More Than Just A Life - Tapa blanda

Little, Steve

 
9781449070892: More Than Just A Life
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ISBN 10: 1449070892 ISBN 13: 9781449070892
Editorial: AuthorHouse, 2010

Sinopsis

Young Eddie Wilson was a footballer on the threshold of a professional career with a prominent club. Then came the Great War of 1914-1918. Once called up into the Army he was sent without completing his training into the frontline in Belgium. There he was subjected to the horrors of trench warfare at Passchendaele. Within a very short space of time nearly all the friends and comrades that he had gone to the Front with had either been killed or injured. Dazed and confused he wandered away from the action having had a breakdown. Eventually a young, attractive French widow took him into her home. She nursed him back to health over the next year or so until he was captured in Calais by a Military Policeman, Frank Shipley. The two men travelled back to Belgium for the Court Martial and during this eventful journey they formed a friendship that was to have a great significance more than 75 years later. Many of Eddie's friends and supporters thought him more hero than coward. The outcome of his Court Martial was to depend on crucial evidence relating to his state of mind and, more importantly, likely confirmation of his previous heroism awaited from England. The story deals with the highly emotive aspect of the ordeal of the ordinary soldier and the wanton waste of young lives together with the effects of the harsh discipline of the Army.

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Reseña del editor

Young Eddie Wilson was a footballer on the threshold of a professional career with a prominent club. Then came the Great War of 1914-1918. Once called up into the Army he was sent without completing his training into the frontline in Belgium. There he was subjected to the horrors of trench warfare at Passchendaele. Within a very short space of time nearly all the friends and comrades that he had gone to the Front with had either been killed or injured. Dazed and confused he wandered away from the action having had a breakdown. Eventually a young, attractive French widow took him into her home. She nursed him back to health over the next year or so until he was captured in Calais by a Military Policeman, Frank Shipley. The two men travelled back to Belgium for the Court Martial and during this eventful journey they formed a friendship that was to have a great significance more than 75 years later. Many of Eddie's friends and supporters thought him more hero than coward. The outcome of his Court Martial was to depend on crucial evidence relating to his state of mind and, more importantly, likely confirmation of his previous heroism awaited from England. The story deals with the highly emotive aspect of the ordeal of the ordinary soldier and the wanton waste of young lives together with the effects of the harsh discipline of the Army.

Biografía del autor

Steve Little was born in 1949 and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford. After a working lifetime in the financial services industry he felt semi-retirement was now the time to write about the experiences his grandfathers and their brothers faced in World War One. His great uncle, aged only 18, had disappeared in one of the many battles in Belgium in 1918. It was presumed he was killed but there is no known grave but just his name on a memorial near Ypres. This book was lovingly put together in memory of these relatives. It draws on the many stories told by them over the years before their deaths. Steve lives in Leatherhead, Surrey and has been married for almost 40 years and has two grown up children and two grandchildren. He is an avid student of military history and in particular the two World Wars. What spare time he has is spent enjoying gardening, golf and watching football and cricket. He is currently writing a sequel to "More Than Just A Life" called "Joining Forces" and also a book of light hearted short stories of life at the Grammar School in the 1960s entitled "Days we'll remember all our lives"

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Editorial
AuthorHouse
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1449070892
ISBN 13 
9781449070892
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
312
Contacto del fabricante
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