Guest Posted 15 July , 2014 Share Posted 15 July , 2014 Hello all, I am looking to buy a book that focuses on the life of a british officer typically commanding a platoon or company. I have found a book by Richard Van Emden which I have ordered but cannot seem to find any other memoirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4thGordons Posted 15 July , 2014 Share Posted 15 July , 2014 "A Subalten on the Somme" by Max Plowman/Mark Seven(original pseudonym) is a short but I thought pretty good read. Perhaps most famously Edmund Blunden's "Undertones of War" or Sassoon's "Memoires of an Infantry Officer"? Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woollamc Posted 15 July , 2014 Share Posted 15 July , 2014 Robert Graves "Goodbye to all that"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulgranger Posted 15 July , 2014 Share Posted 15 July , 2014 'Some Desperate Glory' Edwin Campion Vaughan 'Stand To' F C Hitchcock 'Twelve Days' S Rogerson Three that are worth a read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted 15 July , 2014 Share Posted 15 July , 2014 Last man standing by norman Collins or poor bloody infantry by Bernard MArtin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asanewt Posted 15 July , 2014 Share Posted 15 July , 2014 Up to Mametz and beyond. Ll W Griffiths, Pen & Sword. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 15 July , 2014 Share Posted 15 July , 2014 A Generation Missing ,C.Carstairs The Weary Road, C.Douie Nothing of Importance, B.Adams A Passionate Prodigality, G.Chapman A Subaltern's War , C.Edmonds A Life Apart ,A.Thomas Hell on Earth,C.V Burder An Infant in Arms, G.H Greenwell And All For What ? D.W.J Cuddeford From the Somme to the Armistice, Stormont Gibbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 16 July , 2014 Share Posted 16 July , 2014 Thanks all. I have made a list of all these books and will slowly start collecting them one by one. Really looking forward to some reading. Just had the Norman Collins book pop though the door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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