Lt. -Col. Rowland Feilding

War Letters to a Wife (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos.Lieutenant-Colonel Rowland Feilding began his military career as a front line soldier in World War I and a leader of men, preferring to volunteer for a dangerous duty rather than order a subordinate to do so in his place. With a narrative broken only by the months he spent recuperating from wounds, Feilding was blessed with an extraordinary luck: his survival was a mystery even to his comrades. Vivid yet unexaggerated in its depiction of life at the front, Feilding's letters to his wife, Edith Stapleton-Bretherton, are driven by his thoughts, emotions and experiences of the war, and of home. Written with the events still fresh in his mind-and often while still on the battlefield or in the trenches-, these letters form one of the most compelling accounts of the Western Front during the First World War. Compelling reading.-Print ed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lucknow Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787201859
• Artikelnr.: 47219221

Autorenporträt

Lieut.-Col. Rowland Charles Feilding (May 18, 1871 - Sep 5, 1945) was the son of a Church of England cleric with English and Austrian connections, and a civil engineer by training. During 1896 he was in South Africa and fought in the Matabele Wars, joining 'Gifford's Horse', which protected white settlers. He later served in the Lancashire Fusiliers, at the outbreak of World War I in 1914, was serving in a territorial unit, but in 1915 transferred to the service of the Coldstream Guards (Special Reserve), where he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and with whom he served in France until joining the 6th Connaughts in 1916. Feilding was decorated with the award of the Companion, Distinguished Service Order in 1917. Following the disbandment of the 6th Connaught Rangers in 1918, Feilding joined the 1/15th Londons (Civil Service Rifles).