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1915: The Death Of Innocence

Author: Macdonald, Lyn; Introduction: Cowley, Robert
Paperback; 73 B&w Photographs
672 pages
Published: December 2000
The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801864437

By Christmas 1914, the wild wave of enthusiasm that had sent men flocking to join up a few months earlier began to tail off, and though the original British Expeditionary Force had suffered90 percent casualties, most people, particularly the soldiers themselves, still believed that 1915 would see the breaking of the deadlock. But their hopes were shattered on the bloody battlefields ofNeuve Chapelle, Ypres, Laos, and far away on the shores of Gallipoli.Lyn Macdonald's story of 1915 is stark, brutal, frank, sometimes painfully funny, always human. Never before has any writer collected so many firsthand accounts of the experiences of ordinary soldiers, through diaries, letters, and interviews with survivors -- and it is the dogged heroism and sardonic humor of the soldiers tha

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