Bairnsfather lands at Havre in 1914 as a machine-gun officer and is sent to the trenches at Ploegsteert, “Plugstreet” to the troops. He writes of mud, rain, flooded dug-outs, rats, transport farms, a planned attack, and the Christmas Eve when British and German soldiers met in no man’s land.
Funny and humane, it is one of the most engaging soldier’s memoirs of the Great War. Download the free EPUB.