Tuesday, October 22, 2013

A Gunner's Great War, Ian Ronayne.

A Gunner's Great War, Ian Ronayne.

Based around the journal of Clarence Ahier, a Jersey man who served in the artillery during the First World War, fighting on the Somme in 1916 and Ypres in 1917 before ending up as part of the British garrison in India. The journal is supported by a useful framework that puts Ahier's experiences into context. A useful view of the Great War from the position of the guns rather than from the trenches.
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