Guillemont (ePub)
Imprint: Battleground
File Size: 14.5 MB (.epub)
ISBN: 9781783461486
eBook Released: 1st August 2007
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The battle for Guillemont raged throughout August 1916. Like so many of the battles into which the 'Big Push' degenerated, the struggle centred around a wood, Trones, and a heavily fortified village. It was in this battle that Noel Chavasse won the first of his two VCs.
The battle for Guillemont raged throughout August 1916. Like so many of the battles into which the 'Big Push' degenerated, the struggle centred around a wood, Trones, and a heavily fortified village. It was in this battle that Noel Chavasse won the first of his two VCs.
Books Monthly
It was fairly near to Guillemont where my grandfather, Arthur Robert Norman became involved in the fighting just a couple of months after being called up, and where he lost his life, in August 2016. I am personallysaddened by the fact that no one in my family ever spoke about him or his wife during my lifetime, and I am reading each and every one of Pen and Sword's books on the Somme in the hope of finding out more about him and his regiment, the Middlesex regiment. There's nothing I don't already know about the Middx. Regt., in this superlative book, but nevertheless, I wouldn't be without it for obvious reasons. Stirring stuff.
About Michael Stedman
Michael Stedman was born in Salford in 1949 and graduated from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne after which he became a school teacher in Manchester for 24 years.
During the 1980's his first book,The Salford Pals, was published, followed in the early 1990's by The Manchester Pals. He moved to Worcester in 1994, subsequently devoting his time to many projects most of which centre on the Great War's history. Since 1995 he has written numerous books on the history of the Great War including,Thiepval, La Boisselle, Fricourt, Guillemont and Advance to Victory in the Battleground Europe Series as well as Great Battles of the Great War which accompanied a Tyne Tees / ITV series of the same name.
He is married to a doctor, Yvonne, and has two sons.