Thunder In The Skies: A Canadian Gunner In The Great War
by Derek Grout /
2015 / English / EPUB
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An extraordinary, newly discovered account from an ordinary
Canadian on the ground in the crucial battles of the First World
War.
An extraordinary, newly discovered account from an ordinary
Canadian on the ground in the crucial battles of the First World
War.
What was it like to be a field gunner in the Great War?
What was it like to be a field gunner in the Great War?
Drawing on the unpublished letters and diary of field gunner Lt.
Bert Sargent and his fellow soldiers,
Drawing on the unpublished letters and diary of field gunner Lt.
Bert Sargent and his fellow soldiers,Thunder in the Skies
Thunder in the Skies
takes the reader from enlistment in late 1914, through training
camp, to the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, the Hundred Days
Offensive, and home again with peace.
takes the reader from enlistment in late 1914, through training
camp, to the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, the Hundred Days
Offensive, and home again with peace.
Posted just behind the front lines, Sargent and field gunners like
him spent gruelling months supporting the infantry in the trenches.
Theirs was a very different war, as dangerous or more at times as
the one on the front lines. As an ordinary Canadian writing letters
home to ordinary people, Sargent gives a wrenching, insightful
account of a tight-knit band of soldiers swept up in some of the
most important battles of the war that shaped the twentieth
century.
Posted just behind the front lines, Sargent and field gunners like
him spent gruelling months supporting the infantry in the trenches.
Theirs was a very different war, as dangerous or more at times as
the one on the front lines. As an ordinary Canadian writing letters
home to ordinary people, Sargent gives a wrenching, insightful
account of a tight-knit band of soldiers swept up in some of the
most important battles of the war that shaped the twentieth
century.Thunder in the Skies
Thunder in the Skies details the daily life of artillerymen
fighting in the First World War in a way no other book has before.
details the daily life of artillerymen
fighting in the First World War in a way no other book has before.