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Title Brothers in arms : the unique collection of letters and photographs from two brothers at the Front during the first World War / edited by Karen Farrington
Published Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2015

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Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: 'England had indeed been unprepared!'; Chapter 2: 'It was my first taste of any real sort of war atmosphere'; Chapter 3: 'There's a tremendous din going on, like a huge thunder storm, as there's just now an artillery duel over our heads'; Chapter 4: 'The parapets and parados here were thick with dead bodies'; Chapter 5: 'It was a roaring, raging, swirl of destruction'; Chapter 6: 'Hour after hour the tempest raged as huge shells tore the earth up'
Chapter 7: 'I know a little more about chemistry now'Chapter 8: 'The continuous angry flash looked very ominous'; Chapter 9: 'Then the downpour of steel started, a veritable drum-fire, almost blotting everything out'; Chapter 10: 'There is a German sniper over there who has just parted my hair for me'; Chapter 11: 'I scrambled back through the wire, tearing my clothes and my hands, hearing bullets whizzing past me'; Chapter 12: 'Fancy being shot at like this in England!'; Chapter 13: 'Brother Boche has had a bad time all round'
Chapter 14: 'There were several cases of men being missed in the dark by their comrades, and actually drowned in the mud'Chapter 15: 'Nothing daunted we moved on, men dropping faster here and there and the gaps being filled up from those behind'; Chapter 16: 'I am also beginning to feel the effects of this war especially in the dark, when a gun fires not very far away or a sniper skims the parapet'
Summary Hidden away in the back of an old desk drawer was a dusty pile of school-style exercise books. In them were the recollections of a young officer who had fought with the Essex Regiment in the First World War from the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915, through the mud and misery of Ypres, to see victory in 1918. Discovering the memoirs of Lieutenant Robert D'Arblay Gybbon-Monypenny was not the only surprise, what was even more remarkable was how well-written they were, how vividly life and death in the trenches was portrayed.That life in the trenches saw Robert hit by a sniper's bullet, buried
Notes Includes index
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SUBJECT World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British
Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Military.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War I.
Soldiers
Great Britain
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Records and correspondence
Form Electronic book
Author Farrington, Karen, editor.
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