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Roy Denning was a First World War soldier who went to Gallipoli as a sapper with No. 1 Field Company, Engineers. He was an articulate man and has left us with a very introspective view of World War One.

Unlike many writers, he gets inside his own head and tells is how it felt to be in action amongst the death, maiming and terrible life in the trenches.

After a stay in hospital in Malta, he arrived on the Western Front where the horrors were even worse and the living conditions were extremely primitive. Again he tells how it really felt to be in the front line at Pozieres, Ypes, Longueval, The Somme, Villers Bretonneux and other battle areas. He describes the ghastliness of digging trenches and having to decide between chopping through buried bodies or diverting the trench to go around them.
 
In one incident, his men who had been the subject of shelling without the chance to retaliate, were suddenly in action and the 'bloody lust' of revenge gripped them.

When he went on leave to England, he began questioning his own resolve to return to the war. Self-discipline and loyalty to his mates, stopped him going AWL and he returned to face more misery.

Denning survived the war and for years wrote and re-wrote his diary until we have now a most readable book.

Roy's wife, Lorna, also worked on the editing with her husband and this interesting look into the mind of a WW1 Digger, is the result of their joint work.



CONTENTS:  Illustrations - Acknowledgments - Introduction - Chapters: The Hour Before Dawn - Birth of an Anzac - Malta - Gallipoli Again - The Canal and France - Pozieres - Pozieres again - Blighty and the Somme - Leaving for England - France again - Retreat and Counter Attack - Going Home - Epilogue - Glossary - Index

 
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SKU:9781876439798
Quantity:- out of stock -
Author/s: Roy and Lorna Denning
Book Size(cm): 21 x 15
Condition: NEW
Format: Cardcover
Pages: 133
Printing &/or Publishing Information: Australian Military History Publications
Printing Year: 2004
ISBN: 9781876439798
Weight:0.29 kg
Price:$ 14.95
 

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