A Subaltern's War: Being A Memoir Of The Great War From The Point Of View Of A Romantic Young Man, With Candid Accounts Of Two Particular Battles, Wri

The two battles in which the "romantic young" author took part were the Somme and Ypres, which he somehow survived, and which he records with a special sense of humor and tragedy. He published his account in 1929 when it attracted immediate attention and went through three printings. His epilogue on militarism presents a moving retrospect, inquiring into why and how his generation fought and concluding "We must face the fact that death is inevitable and hate lamentably common." Reprint edition: 2006: 224 pages, 8 illustrations, 2 maps. Softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)"Charles Edmonds" was pseudonym of Charles Carrington.