Description
A superbly written personal account of fighting years on the Western Front.
About the Author
Walter Young was a Londoner, who joined the Territorial Army before the outbreak of war, and was called up to fight in the First World War in 1914, serving in the London Regiment of the Post Office Rifles. He earned a Military Medal for bravery and ended the war as a prisoner of war. He kept his memoirs secret and they were not discovered till after his death.
Reviews
"A lucid and vivid account of one man's experiences - but what terrible experiences, and what a remarkable man." -- Alan Johnson MP
"Factual books providing this excellent basement level view of World War I are rare. Young... provides a meticulous, almost dispassionate record of day-to-day life and death during those terrible years. He leaves it to the reader to imagine the destructive impact such hardship and grief has upon the human soul, both at the time it is happening and in the years after the conflict has ended." -- Dale le Vack, author of Stretcher Bearer!
"A Post Office sorter, a quiet, careful man, finds himself fighting for his country in France. He records his war story step-by-step in the penetratingly clear language of an able man." -- Professor G. R. Evans, author of Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War
"A gripping, compelling memoir of a good man in extraordinary times." -- Duncan Barrett, author of Men of Letters
Book Information
ISBN 9780745970301
Author Walter Young
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Lion Books
Publisher SPCK Publishing