Nothing of Importance

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - War & Military

Authors: John Bernard Pye Adams In Year : 1917

Book Language: English

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In Memoriam and Preface
First Impressions
Cuinchy and Givenchy
Working-Parties
Rest
On the March
The Bois Français Trenches
More First Impressions
Sniping
On Patrol
'Whom the Gods Love'
'Whom the Gods Love'—(continued).
Officers’ Servants
Mines
Billets
'A certain Man Drew a Bow at a Venture'
Wounded
Conclusion

Fighting in France during the Great War, Bernard Adams, an officer with a Welsh battalion, was moved to chronicle what he saw and experienced: the living conditions and duties of officers and “Tommies” (enlisted men) in their dank, rat-infested trenches and behind the lines; the maiming and deaths; and the quiet periods described in official reports as “nothing of importance”. Adams relates his wounding in June, 1916 and its aftermath. The concluding chapter, which he wrote during his convalescence in “Blighty” (soldiers’ slang for England), is an impassioned reflection on war. Following several months of recuperation Adams returned to the front where, on February 26, 1917 he was wounded again. The following day he died. (Lee Smalley)