April 23, 1918. Arrived at the R.E. Base Depot, Rouen, and was delighted to find a pile of letters waiting for me. Damn fools that we are, we are all fretting to get back into it again—the lines must be very thin nowadays. In the evening had an excellent Mess Smoking Concert, plenty of champagne, and a terrific “fug” in the ante-room. Heaven knows when we will have another night like this as we are at the last outpost of civilisation again. April 24. Wasting time all day at the Demolitions...

"A Soldier's Diary" by Ralph Scott is a poignant exploration of the life of a soldier during tumultuous times. Through the eyes of the protagonist, readers are taken on a journey that reveals the harsh realities of war, the camaraderie among soldiers, and the emotional toll of conflict. Scott's vivid descriptions and heartfelt reflections provide a deep understanding of the soldier's experience, making it relatable to anyone who has faced adversity. The diary format allows for an intimate ...

"God, in Thy mercy, let me never again hear any one speak of the Glory of War! I am too exhausted to feel tired."Ralph Scott's magnificent World War I classic has come to ebooks for the first time. In a harrowing, graphic account of life on the front lines of The Great War's trenches, Scott was unsparing of the horror he witnessed.Few generals know what the line soldier experiences. In his forward to Scott's classic, Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice writes, "......

Kindness and Friendships can be found in the most unexpected placesThis is the story of two creatures who resemble each otherin shape but come from completely different worlds.Their unlikely meeting begins a story of kindness, friendship, purposeand respect for all creatures on the planet.

Halfmoon Ridge is a tale of when the one you love is right before your eyes and they still can not see the real you. Not until the family makes some business changes to the dude ranch does the couple really get to know one another. The couple has been working side by side for years, but now as two grown adults, feelings develop between them. Are they practical with an entire family surrounding them and already running a business together? The family gets tired of staying behind the scenes ...

This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier is a well written much respected first-hand account of the brutal fighting in the last year of the war.

The epic and brutal WWI battle is vividly recounted through the words and photos of the soldiers who lived through it.One of the most famous battles of the Great War, the offensive on the Somme took place in 1916, from July and November. It was there that Kitcheners famous Pals Battalions were first sent into action en masse. It was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a nation, hopeful of victory, were agonizingly dashed.Because of its l...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation."Nothing of Importance", Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion is considered one of the finest World War I memoirs. It gives an incredible description of trench wafare.

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos"A young British soldier who went to war on two wheels"When the Great War broke out, the author of this book decided to leave his university studies and join the struggle. What attracted him immediately was the potential to combine his military service with his love of motorcycles and so it was that he found himself one of a select group of motorcycle despatch riders within the 5th Di...

"A remarkably candid and graphic account" of the World War I service of a member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( Britain at War Magazine).Having enlisted in 1915 and serving in the 56th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, Harold Roy Williams arrived in France, from Egypt, on June 30, 1916. He describes the horrors of the Fromelles battlefield in shocking clarity and the conditions the troops had to endure are revealed in disturbing detail.

In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'.It was the very first collection to reveal the many dimensions of the war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier and offers heart-stopping renditions of the very first gas attack; aerial dogfights abo...

Alfred Burrages War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal conditions and his observations.Written in the 1920s he wanted the curious to know what war was really like. Burrage realized that nearly all such memoirs were written by ex-officers who inevitably saw the war from a different view point to Tommy Atkins as he put it, the officers were only with us, not of us, and the...