At war with the 16th Irish Division 1914-1918 : the Staniforth letters / edited by Richard S. Grayson ; in association with Imperial War Museums.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Staniforth, Maxwell, author.

Imperial War Museums (Great Britain), author.

Contributor:

Grayson, Richard S., 1969- editor.

Imperial War Museums (Great Britain), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Staniforth, Maxwell--Correspondence.

Staniforth, Maxwell.

Great Britain. Army. Division, 16th--History.

Great Britain.

World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, British.

World War, 1914-1918.

Soldiers--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Soldiers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 p.)

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The letters of John 'Max' Staniforth are among the most perceptive, graphic and evocative personal records of a soldier's life to have come down to us from the Great War. They cover his entire wartime career with the 16th (Irish) Division, from his enlistment in 1914 till the armistice, and they have never been published before. From his first days in the army, Staniforth wrote fluent, descriptive weekly letters to his parents and, in doing so, he created a fascinating record of his experiences and those of the men around him. When the division arrived on the Western Front in 1915, he related

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Editor�s Introduction""; ""Author�s Foreword""; ""Abbreviations""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Chapter 1 - �A fearful mutiny�: Training in the Ranks, October to November 1914""; ""Chapter 2 - �The time of my life�: Order and Orders, November 1914 to March 1915""; ""Chapter 3 - �Thrills enough to satisfy the most reckless glory-hunters�: Signals Training, April to September 1915""; ""Chapter 4 - �The sun slipping west over the snowy fields�: England, September to December 1915""

""Chapter 5 - �Greyish ashen squalor of filthy humanity�: First Impressions of Trenches, December 1915 to February 1916""""Chapter 6 - �Covered with fresh blood�: Cambrin, February to March 1916""; ""Chapter 7 - �I�ve had miraculous escapes�: Puits 14 Bis and Hulluch, March to May 1916""; ""Chapter 8 - �We were all quite mad�: Raiding, June to August 1916""; ""Chapter 9 - �Sitting in pyjamas in the sun�: Hospital, August 1916""; ""Chapter 10 - �One continuous ear-splitting roar�: The Somme, September 1916""

""Chapter 11 - �A nest of Sinn Feinery�: Limerick, March to April 1917""""Chapter 12 - �Worse than the Somme!!�: �Passchendaele�, June to August 1917""; ""Chapter 13 - �The milk and whiskey are blocks of ice�: Cambrai and Paperwork, August 1917 to January 1918""; ""Chapter 14 - �The Division has ceased to exist�: Disbandment and the German Spring Offensive, February to April 1918""; ""Chapter 15 - �Keeping on keeping on�: The 2nd Leinsters, May 1918""; ""Chapter 16 - �A “blighty one� at last!� Gassed, May to June 1918""

""Chapter 17 - �A roaring, surging wave of sound�: Portsmouth and Peace, August 1918 to December 1985""""Further reading""; ""Appendix""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Notes:

"J. H. M. Staniforth"--Front jacket.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233) and index.

ISBN:

9781783032099

178303209X

9781783032112

1783032111

OCLC:

854974789