Another book recommedation request.

[ceebee_eebee]

This time I am looking for books about WWI. I'm fascinated by the realities of that war and would LOVE to read some good accounts of what it was actually like for the soldiers. I've got the politics and all that down, I've visited plenty of memorials and historical sites while I was in Europe oh so long ago now, but I don't feel like I have a strong grasp of what it was really like in the trenches. What it was like for the POWs. That kind of thing.

Anyone around here a war history buff? Got any recs for me?

Comments

[andrealyn]

There's a two-part set that revolves around the Canadian conflicts? The one I read was Shock Troops and it's got a lot of accounts from the men. I really enjoyed it!

[ceebee_eebee]

Excellent! I'll check that out. Thank you. :)

[tempusfrangit]

Hmmm Tommy? Or The Last Tommy I think it's called. It's about Harry Patch if I remember rightly.

[ceebee_eebee]

Yes! You are the second person to mention that one. Good enough for me. I ordered it off amazon. Hooray! <3<3<3

[deense]

One for now:

Title: The Anzacs

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

Review:

If you have not read The Anzacs there will always be a part of Australia you will never understand.

[Les Carlyon, The Australian.]

Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was not time for escape or burial. And when Gallipoli was over there was the misery of the European Campaign.

Patsy Adam-Smith read over 8000 diaries and letters to write her acclaimed best-seller about the First World War. Soldiers sought her out to tell her why they went, what they saw, and how they felt about that great holocaust. Their simple accounts are more vivid than any novel; the years have not dimmed their memories of lost comrades and the horrors of war. These are the extraordinary experiences of ordinary men - and they strike to the heart.

Winner of the Age Book of the Year award when first published in 1978, The Anzacs remains unrivalled as the classic account of Australia's involvement in the First World War.

[ceebee_eebee]

Of course! Was this the memorial we went to see that day in Sydney?

[deense]

Yes! It was!

[ceebee_eebee]

That was a fabulous memorial. Yes. I'll definitely check that book out.