A Soldier's Diary: a Royal Engineer During the First World War on the Western Front at Ypres, 1918

A brilliant account of life and death in the trenches

All military memoirs are valuable because they offer an authentic view of the events they describe. Some works transcend simple records to become fine works of literary craftsmanship. Some, and this book is one of them, possess the ability to transport the reader—often in unsparing detail—to the wartime world the author experienced. Though this book has an uninspiring title, it has become highly regarded as a first-hand account of the bru...