Letters from the Trenches : A Soldier of the Great War

from xenchu

As the first reviewer said this book is the result of a blog where the letters were first put up. Harry Lamin was a hard-working man with a wife and child. He should not have been asked to go but England was desperate and Harry went to do his duty. Harry tried to be casual and reticent about his ...

from DramMan

As Bill Lamin concedes in the introduction, the letters themselves, from his grandfather in 1917-20, are sometimes lacking in interest, yet as testimony from the frontline during World War I, they deserve to be publicised - the saving grace is Mr Lamin's fulsome explanation of what is going on, w...

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This was a fairly simple, straightforward series of letters from a Canadian soldier in WW1. It was enlightening, but the prose came off as rather dry and stagnant in parts. However, it was still worth the read. 3 stars.