My Year of the War (Dodo Press)
Publisher: Dodo Press
Published: September 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781406541786
Subjects: Biography: general; Military; Biography & Autobiography / Military; Biography / Autobiography
First sentence: The rush from Monterey, in Mexico, when a telegram said that general European war was inevitable; the run and jump on board the Lusitania at New York the night that war was declared by England against Germany; the Atlantic passage on the liner of ineffaceable memory, a suspense broken by fragments of war news by wireless; the arrival in England before the war was a week old; the journey to Belgium in the hope of reaching the scene of action!-as I write, all seem to have the perspective of history, so final are the processes of war, so swift their execution, and so eager is everyone for each day's developments.