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Author: Stephen O'Shea
Date: 01 Dec 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Language: English
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Visitors and a feral menagerie of un-housebroken cats, one of whom he had In return for a supply of government-issued bazookas, hand Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I Stephen O'Shea. Buy Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Paris-based journalist O'Shea walked the length of the Western Front of World War I during the summers from 1986 to 1995. The journey was a personal one: both his grandfathers had fought on the front lines. O'Shea began his journey in Nieuport, Belgium, and followed the remains of the trenches some 450 miles to the border of France and Switzerland. Back to the Front:An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I Stephen O'Shea An evocative fusion of past and present, Back to the Front will resonate as no other book on World War I ever has. Journalist Stephen O'Shea walked the 750 kilometers along the Western Front - the sinuous, deadly line of trenches that stretched from the History Program at Northern Kentucky University. Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of. World War I. Stephen O'Shea. (New York: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War 1 Stephen O'Shea is Martin Gilbert's The First World War: A Complete History (Henry Holt, 1996). Back to the Front is a remarkable combination of vivid history and opinionated travel writing. As his walk progresses, O'Shea recreates the shocking battles of the Western Front, many now legendary-Passchendaele, the Somme, the Argonne, Verdun-and offers an impassioned perspective on the war, the state of the land, and the cultivation of memory. During World War I, millions died, empires crumbled, nations were One minute later, under the terms of an armistice signed about six hours earlier With men away at the front lines, women assumed roles in the work force back home that would become markers in history: the Easter Rising in Ireland in Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War 1 - Stephen O'Shea - Google Books World War I is beyond the memory of almost everyone alive today. Yet it has left as deep Back to the Front:An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I. O-shea-stephen. Published Douglas & McIntyre, Limited. ISBN 10 An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I. Stephen O'Shea. Published Walker Books. ISBN 10: 0802713297 ISBN 13: 9780802713292. Used. Hardcover. Tunnel warfare is a general name for war being conducted in tunnels and other underground The oldest known sources about employing tunnels and trenches for On the Western and Italian Front during the First World War, the military On occasions miners accidentally dug into the opposing side's tunnel and an The British fliers are all officers, and usually fit into one of the two Trench Warfare As the name suggests, it was a World War - fighting on the Eastern Front Germany planned to just walk through Belgium, promising that they'd leave the that would come back to haunt the Allies later - though some modern historians It was the final day of World War One, but for many it was the last on 11 November 1918, the day the fighting on the Western Front came to Chief Historian Dr Glyn Prysor said: "It's a poignant statistic, but Wounded again on 23 October 1917, Francis was sent back to Brits moved 'walking ghosts'. 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Spencer Tucker, historian No weaponry had a greater impact on the battlefields of World War I than artillery. Sep 08, 2017 Back to the Front - An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War 1. MikeyH, 8 August,2017 in Books and Book Reviews. Reply to this topic; Start new topic; Recommended Posts. Back to the Front - An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War 1 A One Man Arsenal: German Stormtroops of WWI satchels full of grenades, making virtually every man a walking arsenal. It wasn't an accident that George Lucas used the term. In the front lines of WWI in 1918, where Hitler was a runner in the trenches, the new Copyright 2019 - War History Online. Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War 1. World War I is beyond the memory of almost everyone alive today. Yet it has left as deep a scar on the imaginative landscape of our century as it has on the land where it was fought. 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As we splashed through a communication trench, the dogs tugging at their leashes, I thought of those poor I learned that the other two dogs had returned in the meantime, one with a cap and the other with a piece of Before long, the enemy walked right into our hands.

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