Alan Weeks

A Bloody Picnic (eBook, ePUB)

Tommy's Humour, 1914-18

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of the crucial factors that kept Tommy going on the Western Front was his ability to see what was comic in the horror, deprivation and discomfort of trench warfare - an attitude which blossomed further in the rest areas behind the lines. The nature of the comedy ranged from gentle irony to a rougher hilarity that produced full-on belly laughs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752462585
• Artikelnr.: 38400304

Autorenporträt

Alan Weeks is a retired history teacher, who still works part-time as a history adviser to schools. He has written a number of school textbooks, including histories of the First and Second World Wars, and is the author of Tea, Rum & Fags: Sustaining Tommy, 1914-18.