Back to the Front : An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I Adam Lewis Schroeder October 2019

October 2019

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Back to the Front : An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I Adam Lewis Schroeder October 2019Description The Western Front, the sinuous, deadly line of trenches that stretched from the English Channel to Switzerland during the First World War, also formed a scar on the imaginative landscape of our century. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, armed only with a backpack, a compass and a silver hip flask, Stephen O'Shea set out to walk the trenches of the Western Front. In this account of his 750 kilometre trek, he brings a refreshing