March to the Sounds of the Guns

Grover, Ray

ISBN 10: 187746001X / ISBN 13: 9781877460012

Published by Long Acre Press, New Zealand, 2008

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Very Good condition paperback, appears unread although there is one slight crease on the spine. Signed by Author on title page, no other inscriptions or markings.

Seller Inventory # 204201

Bibliographic Details

• Title: March to the Sounds of the Guns
• Publisher: Long Acre Press, New Zealand
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 187746001X
• ISBN 13: 9781877460012
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author on title page.

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Synopsis

During World War I New Zealand shipped one hundred thousand young men halfway round the world to fight at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Eighteen thousand were killed - a death rate of nearly one in five. Thousands more were maimed physically and emotionally. The men had gone with the encouragement of their families and the blessings of their churches. In March to the Sound of the Guns five people tell us the story of their war: the oldest is Colonel Malone, one of the very few who knows what war is about and who trains his men hard but, on going into action, is faced with incompetence at the highest levels. The other four are nineteen-year-olds who volunteer for reasons that derive from the raw colonial society in which they have been born and raised: Harry, the Christian sniper; Jim, the leftwing activist; Frank, the intellectual. Each has no alternative but to endure fear, sickness, wounds, and the imminent prospect of death under the foulest of conditions. Then there is Nelle, the nurse, patching up the remnants of men who have 'survived'. Sharing much with Band of Brothers and Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, March to the Sound of the Guns has been drawn from over twenty years of research into soldiers' diaries, letters and memoirs, along with close inspection of the battlefields and study of authoritative historians. It is a searing, searching account of a generation of New Zealanders who went to a war and were changed forever.