{"product_id":"some-desperate-glory-the-diary-of-a-young-officer-1917-9780333387276","title":"Some Desperate Glory : The Diary of a Young Officer  1917","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn officers diary hidden away for 40 years reveals the horrors of World War One in harrowing detail. The SunSome Desperate Glory charts the progress of an enthusiastic and patriotic young officer who marched into battle with Palgraves Golden Treasury a collection of English poemsin his pack. Intensely honest and revealing  his diary evokes the day-to-day minutiae of trench its constant dangers and mind-numbing routine interspersed with lyrical and sometimes comic interludes. Vividly capturing the spirit of the officers and men at the front  the diary grows in horror and disillusionment as Vaughans company is drawn into the carnage of Passchendaele from which  of his original happy little band of 90 men  only 15 survived.This diary of a few months in the life of a young officer on the Western Front in 1917 deserves to rank close behind Graves  Owen  Sassoon  among the most brilliant and harrowing documents of that devastating period. Max Hastings  author of An Epic Tragedy  1945-1975This stark WW I diary by a 19-year-old subaltern in the British army begins with an account of his eager departure for the western front  and ends eight months later with an awesome description of the battle of Ypres in which most of his company died.  Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652693647413,"sku":"ByrdShop_0333387279","price":281.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780333387276_edbac6ab-55f7-4826-9bb8-a6107b497ea5.jpg?v=1781852441","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/some-desperate-glory-the-diary-of-a-young-officer-1917-9780333387276","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}