Yet another book from my library. As the regular reader of these reviews will have noticed, I have been reading a lot of books recently about artillery in the First World War. I do find that from time to time I get fixed on a particular subject and tend to read a number of books on that matter.
The author joined up in 1916 and was posted as a very "green" second lieutenant to a newly raised gun battery. The battery served in France, Macedonia and Palestine before returning to France still together as a battery in 1918. By then the author was a captain and he and his battery of amateurs were hardened professional gunners.
The book is in the form of an edited diary and is a very good record of service with lots of interesting information on life in a gun battery. However at the end of the book the writer gives a number of essays on various aspects of artillery matters including for example, the relative merits of horses and mules. These essays are exceedingly interesting and are an excellent reference source.
Another highly recommended book.
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