With a Machine Gun to Cambrai

With a Machine Gun to Cambrai
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Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 0304352586
ISBN-13 : 9780304352586
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Book Synopsis With a Machine Gun to Cambrai by : George Coppard

Download or read book With a Machine Gun to Cambrai written by George Coppard and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1914, after lying about his age, the 16-year-old George Coppard enlisted in Kitchener's army. Serving with the Machine Gun Corps, he fought in the battles of Loos, Somme and Arras, and at Cambrai, where he was badly wounded and won the Military Medal for Bravery. This book is based on diaries that the author kept, against military regulation, during his service in France. It is one of the few accounts of the war to be written by a private soldier rather than an officer, and as such it paints a vivid and horrifying picture of life in the trenches as seen by someone at the very bottom of the military hierarchy.


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