Four Great War books

[Martin Bennitt]

Just outpointing a full-page review in today's Guardian of four recent Great Warbooks, some of which have been mentioned on the Forum but not I think all.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/histor...2280569,00.html

cheers Martin B

[J Banning]

My post has ben deleted as it related to one that Chris Baker had posted but has since deleted. Therefore, to new readers it would make no sense at all.

[bmac]

I think the whole review should be read in order to get the true flavour of what Francis Beckett has to say and why. There is a particular personal point why the first para, unfortunately separated from the rest, reads the way it does.

[Chris_Baker]

Oops. The above two posts will make little sense. I posted something about the header paragraph to the reviews to which I took exception. I deleted my post when intending to edit it (having read the book reviews in full). My apologies.

[stevem49]

I am confused - How did his Grandfather get out of conscription because he had three daughters?

Whilst I believe that everyone should have an opinion, he does seem somewhat bitter about something or other.

As for the white feather - Fred Greaves was given one by a lady on a train. He was in civvies and on his way to Buck house to collect his VC from the King.

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