Our Part in the Great War

Mud clings to boots and the air vibrates with distant artillery; the world narrows to a trench, a battered notebook, and the urgent need to bear witness. From the battered fields of the Western Front to the restless encampments behind the lines, this first world war memoir unfolds with the immediacy of lived experience, capturing the rhythms and ruptures of soldier life between 1914 and 1918. Through the eyes of a wartime journalist, the chaos and camaraderie of battle are rendered in sharp...