Ordeal by Fire

This book is a chronological gathering of eyewitness voices from the First World War, adapted from an earlier collection of letters, diaries, and interviews. British soldiers, nurses, and civilians describe mobilisation, Mons, the New Armies, Gallipoli, Loos, the Somme, Third Ypres, and the last campaigns, with the Western Front as the main thread. Macdonald arranges short testimonies so that each phase of the war is told by people who were there rather than by a single narrator. Photographs and contemporary images sit with the extracts. The work is an oral-history reader of 1914-1918, not a campaign monograph and not a novel.

Bound in black and dark-green picture blocked cloth. Pale green-brown or black slipcase. The first printing did not contain the.