This bloody place : with the incomparable 29th
Mure, A. H.2015
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Captain Albert Mure, a company commander in the 5th Battalion The Royal Scots, spent forty-three days in Gallipoli - far longer than many men who fought there would survive. In those few weeks, this brave, stoical officer was reduced from a fit, determined leader of men to a physical and mental wreck. In simple and honest language, Mure conveys the drama of the first landings, knowing that very shortly afterwards he and his men would be ashore and experiencing the same fate; his sympathy for those under his command is clear. Although suffering from shell shock, when the time came for him to leave the peninsular, he nevertheless felt like a deserter, remarking that, 'you can carry a no-longer-fit soldier's body out of the firing-line, but not his soul.'
Main title:
This bloody place : with the incomparable 29th / by Major A.H. Mure.
Author:
Mure, A. H., author
Edition:
[New] edition / foreword by Richard Van Emden.
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2015.
Collation:
xiv, 160 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: published as With the incomparable 29th. London: Chambers, 1919.
ISBN:
9781473857926 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.426
LC class:
D568.3
Local class:
940.426
Language:
English
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BRN:
1415884