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Six Weeks. The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War by John Lewis-Stemple
Orion Publishing £20, 358pp, 23 ills (2 in colour), bibliog, index ISBN 978-0-297-86006-8 John Lewis-Stemple’s title deserves a little pedantry; it is simply incorrect. There is simply no foundation in the oft repeated statement that the: ‘average life of a British officer on the Western Front was six (or pick your own figure) weeks’. That it wa...