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Diary of a Dead Officer Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West

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ISBN-10: 1853677299

ISBN-13: 9781853677298

Edition: 2007

Authors: Arthur Graeme West, Nigel Jones

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The Diary of a Dead Officer brings together the private papers of Arthur Graeme West. First published posthumously in 1917, it presents a scathing picture of army life, and West's poems, which make up the fifth section of the book, serve as a powerful protest against the futility of war. Born in September 1891, West was a quiet, effacing and unathletic youth with a passion for literature, who went on to become a keen Oxford scholar. When war broke out in 1914, it left him for some time untouched. However in January 1915, in a rush of enthusiasm, he enlisted as a Private in the Schools Battalion. From that time, until his death in April 1917, his life was a succession of training in England…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Greenhill Book
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Nigel Jones is a former deputy editor of History Today and BBC History magazines who is now a full-time historian and biographer. He has written books on subjects as diverse as Rupert Brooke, Patrick Hamilton and Nazi Germany, appeared on historical documentaries on BBC TV and radio and written and reviewed for most national newspapers. He conducted the author interviews for the Daily Mail Book Club; and reads for serialisation for the Daily Mail. His reviews appear frequently in the Sunday Telegraph, Literary Review and History Today. Nigel is founder-director of www.historicaltrips.com He lives near Brighton in East Sussex with his partner and three children. Tower is his most ambitious…