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Mud, Blood and Bullets: Memoirs of a Machine Gunner on the Western Front
Edward Rowbotham
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Description for Mud, Blood and Bullets: Memoirs of a Machine Gunner on the Western Front
Paperback. Editor(s): Tucker, Janet. Num Pages: 210 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 11. Weight in Grams: 216.
It is 1915 and the Great War has been raging for a year when Edward Rowbotham, a coal miner from the Midlands, volunteers for Kitchener’s Army. Drafted into the newly formed Machine Gun Corps, he is sent to fight in places whose names will forever be associated with mud and blood and sacrifice: Ypres, the Somme and Passchendaele. He is one of the ‘lucky’ ones, winning the Military Medal for bravery and surviving more than two-and-a-half years of the terrible slaughter, which wiped out all but six of his original company. He wrote these memoirs fifty years later, but found ... Read more
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Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750956611
SKU
V9780750956611
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99-50
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