A Very Unimportant Officer
Life and Death on the Somme and at Passchendaele
$28.73
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2009
Summary
Rediscovered after 80 years gathering dust on a family bookshelf and first brought to public attention on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, A VERY UNIMPORTANT OFFICER is a detailed and intimate account of the experience of Captain Stewart, an ordinary officer in the front line in France and Flanders throughout 1916 and 1917.
Recruited to The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1915 at the age of 33, Captain Stewart went ‘over the top’ many times, outliving ‘so many better men’, as …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340977125 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340977124 |
| Author: | Cameron Stewart, Alexander Stewart, Captain Alexander Stewart |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
The immediacy, candour and sheer literary merit of his journals make this an important new source for the Great War … a very remarkable man. - Evening Standard
something unusual and fresh on the subject of the Great War … edited sympathetically and unobtrusively by his grandson. - The TimesA vivid account of an infantry officer’s war on the Western Front … should be required reading for those who really want to understand the war. - Richard Holmes, author of Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western FrontHis trench diaries show a different aspect of World War I from the usual images of industrial massacre. - Time OutAbout The Author
Cameron Stewart
Cameron Stewart is Captain Alexander Stewart’s grandson. An actor who has worked extensively in UK television and theatre, he can frequently be heard on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service.
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