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For Love and Courage: The Letters of Lieutentant Colonel E.W. Hermon from the Western Front 1914-1917 | 
 enlarge | Author: E.w. Hermon
Creator: Anne Nason
Publisher: Preface Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: £20.00
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 177790
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 1848090390
EAN: 9781848090392
ASIN: 1848090390
Publication Date: September 4, 2008
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 A excellent account of life on the Western Front September 26, 2008
S. Bingley (Portishead, U.K.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In the words of Lieutenant Colonel Hermon - this is a "top hole" book. A brilliant account of life on the Western Front, which will bring a lump to the throat and at times send shivers down your spine. You cannot fail to warm to Lt Colonel Hermon, who appeared to be a "thoroughly decent cove" and the sort of person you would want by your side in battle.
Anyone with or without an interest in the First World War would enjoy this book.
Deeply Moving Book October 13, 2008
Ms. C. A. Kavanagh
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For Love and Courage was a very moving book, one that was difficult to put down. Ther conditions the soldiers faced in the First World War were brought vividly to life through the letters of E W Harmon to his wife at home. I would recommend this book to any reader, not just as a thought provoking piece of literature but also as history lesson.
 Shows many contentious issues relating to the class war of ww1 January 7, 2009
Peter A. Colwill (England)
A well documented account of an Officers fortuitous lifestyle during ww1. Whilst his men face many hardships, which readers will have read about from other sources, this pompous officer is delighting in 3 course meals with wine in French restaurants intercoursing with other officers and enjoying the noise of explosions close by.
It is unfortunate that so many men were below this lifestyle and had a far rougher existence in the trenches. It is a history of sorts but it must be said that these officers treated their men apallingly and were only interested in establishing home comforts asap with the least ammount of elbow grease on their part.
It is an interesting account and I feel it holds a great deal of our social history in its content. One can only imagine how bad it must have been if you were not an officer and fell short of any social standing in the community at home. Class distinction was at its height during ww1 and fortunately it is becoming far less a stigma these days if one is born into the working classes.
Little has been done to give the reader a historical account of the places that Hermon was in and the reader is left to plough through the diary leaving it at times to find out about various places described without detail.
Good but not great.
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