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| Somme Mud | 
 enlarge | Author: E.p.f. Lynch
Creator: William Davies
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 31242
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0385612788
EAN: 9780385612784
ASIN: 0385612788
Publication Date: February 11, 2008
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 One of the best books about the war on the western front July 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have read many books on the first world war and the western front in particular. Many of these have been excellent, such as the Lyn McDonald books, which give great insight into the horrors that the ordinary soldier had to endure. What sets this work apart from them is that it is a full acount of the war, written by an ordinary man in exceptional circumstances. It soon becomes clear that staying alive was just as difficult during spells of 'holding the line' as it was during a major battle. An incredible tale, honestly told with bravery and dignity. A must-read.
Probably the truest account of Western Front soldiering. May 22, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
There are books about the Great War, and then there is Somme Mud.
The days of glorified war stories are over, and this book takes the reader on a gritty, totally from-the-heart account of every horrific day in the Western Front.
Whilst full of frightening moments, it also conveys the real sense of comradeship and frequent dark humour of those serving under conditions none of us can know today.
What struck me most about this book was the reminder that the prospect of being sniped, shelled (sometimes by your own side), gassed, or just drowned in flooded shell holes, was present every moment of just about every day. It's also a stark reminder of the appalling conditions men endured for several years.
A brilliant book that ranks amongst the best ever written in terms of actually comprehending - as far as we can today - what men went through, far from home.
brilliant throughout May 9, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
fantastic read,a must for anybody with an intrest in this period of history. A book thats once i started found hard to put down, gripping and fantastically detailed of the lives they lived fighting the first world war.
Somme Mud May 3, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought this book as it sounded an interesting read. At first the way it is written takes a bit of getting used to, it isn't written after all by a professional story teller - the original text was penned by a soldier, Private Lynch, on returning from the Great War where, as an Australian infantryman, he fought in the front line and acted as a 'runner' for his CO. On his return in 1919, amazingly still alive, he wrote it all down in a number of exercise books as a method of making sense and coming to terms of the whole experience. The book is written as a diary and describes the every day life of a soldier on the front line. He gets wounded a couple of times and describes the deaths of others around him but, amazingly, he comes through scrape after scrape. The horror of his situation is all too real right down to the hand to hand trench bayonette fighting and the tragic losses on both sides. There are plenty of WW1 books written to clinically analyse the battles but Private Edward Lynch had the foresight to write down what he and others actually experienced. Some of the things he describes are vivid and horific but we all have a duty to read books like this, in my opinion, so we don't forget that we owe them our respect.
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