Hidden Stories of the First World War

by Jackie Storer

"Lieutenant William Andrews and his Sappers had been working through the night building a machine gun emplacement in the ruins of the newly retaken French village of Contalmaison when a blast blew him off his feet. The 23-year-old Irishman's helmet had taken the full force of a piece of flying shrapnel which smashed a four inch gash from rim to crown, knocking him unconscious. As William lay on the ground, still dazed but unmarked and strapped to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712357386
• ISBN13: 9780712357388
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: British Library
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"