[WWI] WW1 books

[Bruce Boldner]

Thanks Mike. I'll try and get my hands on a copy.

Regards,

Bruce.

At 12:24 AM 6/12/2009, you wrote:
>Bruce
>I would suggest getting/reading "No Parachute" by Arthur Gould Lee. Lots of
>good airplane stuff and he also knew how to write. He injects his own sense
>of humor into his writing and that sets it apart a little bit from other
>narratives by the pilots.
>Mike Muth
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On
>Behalf Of Bruce Boldner
>Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:11 AM
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>Subject: [WWI] WW1 books
>
>I've been noting the titles of ww1 books that list members have been
>recommending, with the intention to try and obtain them.
>
>Many of you, I am sure, will have read 'The Middle Parts of Fortune'
>by Frederic Manning.
>
>This isn't a novel about airplanes or tanks. However, it is the life
>of men in the trenches at Somme and Ancre in 1916, written by one who
>was there.
>
>For those of you who might not have read it, let me quote the
>opinions of greater men than I.
>
>Hemingway wrote of the book: "It is the finest and noblest book of
>men in war that I have ever read. I read it over once each year to
>remember how things really were so that I will never lie to
>myself  nor to anyone else about them."
>
>Lawrence of Arabia wrote: "No praise could be too sheer for this
>book. I am sure that it is the book of books as far as the British
>army-in -the -war is concerned."
>
>Bruce Boldner.