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Cover of Brothers in arms the unique collection of letters and photographs from two brothers at the front during the First World War

Brothers in arms the unique collection of letters and photographs from two brothers at the front during the First World War

✍ Scribed by Karen Farrington


Publisher
Pen & Sword Military
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Hidden away in the back of an old desk drawer was a dusty pile of school-style exercise books. In them were the recollections of a young officer who had fought with the Essex Regiment in the First World War from the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915, through the mud and misery of Ypres, to see victory in 1918. Discovering the memoirs of Lieutenant Robert D'Arblay Gybbon-Monypenny was not the only surprise, what was even more remarkable was how well-written they were, how vividly life and death in the trenches was portrayed.

That life in the trenches saw Robert hit by a sniper's bullet, buried in appalling mud-slides, choked in a chlorine gas attack and almost bayoneted by one of his own men, driven insane by the perpetual shelling. Inevitably, he was wounded as he led his men over the top at Arras, yet somehow he survived.

To add to these riches were letters home from both Robert Moneypenny and his brother, and fellow officer, Phillips, who won the...


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