From The Somme To The Armistice - The Memoirs Of Captain Stormont Gibbs, Mc
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Stormont Gibbs was commissioned into the 4th Suffolk in 1915 and first saw action at the height of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916; against the odds he survived and was to take part in Arras in 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres and the retreat in 1918. By this time he was a battle-hardened veteran. His recollections are edited and set in their historical context by Richard Devonald-Lewis one of his former pupils during his later career as a schoolmaster. From the first day of the Somme offensive on 1st July 1916 until it petered out several months later, there were a half a million casualties on the Allied side alone, most of them volunteers for Kitchener's Army who had rushed so eagerly to enlist two years before; hope and ideals died with them and only grim determination remained for the British Tommy, a determination that two years later ended in victory. This edition is in very good condition, tightly bound with clean pages. the hardback cover and dust jacket are unmarked.
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