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'If You're Reading This: Last Letters from the Front Line'
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Written by Sian Price ISBN: 978-1-84832-610-1 Frontline Books, Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2011, £19.99, 292pp, ills, pictures, notes, index For those readers who wish to gain an understanding of how soldiers feel when facing the prospect of death, this book is worth a read. It is based upon soldiers' letters home and,whilst not a new subject in …
Simon Keable Elliott - Robert Keable - An utterly immoral WW1 Chaplin
Simon introduces us to Robert Keable. Robert was an Army Chaplin during the Great War and had a relationship with a nurse resulting in him leaving his wife and writing a book. We'll leave Simon to tell more on this fascinating story!!
‘Observation Balloons on the Western Front – an "over view" ' by Vernon Creek
About this talk: Many groups of combatants could claim to be the unsung heroes of the Great War. But the men flying observation balloons must have a particularly strong claim. Operating at 1200-1800 meters above the front lines, the crew had nothing between their feet and the ground but a centimetre or two of wicker basket. The crews (or 'balloonat…