Everyman at War. Sixty Personal Narratives of the War [1930]

Everyman at War. Sixty Personal Narratives of the War [1930]

Author: C B Purdom (Editor)

Year: 1930

Digitised by Google Books from the collection of the University of California, see Source below. If necessary, click on Show More, below. C B Purdom was the editor of Everyman , a magazine for “Books, Drama, Music, Travel”. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman_(magazine) Everyman (magazine) Wikipedia) In the Introduction to Everyman at War he says I invited the readers of EVERYMAN to send me accounts of their actual War experiences, in not more than three thousand words, offering a small prize for the best narrative received. In the course of a few weeks I received over three hundred narratives, of which two hundred and eighty-nine were worth serious consideration. I did not expect so remarkable a result. At least half of them deserved to be printed, and I finally came to the conclusion that a selection of the very best should be made into a book. Contents of Everyman at War THE OLD CONTEMPTIBLES, 1914 The Retreat from Mons, August 23rd-September 5th, 1914 BERNARD JOHN DENORE An Old Contemptible at Le Cateau R. G. HILL The First Battle of Ypres, October 1914. J. F. BELL IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-1918 A Territorial in the Salient F. L. WATSON The First Gas Attack ANTHONY R. H