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It's an unsatisfying read, not enough background. I can't imagine that your average American was so knowledgeable of Gallipoli that none was required. The wri
by barking 12y ago
It's an unsatisfying read, not enough background.
I can't imagine that your average American was so knowledgeable of Gallipoli that none was required.
The writer makes the soldier out to be simple and quaint but for me he's the more eccentric.
- barking 12y agoActually, I take it back, Ferdinand Reyher, the author, has quite an interesting life story http://digital.lib.umd.edu/archivesum/actions.DisplayEADDoc.do;jsessionid=70DE4C4AA9DEA7BCEE01DC7C2C8645ED?source=MdU.ead.litms.0037.xml&style=ead http://digital.lib.umd.edu/archivesum/actions.DisplayEADDoc....
- novalis78 12y agoAn incredible account of WWI trench warfare - fascinating and extremely intimate - was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_of_Steel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_of_Steel for those interested