A Boy from Botwood Pte. A.W. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 1914-1919【電子書籍】[ Bryan Davies ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A proud Newfoundland soldier’s memoir gives unprecedented details of life as a German POW during the First World War.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞I’m going to tell my story.＜/em＞ With those words, eighty-three-year-old Arthur Manuel set his remarkable First World War memoir in motion.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Like many Great War veterans, Manuel had never discussed his wartime life with anyone. Hidden in the Manuel family records until its 2011 discovery by his grandson David Manuel, Arthur’s story is now brought to new life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Determined to escape his impoverished rural Newfoundland existence, he enlisted with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in late 1914. His harrowing accounts of life under fire span the Allies’ ill-fated 1915 Gallipoli campaign, the Regiment’s 1916 near-destruction at Beaumont-Hamel, and his 1917 Passchendaele battlefield capture. Manuel’s account of his seventeen-month POW experience, including his nearly successful escape from a German forced labour camp, provides unique, c．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る