Voice from the Ranks

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Voice from the Ranks
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Voice from the Ranks

Timothy Gowing
Edition year 1954
Binding Cloth
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 148
Dimensions 21.8 × 14.6 cm

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Voice from the Ranks, A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign by a Sargeant of the Royal Fusiliers by Timothy Gowing. Edited by Kenneth Fenwick. 32 contemporary wood-engravings from battlefield sketches including the full-page frontispiece of Sergeant-Major Timothy Gowing. Bound in red cloth blocked with an engraving in dark blue and gold. Red dust-jacket printed in white and dark blue. 21.8x14.6cm. 148pp

About the book

In Voice from the Ranks, Timothy Gowing recounts the Crimean campaign from the perspective of a soldier in the Royal Fusiliers. His account brings the siege of Sevastopol and the hardships of army service down to the level of the men who endured them: exhausting duty, shortages, exposure, comradeship and the uncertainty of battle. Gowing's direct observations provide a valuable counterpart to histories centred on commanders and strategy. This is both a personal military memoir and an eyewitness record of the everyday realities behind one of Victorian Britain's most controversial wars.

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