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Some Desperate Glory

By: Simon & Schuster

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical & Reference Books (Simon & Schuster)

Last Stocked on 11/17/2023

Product Info

Title
Some Desperate Glory
Publisher
Category
Author
Edwin Campion Vaughan
Publish Year
1989
Pages
232
Dimensions
6.5x9.5x1"
NKG Part #
2148037056
Type
Softcover

Description

Some Desperate Glory charts the progress of an enthusiastic and patriotic young officer who marched into battle with Palgrave’s Golden Treasury —a collection of English poems—in his pack. Intensely honest and revealing, his diary evokes the day-to-day minutiae of trench warfare: its constant dangers and mind-numbing routine interspersed with lyrical and sometimes comic interludes. Vividly capturing the spirit of the officers and men at the front, the diary grows in horror and disillusionment as Vaughan’s company is drawn into the carnage of Passchendaele from which, of his original happy little band of 90 men, only 15 survived.