num_pages: 224
description: 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.
language: English
title: 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, ... They Occurred, And An Essay On Militarism
titlecomplete: 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, ... They Occurred, And An Essay On Militarism
genres: World War I
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Scholar's Bookshelf