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Buy this book on-line LYNCH**, E. P. F [Edited by Will Davies]: : SOMME MUD: The Experiences of an Infantryman in France,1916-1919.**LONDON.INDEX BOOKS LTD.,2008. ISBN 9780385615785.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.First and originally published in UK,Doubleday 2006.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,monochrome illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head+ foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, photographic illustrated boardds (repeated from dw/dj picture) and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,vii-xiipp +1-347pp [paginated] includes a foreword, contents list/table,a Preface by Will Davies,20 chapters+epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp112/13 and pp224/25 respectively,5pp glossary,
acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated],half-title+ title pages,a dedication,4 b/w battlefield maps and 4pp blanks to rear.
Private Edward Lynch enlisted in the army aged just eighteen.As his ship set sail for France, the band played 'Boys of the Dardanelles' and
the crowd proudly waved off their young men - men who had no notion of the reality of the trenches of the Somme; of the pale-faced,
traumatized soldiers they would encounter there; of the mud and blood and the innumerable contradictions of war.Upon his return from France in 1919,Private Lynch recorded his experiences on the western Front in twenty school excercise books,perhaps in the hope of making sense of and coming to terms with all that he had witnessed.Edited and published here for the first time,Lynch's story is a rare and precious find: a personal account that vividly captures the horror and magnitude of the First World War,written from the perspective of an ordinary infantryman.Told with dignity,candour and surprising wit,'Somme Mud' stands as a testament to the power of the human spirit - for out of the mud that threatens to suck out a man's very soul rises a compelling true story of humanity and friendship.
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