Bill Lamin
Autore di Letters from the Trenches: A Soldier of the Great War
Opere di Bill Lamin
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Letters from the Trenches: A Soldier of the Great War di Bill Lamin
As Bill Lamin concedes in the introduction, the letters themselves, from his grandfather in 1917-20, are sometimes lacking in interest, yet as testimony from the frontline during World War I, they deserve to be publicised - the saving grace is Mr Lamin's fulsome explanation of what is going on, what Harry Lamin is saying (between the lines) and the rest. Having researched the wartime experience of a relative myself, I admire the research that has been undertaken to produce this account.
½This was a fairly simple, straightforward series of letters from a Canadian soldier in WW1. It was enlightening, but the prose came off as rather dry and stagnant in parts. However, it was still worth the read.
3 stars.
3 stars.
As the first reviewer said this book is the result of a blog where the letters were first put up. Harry Lamin was a hard-working man with a wife and child. He should not have been asked to go but England was desperate and Harry went to do his duty.
Harry tried to be casual and reticent about his experience except perhaps with his brother Jack. What he wrote to his wife Ethel is unknown as she destroyed his letters to her after the war. But from what he says you can see it was 'typical' combat - terror and boredom over and over.
The letters show what a junior enlisted man went through at the time, if he survived. If you have any interest in the First World War or indeed in war at all, I recommend the book.… (altro)
Harry tried to be casual and reticent about his experience except perhaps with his brother Jack. What he wrote to his wife Ethel is unknown as she destroyed his letters to her after the war. But from what he says you can see it was 'typical' combat - terror and boredom over and over.
The letters show what a junior enlisted man went through at the time, if he survived. If you have any interest in the First World War or indeed in war at all, I recommend the book.… (altro)
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