Author: E. W. Hornung Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1786255197 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 575
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Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos E. W. Hornung was a noted English author who wrote around the turn of the Twentieth Century, his most famous creation being the Gentleman Thief, Raffles. During the later years of the First World War (1917-1918), the author visited the military camps of the British army. He was particularly struck by the character of the soldiers in their moments of brief repose out of the firing line and decided to write a semi-fictionalized account of the camps. This volume ‘Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front’ is that account; gripping, emotive and lucid, Hornung’s clear style and vivid eye of detail recreates the British troops that fought in Flanders Fields.
Author: E. W. Hornung Publisher: 谷月社 ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 166
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AN ARK IN THE MUD UNDER WAY A HANDFUL OF MEN SUNDAY ON BOARD CHRISTMAS UP THE LINE UNDER FIRE CASUALTIES AN INTERRUPTED LUNCH CHRISTMAS DAY THE BABES IN THE TRENCHES DETAILS THE JOCKS GUNNERS THE GUARDS A BOY'S GRAVE THE REST HUT FRESH GROUND OPENING DAY THE HUT IN BEING WRITERS AND READERS WAR AND THE MAN 'WE FALL TO RISE' BEFORE THE STORM ANOTHER OPENING DAY THE END OF A BEGINNING THE ROAD BACK IN THE DAY OF BATTLE OTHER OLD FELLOWS THE REST CAMP—AND AFTER
Author: Ernest William Hornung Publisher: Read Books ISBN: 9781473322103 Category : Languages : en Pages : 220
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This early work by Ernest William Hornung was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front' is a work on the First World War and the experiences of the people involved in it. Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England in 1866. After working briefly as a journalist, and publishing a series of poems in The Times, Hornung created the character for which he is best-remembered: A. J. Raffles, a "gentleman thief" plying his trade in Victorian London.
Author: E. W. Hornung Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330545997 Category : Languages : en Pages : 264
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Excerpt from Notes of a Camp-Follower, on the Western Front The hut - leader ushered me on board with the courtesy of a young commander inducting an elderly new mate; the difierence was that I had all the ropes to learn, with the possible exception of one he had already shown me on our way from the local headquarters of the The battered town was full of English soldiers, to whom indeed it owed its continued existence on the right side of the Line. In the gathering twilight, and the deeper shade of beetling ruins, most of them saluted either my leader's British warm, or my own voluminous trench-coat (with fleece lining) on the supposition of officers within. Left to myself, I should have done the wrong thing every time. It is expressly out of order for a camp-follower to give or take salutes. Yet what is he to do, when he gets a beauty from one whose boots he is unfit to black My leader had been showing me, with a pleasant nod and a genial civilian gesture, easier to emulate than to acquire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Bill Bell Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192894692 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 292
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This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War. What was the role of reading in extreme circumstances? How were new meanings made under strange skies? How was reading connected with mobile communities in an age of expansion? Uncovering a vast range of sources from the period, from diaries, periodicals, and literary culture, Bill Bell reveals some remarkable and unanticipated insights into the way that reading operated within and upon the British Empire for over a century.
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Author: E. W. Hornung
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Author: Ernest William Hornung
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Author: Bill Bell