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LETTERS FROM THE SOMME
"Miles of devastation and deserted villages and shell-holes. The ground is just as it was left. Rifles with the bayonets fixed lie as they were dropped; limbers smashed and half-buried by shell-fire; perforated shrapnel helmets - German and British; equipment, boots, ammunitions, stretchers, derelict aeroplanes, and tanks."
Rowland Feilding served on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918. Whilst on active service, he wrote to his wife regularly. He promised his wife that his letters home would be honest about life (and death) on the front line. The result is an extraordinary set of war letters.
Feilding took part in the first and second battles of the Somme, as well as the dramatic British retreat during the German “spring offensive”. His letters are important eyewitness accounts, and Letters from the Somme will be of interest to anybody who wants to know what the British Army went through on the Somme.
Rowland Feilding served on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918. Whilst on active service, he wrote to his wife regularly. He promised his wife that his letters home would be honest about life (and death) on the front line. The result is an extraordinary set of war letters.
Feilding took part in the first and second battles of the Somme, as well as the dramatic British retreat during the German “spring offensive”. His letters are important eyewitness accounts, and Letters from the Somme will be of interest to anybody who wants to know what the British Army went through on the Somme.
105 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 22, 2016
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September 9, 2018
This looks awfully familiar
Disappointing, as this is just an excerpt from Rowland's complete book covering his war experience from 1915 to 1919 " Letters to a wife" Both books cost the same price so I advise you buy the complete title which, is a fantastic account of life on the western front. I found it on a par with Earnst Junger's "Storm of steel"
Disappointing, as this is just an excerpt from Rowland's complete book covering his war experience from 1915 to 1919 " Letters to a wife" Both books cost the same price so I advise you buy the complete title which, is a fantastic account of life on the western front. I found it on a par with Earnst Junger's "Storm of steel"
July 9, 2018
A good read from an officer's perspective
Well written and the reader doesn't get bored. Written by an officer but obviously one with respect for and if his men. It moves along steadily and I'm pleased i bought it
Well written and the reader doesn't get bored. Written by an officer but obviously one with respect for and if his men. It moves along steadily and I'm pleased i bought it
September 28, 2018
How delighted i have become
A truly based rendering of the account of war. It seems my life has been spared the horrors of war. I wish I have asked my grandad his account of ww1 him being a machine gunner. If only world leaders would learn from the futility of war.
A truly based rendering of the account of war. It seems my life has been spared the horrors of war. I wish I have asked my grandad his account of ww1 him being a machine gunner. If only world leaders would learn from the futility of war.
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