One of the very best memoirs of the first war.
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- Original title
- A Subaltern's War, being a memoir of the great war from the point of view of a romantic young man, with candid accounts of two particular battles, written shortly after they occurred, and an essay on militarism
- Original publication date
- 1929
- People/Characters
- Charles Edmund Carrington
- Important events
- World War I
- Dedication
- To the Memory of
Private J. P. Bradley
Killed in Action - First words
- The war caught up the author of these memoirs, a boy of seventeen, out of a country vicarage.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
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