Blood And Iron: Letters From The Western Front
by Hugh Montagu Butterworth /
2012 / English / EPUB
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Until now Hugh Butterworth was just one of the millions of lost
soldiers of the Great War, and the extraordinary letters he sent
home from the Western Front have been forgotten. But after more
than ninety years of obscurity, these letters, which describe his
experience of war in poignant detail, have been rediscovered, and
they are published here in full. They are a moving, intensely
personal and beautifully written record by an articulate and
observant man who witnessed at first hand one of the darkest
episodes in European history. In civilian life Butterworth was a
dedicated and much-loved schoolmaster and a gifted cricketer, who
served with distinction as an officer in the Rifle Brigade from the
spring of 1915. His letters give us a telling insight into the
thoughts and reactions of a highly educated, sensitive and
perceptive individual confronted by the horrors of modern warfare.
He was killed on the Bellewaarde ridge near Ypres on 25 September
1915, and his last letter was written on the eve of the action in
which he died.
Until now Hugh Butterworth was just one of the millions of lost
soldiers of the Great War, and the extraordinary letters he sent
home from the Western Front have been forgotten. But after more
than ninety years of obscurity, these letters, which describe his
experience of war in poignant detail, have been rediscovered, and
they are published here in full. They are a moving, intensely
personal and beautifully written record by an articulate and
observant man who witnessed at first hand one of the darkest
episodes in European history. In civilian life Butterworth was a
dedicated and much-loved schoolmaster and a gifted cricketer, who
served with distinction as an officer in the Rifle Brigade from the
spring of 1915. His letters give us a telling insight into the
thoughts and reactions of a highly educated, sensitive and
perceptive individual confronted by the horrors of modern warfare.
He was killed on the Bellewaarde ridge near Ypres on 25 September
1915, and his last letter was written on the eve of the action in
which he died.
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