SOME DESPERATE GLORY
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG OFFICER
EDWIN CAMPION VAUGHAN
PB 1985
ISBN 0333387279
Some Desperate Glory charts the progress of an
enthusiastic and patriotic young officer who marched into battle with
Palgrave's Golden Treasury 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.
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