My Body Is Private by Linda Walvoord Girard

My Body Is Private by Linda Walvoord Girard

Words from the firing line

Sir Walter Wood was well known for his anthologies of descriptions and personal accounts of military experiences and other deeds that forged the British Empire. The outbreak of the First World War in the summer of 1914 provided him with an enormous resource of material which he gleaned from interviews with British soldiers and sailors returning from the battlefield. During the first two years of the conflict Wood collected, and published in two volumes, forty two gripping accounts, from both officers and men-including cavalrymen, infantrymen, engineers, dispatch riders, artillerymen and a host of others who were engaged in the fighting. 'In the Line of Battle, ' he concentrated on the opening campaigns of the war, including the retreat from Mons, the battles of the Marne and Aisne to the First Battle of Ypres, and included first hand accounts of early naval engagements and the German naval raid on Hartlepool. 'Soldiers Stories of the War, ' mainly covered the campaigns of 1915 on the Western Front, but also included the Dardanelles expedition. This unique, good value Leonaur edition, published to coincide with the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, brings together the full content of both books in one substantial edition. Absolutely nothing can compare with the words of those recounting their very recent experiences and in this edition, those voices reach across time to provide powerful, poignant and revealing insights into the First World War.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

Friedman, Judith: -

Judith Friedman has been illustrating children's books for more than 25 years. She enjoys cooking for friends, traveling, and wine-making with her husband. She lives in France.

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ISBN 13	9780807553206
ISBN 10	0807553204
Title	My Body Is Private
Author	Linda Walvoord Girard
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Publisher	Albert Whitman & Company
Year published	1987-10-01
Number of pages	32
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