A Box in the Attic: Rediscovering the Lost Story of a Soldier in the Great War 1914-18. скачать в хорошем качестве

A Box in the Attic: Rediscovering the Lost Story of a Soldier in the Great War 1914-18.

Bill Hoare was twenty-two years old when he was killed on 13 November 1916 at the Battle of the Ancre, one of the last engagements of the Somme offensive. His Great War record was, like that of so many other British soldiers, lost in the Blitz of London in 1940, and his family, who seemed to have struggled to come to terms with their loss, never really discussed what had happened to Bill. In this video, I recreate Bill’s story from a combination of surviving official records, narrative sources such as Llewelyn Wyn Griffith’s wonderful Up to Mametz and Beyond, and from memorabilia connected with his army service which remained hidden in an attaché case for decades. This video is based on an article which I wrote for Stand To! The Journal of the Western Front Association. You can read it here: http://ianstone.london/portfolio_page... All my research is available on my website: http://ianstone.london/research/ If you are interested in the history of London, you may enjoy my blog: http://ianstone.london/blog/ http://ianstone.london