Retreat from Death by George Herbert Hill

Retreat from Death by George Herbert Hill

"I was alone in a world gone mad. Death was all around...Useless, filthy death." At 2 o'clock on the morning of 21 March 1918, the Battle of St Quentin began. The German assault, consisting of trench mortars, mustard gas, chlorine gas, tear gas and a heavy artillery bombardment, was said to be one of the most fierce and devastating of the Great War. Over the course of 6 days, thousands of British troops lost their lives and yet this would prove to be the turning point of the war - the end was in sight. George Hill was just sixteen when he enlisted into the army, eager to fight for his country and full of pride for the role he would play. After only a few weeks in France, he was in the midst of St Quentin and the full horrors of trench warfare. Incredibly, he survived - one of the few members of his battalion to do so. After several months at the front, he was gassed and spent the last days of the war in a field hospital. Hill turned 19 on the day of the armistice. "Retreat from Death" is the harrowing story based on his experiences.

Belfast Telegraph, 18th July 2005: 'A must for anyone interested in the Great War' 'A moving and first-hand account of the Great War' Contemporary Review '(Hill) vividly describes the terror and confusion of life in the trenches where organised warfare was anything but...No one who seeks to understand the many facets of the Great War can afford to miss this account.' Forest Journal

George Herbert Hill was born in Ireland in 1898. Following the year he spent in France during the Great War he became a reporter at the Belfast Telegraph. After the publication of Retreat from Death he worked successively with the scriptwriter Alexander Korda and film producer Brian Desmond Hurst. In 1939 he returned to the Belfast Telegraph as a war correspondent and after the war joined the Daily Mail until his retirement. He died in 1969. Richard Holmes is Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University. He has presented seven BBC documentary series, and has written nearly twenty books on military subjects, most recently the bestselling 'Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914-18'.

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ISBN 13	9781850437543
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Title	Retreat from Death
Author	George Herbert Hill
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2005-06-24
Number of pages	488
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