The Distant Drum - A Memoir of a Guardsman in the Great War, F. E. Noakes

The Distant Drum - A Memoir of a Guardsman in the Great War, F. E. Noakes.

A rare example both of an autobiography written by a private soldier serving in the Guards during the First World War, and of an autobiography that covers the events of 1917 and 1918, including the German offensives in the spring and the final victorious Allied campaigns.

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