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THE YOUNG GUARD – World War I Poems & Author's War Memoirs

Biography and Memoir

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THE YOUNG GUARD – World War I Poems & Author's War Memoirs

World War I Poems and Memoirs from the Western Front, with Insights into British SocietyBy E. W. Hornung

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THE YOUNG GUARD – World War I Poems & Author's War Memoirs

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This carefully crafted ebook: "THE YOUNG GUARD – World War I Poems & Author's War Memoirs" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Poems Consecration Lord's Leave Last Post The Old Boys Ruddy Young Ginger The Ballad of Ensign Joy Bond and Free Shell-Shock in Arras The Big Thing Forerunners Uppingham Song Wooden Crosses Memoir Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front E. W. Hornung (1866–1921) was an English author and a war poet and also brother-in-law to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Hornung is known for writing the A. J. Raffles series about a gentleman thief based on a deliberate inversion of the Sherlock Holmes series. Hornung dedicated his creation as a form of flattery to Doyle. Hornung's works are also remembered for giving insight into the social mores of late 19th and early 20th century British society.

World War Poetic War & Battle Hero Grief Coming of Age Psychological Memory Identity

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GenreBiography and Memoir

Length6 hrs 13 mins

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FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateJun 13, 2016

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1THE YOUNG GUARD – World War I Poems &amp; Author’s War Memoirs

23The Babes in the Trenches

2Consecration

24Details

3Lord’s Leave

25Orderly Men

4Last Post

26The Jocks

5The Old Boys

27Gunners

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6Ruddy Young Ginger

28The Guards

7The Ballad of Ensign Joy

29A Boy&#x27;s Grave

8Bond and Free

30The Rest Hut

9Shell-Shock in Arras

31Fresh Ground

10The Big Thing

32Opening Day

11Forerunners1

33The Hut in Being

12Uppingham Song

34Writers and Readers

13Wooden Crosses

35War and the Man

14An Ark in the Mud

36&#x27;We Fall to Rise&#x27;

15Under Way

37Before the Storm

16A Handful of Men

38Another Opening Day

17Sunday on Board

39The End of a Beginning

18Christmas up the Line

40The Road Back

19Under Fire

41In the Day of Battle

20Casualties

42Other Old Fellows

21An Interrupted Lunch

43The Rest Camp—and After

22Christmas Day

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