FROM TRENCH AND TURRET - ROYAL MARINES’: Letters and Diaries 1914-18 :: Special Offers :: Other Categories

A portrait of the Royal Marines in the Great War - culled from previously unpublished letters and diaries. Scenes from the western front, Gallipoli and Jutland along with glimpses of the Marines at rest and play. A unique history.

One in five of the 55,000 Royal Marines who served in the Great War were killed - a statistic that shows how this elite unit, as ever, were in the thick fo the fiercest fighting. In this moving volume, S.M. Holloway, whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all Marines, has culled accounts of the actions they fought in - on land sea and air - from the letters and diaries of the Marines engaged. From the trenches of the western front, to the seas of Jutland and the beaches of Gallipoli, here, published for the first time, are eye-witness accounts of the fighting in which the Marines were so often first and foremost.In addition there are accounts of life at the front during less frenetic moments - with Marines at rest and play. This is a book for all Great War buffs - and for all those interested in the proud history of the Royal Marines.

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Product Code:	10552
Author:	S. M. Holloway in Association with the Royal Marines Museum
ISBN:	978 1 84529 321 5
Format:	216pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £20.00
Shipping Time:	This item is usually dispatched Next Day
Retail Price:	~~£20.00~~
Our Price:	£4.95 save 75%