Coningsby Dawson, a novelist who joined the artillery, wrote these letters to his family from training camp and the trenches of France, and his father edited them with an introduction and notes. They describe continuous shelling, long hours at the guns and the fellowship of the battery, and chart how war changed a young man’s sense of what mattered.
Moving, intimate letters that were widely read in 1917, for anyone drawn to first-hand accounts of the Great War. Download the free EPUB.