My Bit: a Lancashire Fusilier at War 1914-18

My Bit: a Lancashire Fusilier at War 1914-18 by ASHURST GEORGE


ISBN
9781861269836
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
144
Dimensions
156 x 234 x 11mm

George Ashurst served with the Lancashire Fusiliers, taking part in First Ypres, Gallipoli and the Somme, and enduring months of trench warfare on the Western Front, making numerous grim and dangerous patrols into no man's land. His memoirs vividly reveal the reality of life in the trenches and the feelings of those who had to suffer it. Ashurst was often frightened and uncertain, occasionally infuriated by the 'shirking' amongst the officers, was usually ready for a cigarette or drink, but when his battalion attacked he would not shrink from his duty. My Bit is a fascinating and moving frist-hand account of the First World War written by a working-class soldier. EDITOR: Richard Holmes is the author of numerous books including The Firing Line, Soldiers and Riding The Retreat and the author and presenter of the BBC War Walks series and their accompanying books. He is Professor of Military and Security Studies Cranfield University and the Royal College of Military Science, Shrivenham and Britain's senior serving reserve officer. SELLING POINTS: Well-observed first hand accounts of the First World War by working-class slodiers are relatively rare - My Bit is such an account. Written in the 1920s both frim diaries and from memory, it clearly conveys the 'timeless voice from the ranks'. AUTHOR: Dr. Richard Holmes is a well-known military historian and author of numerous military books, some accompanied with a television series. 4 maps
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