Heavy Fighting Before Us: Letters from a Royal Irish Rifles Officer on the Western Front – WWI Correspondence Collection – Paperback

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by George Brenton Laurie (Author)

Words from the Front

This poignant firsthand account of war on the Western Front during the Great War was written by the colonel of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles–a famous regiment of the British Army with its origins in Ulster. This is an intimate narrative of the experience of trench warfare with its attacks, raids, skirmishes, the slow loss of valued officers and men and the very debilitating matter of existing within the muddy confines of trenches and dugouts perpetually subject to the menace of the snipers bullet or the barrage of hostile artillery. Filled with detail and anecdotes, this is a fine view of a senior regimental officer’s war told in letter form and an interesting addition to any library of the history of the Great War and the war the infantry knew. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.41 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 05, 2008

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