“A lucid and vivid account of one man’s experiences – but what terrible experiences, and what a remarkable man.”
Alan Johnson MP “Factual books providing this excellent basement level view of World War I are rare. Young... provides a meticulous, almost dispassionate record of day-to-day life and death during those terrible years. He leaves it to the reader to imagine the destructive impact such hardship and grief has upon the human soul, both at the time it is happening and in the years after the conflict has ended.”
Dale le Vack, author of Stretcher Bearer! “A Post Office sorter, a quiet, careful man, finds himself fighting for his country in France. He records his war story step-by-step in the penetratingly clear language of an able man.”
Professor G. R. Evans, author of Edward Hicks: Pacifist Bishop at War “A gripping, compelling memoir of a good man in extraordinary times.”
Duncan Barrett, author of Men of Letters