Hell, Hope and Heroes: Life in the Field Ambulance in World War I Tapa blanda - 2005

Rosenberg Publishing, 2005 8vo pp272 bw plates index F- Australian memoir of ww1 service in Egypt and France. Edited by the author's son.

Rosenberg Publishing, Sydney, 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 272 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Library stamps etc only on endpapers, half-title page.. In 1915, Private Roy Ramsay, freshly trained at a camp near Brisbane, sets sail from Australia for the Middle East with the 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance. Serving on hospital ships in the Dardanelles and evacuating a mounting number of sick and wounded, they learn about the battles from the wounded. Serving with the 1st Division 3rd Field Ambulance on the Western Front, he goes through Pozieres and other major set-piece battles of trench warfare. Amid the hell of artillery bombardment and machine gun fire, Roy finds some glimmer of hope for the human race in the fact that both sides often exercise… Leer más

Sydney: Rosenberg, 2005. 272pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, Order of Battle, bw ills, maps. Pictorial card. Slightest of edge wear. SIGNED with personal inscription by Ron Ramsay, editor of the memoir and the subjects son, on laid in label inside front cover. Ron Ramsay served with the 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance in Egypt and on hospital ships in the Dardanelles. He went on to serve with the 1st Division 3rd Field Ambualnce on the Western Front, where he went through Pozieres and other major battles of trench warfare. . Signed by Editior. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.