Name: Norman ten Hundred: The 1st (Service) Battalion Royal Guernsey Light Infantry in the Great war (en Inglés)
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Author: A. Stanley Blicq
ISBN: 9780857063731

portada Norman ten Hundred: The 1st (Service) Battalion Royal Guernsey Light Infantry in the Great war (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Leonaur

Autor

A. Stanley Blicq

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

116

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0857063731

ISBN13

9780857063731

Categorías

Primera guerra mundial (c. 1914-c. 1918)
Primera guerra mundial

Norman ten Hundred: The 1st (Service) Battalion Royal Guernsey Light Infantry in the Great war (en Inglés)

A. Stanley Blicq (Autor) · Leonaur · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Norman ten Hundred: The 1st (Service) Battalion Royal Guernsey Light Infantry in the Great war (en Inglés)"

The 'Normans' during the Great War in EuropeIt would misleading and unfair to the entertainment value and writing ability of the author of this book to describe it as a regimental history. Nothing justifiably so classified began with the expletive, 'Fed up!' Nevertheless, this excellent account takes the reader to the heart of the light infantry regiment raised in Guernsey and from its nearby islands, a regiment of local men who were proud of their independence and their heritage as decedents of the Norman warriors who accompanied Duke William on the conquest of England-the country they all acknowledged as nothing less than their own. Blicq, the author, was one of their number-an ordinary soldier and proud to be one of the worst in the battalion! So he predictably brings an element of humour into his graphic portrayal of his comrades and indeed, the text is full of wry period dialogue. Intimate portrait of life on the march, in camp and in the trenches is vividly painted giving the reader a picture of the Guernsey men's experience of life and death on the Western Front. The reader joins Blicq-half of the infamous 'Duo' into battle at Hendecourt, Cambrai, Marcoing, Masnieres through the near catastrophic German onslaught of 1918 to the Passchendaele sector and Doulieu-Estaires. This is a remarkable story of the men of a small island state who loyally and with humour and determination rallied to its call and, in many cases, sacrificed to the last full measure, leaving an appalling legacy of death and injury for the Channel Islands in the post war period. This is an unusual view of a unit at war on the Western Front from original sources and recommended. Available in softcover and hardcover with dust jacket.