The Best 500 Cockney War Stories

Published in London in the early 1920s, The Best 500 Cockney War Stories comprised, in the words of its newspaper publisher "a remembering and retelling of those war days when laughter sometimes saved men's reason."The tone of the collection was, as the above quote suggests, determinedly humorous, reporting the lighter side of the conflict as viewed by its Cockney participants. Even so, the grimness behind what was in reality a brutal and highly mechanized conflict cut through many of the memoirs.The collection of short memoirs, many illustrated by the famed Bert Thomas, is divided into five categories - Action, Lull, Hospital, High Seas and Here and There. Prefaced by an introduction by Sir Ian Hamilton, the British Commander-in-Chief who oversaw the Allies' unhappy campaign in Gallipoli.

Zusammenfassung

A nostalgic insight into Cockney grit and humour during wartime

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ian Hamilton
• Verlag: Amberley Publishing
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.04.2009
• EAN: 9781848684249
• ISBN: 978-1-84868-424-9
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 231 mm x 18 mm
• Gewicht: 363 g
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945); Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges