Nothing of Importance / A record of eight months at the front with a Welsh battalion, October, 1915, to June, 1916
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About This Book
Bernard Adams arrived in France as a young officer in October 1915, and served in different parts of the front line until he was wounded on the Somme in 1916. His memoir of his time in the trenches - "Nothing of Importance" - is an honest and humane story about war at its most raw. The book is for anybody who wants to know what it felt like on the Western Front.
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- NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE
- NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE A RECORD OF EIGHT MONTHS AT THE FRONT WITH A WELSH BATTALION OCTOBER, 1915, TO JUNE, 1916 BY BERNARD ADAMS WITH A PORTRAIT AND THREE MAPS METHUEN & CO. LTD. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON
- IN MEMORIAM BERNARD ADAMS
- CONTENTS
- MAPS
- ILLUSTRATION
- PREFACE
- NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE
- NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE CHAPTER I FIRST IMPRESSIONS
- CHAPTER II CUINCHY AND GIVENCHY
- CHAPTER III WORKING-PARTIES
- CHAPTER IV REST
- CHAPTER V ON THE MARCH
- CHAPTER VI THE BOIS FRANÇAIS TRENCHES
- CHAPTER VII MORE FIRST IMPRESSIONS
- CHAPTER VIII SNIPING
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- II
- III
- CHAPTER IX ON PATROL
- CHAPTER X “WHOM THE GODS LOVE”
- [Copy] Daily Summary. C 1. (Left Company) 6 p.m. 18.3.16—3.30 p.m. 19.3.16
- CHAPTER XI “WHOM THE GODS LOVE”—(continued)
- [Copy] Special Report—C 1 Section (Left Company)
- CHAPTER XII OFFICERS’ SERVANTS
- CHAPTER XIII MINES
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- II
- CHAPTER XIV BILLETS
- I. Morning
- CHAPTER XV “A CERTAIN MAN DREW A BOW AT A VENTURE”
- CHAPTER XVI WOUNDED
- Monday
- CHAPTER XVII CONCLUSION
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