ScifiJoan you’re welcome!
21) Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth by Paul Ham another travel memory is visiting the Passchendaele Museum which is dedicated to the Battle for Passchendaele (also known as The Third Battle of Ypres) in Belgium which allows you to walk through and experience walking through bunkers and trenches. This is a pretty little village, but in 1917 it would be the centre of a battlefield in which there were many casualties, but not much gain on both sides of the war. Well written and sobering
22) The Western Front Diaries by Jonathan King continuing the WWI theme here with this one. Up until now, I had been reading a general history or of course the stories of the top military brass of the time. It begs the question what was the war like for those on the ground? The men in the trenches risking life and limb for a place so far removed from the land they grew up in? King in this book paints an enthralling account of the experiences of the Australian soldier battle by battle through the diaries and letters of the men who were in the trenches and how the experience for those who survived the horror would not only physically but mentally scar them.
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