*Take $10 off when you spend $50+! Use code NEWYEAR10. Ends Mon 5 Jan. T&Cs apply.
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Private 12768 : Memoir of a Tommy - John Jackson

Private 12768

Memoir of a Tommy

By: John Jackson, Hew Strachan (Foreword by)

eBook | 1 October 2005 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

eBook

RRP $10.99

$9.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $2.50 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

A newly discovered account of life in the trenches that challenges our perception of how British troops viewed the First World War.

There is no shortage of personal accounts from the First World War. So why publish another memoir? The principal reason is the tone of enthusiasm, pride and excitement conveyed by its author, Private John Jackson.

Jackson served on the Western Front from 1915 until the war's end; he was present at Loos in 1917, on the Somme in 1916, in Flanders in 1917; he was on the receiving end of the German offensive in April 1918; and he took part in the breaking of the Hindenburg Line at the end of September 1918. Conditioned by Wilfred Owen's poetry and dulled by the notions of waste and futility, British readers have become used to the idea that this was a war without purpose fought by 'lions led by donkeys'.

This narrative captures another perspective, written by somebody with no obvious agenda but possessed of deep traditional loyalties - to his country, his regiment and his pals.

on

You Can Find This eBook In

Miscellaneous ItemsNon-FictionHistoryMilitary HistoryFirst World War HistoryGeneral & World HistoryBiographies & True Stories BiographiesHistorical, Political and Military BiographiesHistorical, Political and Military AutobiographiesMemoirsWarfare & Defence

More in General & World History

Chasing Chi - James E. Gaylord

eBOOK

Chasing Chi

eBook

$38.99

The Menzies Era - John Howard

eBOOK

The Menzies Era

eBook

$9.99

Story of Philosophy - Will Durant

eBOOK

Story of Philosophy

eBook

$10.99

This product is categorised by