H E L Mellersh: 3 books

This was written when the author was approaching eighty years of age. He fought on the Western front, was wounded three times and ended up catching Spanish flu. By the time he reached eighty, he had absorbed and reconciled himself to the war experiences and had lived through the terrible disappointment...

Siegfried Sassoon’s legacy of poems have made him one of the best-known World War One poets. Apart from his poetry, he is also famous for his protest against the war which was read out in parliament, his threat to refuse to fight anymore, and his single-handed capture of a German trench for which...

This graphically written novel tells of the one man's experiences on the Western front in World War I. It is written with vivid force by a man who was really there. During four intense years he grew up. He changed from an idealistic but ill-informed schoolboy to a man determined that the lessons of...