Farewell to the Horses

Diary of a British Tommy 1915-1919

Robert Elverstone (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2014
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-5222-4 (ISBN)

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Cady Hoyte, like many other young lads of his generation, proudly joined the army in 1915 to fight for his King and Country. From the Warwickshire town of Nuneaton, he joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry as a gunner in the Machine Gun Corps and quickly found that army life made no concessions for an eager young 19 year old. Never having ridden a horse before, he develops a relationship with the horses, which made it all the harder when he had to say farewell and leave them behind to sail aboard the stricken ship, the Leasowe Castle, to fight in the trenches of France. Written with humour, Cady’s diary gives a detailed account of the daily struggles and constant dangers of army life in the First World War without ever losing sight of his respect for human life.

Robert Elverstone was a primary school literacy teacher for thirty-five years before retiring to become a full-time writer. A keen photographer, musician, and songwriter, he regularly produced school magazines and has written a short History of Hinckley. His first story, Charlotte's Dad, won the Pickwell Books/Walker Books Short Story Competition in 2011.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2014
Zusatzinfo	16 Plates, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7509-5222-9 / 0750952229
ISBN-13	978-0-7509-5222-4 / 9780750952224
Zustand	Neuware