Eye-Deep in Hell: The Western Front 1914-1918 (Penguin Classic Military History S.) - Softcover

Ellis, John

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9780141391083: Eye-Deep in Hell: The Western Front 1914-1918 (Penguin Classic Military History S.)

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ISBN 10: 0141391081 ISBN 13: 9780141391083

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2002

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For four years, the French, British and German armies fought in mud and squalor. Eye-Deep in Hell is concerned with the millions of men who lived and died in the desolate strip that was the Western Front, the wilderness of trenches, dugouts, shattered villages and forests of lifeless tree stumps that was a physical and spiritual desert. The book shows how even in previously inconceivable conditions men were able to formulate routines, rules and codes of conduct that created some kind of order in the midst of chaos itself. The author describes trench routines from the daily kit inspection to the siting of latrines, and gives a chilling picture of the natural miseries in the front line.

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John Ellis is a noted military historian and the author of The Social History of the Machine Gun, Armies in Revolution and The Sharp End.

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