Letters From The Trenches: A Soldier of the Great War - Hardcover

Lamin, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843173735 ISBN 13: 9781843173731

Publisher: Michael O'Mara, 2009

Letters from the Trenches Harry Lamin was born in 1877 and left school at thirteen to work but by December 1916 he had been conscripted and sent to war. His letters home describe the conflict with a poignant immediacy, even ninety years on. This is the story of a brave and honourable man who endured everything that the war could throw at him, and still came up smiling.

Review:

...this selection, edited by Harry's grandson, provides a rare insight into the everyday experiences of the war's unsung heroes.

From the Author:

The progress of the original blog and its development into this book has been an incredible and exciting experience. The blog was originally launched just to see if there was any interest out there. The popularity of that material exceeded my wildest expectations. The extent of the readership was staggering. There were over two million page loads in 2008. Even more gratifying were the thousands and thousands of expressions of support and delight that were received via the blog's comments pages.

Eventually, it became quite clear that the material was strong enough to convert successfully to book form. In the latter part of 2008, I undertook that task. The challenge was to convert a successful publication from the medium of the internet into book form. It was essential to make it significantly different, whilst retaining the freshness, simplicity and charm of the original. It was by no means a simple task but I am pleased with the end result. I hope that the reader shares that view.

• Publisher: Michael O'Mara
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1843173735
• ISBN 13: 9781843173731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192