1st edn., UK, xxxii, 172pp, frontis in line, [ads.], light blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, wraparound sepia photo pictorial dustwrapper, this account was first published by Arthur Barker in 1933 as 'Twelve Days' and records the experiences of a young subaltern who was at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge reading modern history when war broke out. He was also a member of the University Officers Training Corps and on 14th August 1914 was commissioned into the West Yorkshire Regiment. He did not sail for France until 20th July 1916 as one of several hundred re-inforcements for the Regiment's 2nd Battalion after they had lost three quarters of their strength in the July offensive. The battalion was withdrawn to rest and retrain and his account records twelve days after their return to the trenches in November 1916, ISBN:1853676802 fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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TWELVE DAYS ON THE SOMME - A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916

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Greenhill Books London

Publication Date

2006

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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