Description

Sergeant-Major Ernest Shephard took part in the 2nd battle of Ypres and the Somme battle of July 1916 and was commissioned 2nd Lt in November 1916. A first-class soldier with a strong regimental pride, to read Shephard’s diaries is to gain an insight into how the British Army managed to sustain its morale throughout the horror of the Western front. He provides a fascinating account of the daily routines of trench warfare, as well as chillingly evocative descriptions of set-piece battles from one who was very much at the sharp end of the Great War. These diaries, written while on active service, lay undisturbed for more than sixty years in a chocolate box. Now edited by Bruce Rossor, with Dr Richard Holmes, they are of major historical importance.

PLEASE NOTE – This book is now out of print. Therefore The Keep is selling Second Hand copies. Condition: good. Paperback; pages yellowed, otherwise good in faded and creased card covers and other signs of ware and tare.