The remarkable First World War diary of Private Harry Drinkwater, published for the first time
Harry Drinkwater (Author)
Harold Victor Drinkwater was born on 19 February 1889 in
Stratford-upon-Avon. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School,
where Shakespeare was educated. A month after war was declared in
1914, Harry volunteered, but failed his medical for being 'half an
inch' too short. He tried again and successfully joined a Pals
battalion in Birmingham. Harry fought on both the Western and
Italian Fronts , receiving the Military Cross in 1917. Harry stayed
in the army for two more years after Armistice was declared. He
died in 1978.
A lost diary of the Great War so brutally vivid you'll feel you are
there in the trenches
*Daily Mail*
One of the best diaries of the First World War
*Rodderick Suddaby, former keeper of the Department of Documents at
the Imperial War Museum*
Unique ... an unvarnished view of the war’s horrors – and its
occasional joys
*Telegraph*
A remarkable insight into the mind of a man who went through WW1 as
an infantryman in the trenches, private and officer ... No-one who
wants to understand the truth about the trenches can ignore this
book
*Colonel John Hughes-Wilson*
Unique ... an unvarnished view of the war’s horrors – and its
occasional joys
*Telegraph*
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