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Subject(s)

• World War, 1914-1918—Campaigns—Western Front [Browse]
• Soldiers—Scotland—Biography [Browse]
• World War, 1914-1918—Regimental histories—Great Britain [Browse]
• World War, 1914-1918—Personal narratives, British [Browse]
• Glasgow (Scotland)—Biography [Browse]
• Great Britain Army Highland Light Infantry Battalion, 9th—Biography [Browse]
• Coats, Walter J. J. (Walter John Jackson) 1891-1969—Correspondence [Browse]

Editor

• Chojecki, Jan [Browse]
• LoCicero, Michael [Browse]

Summary note

"Walter Coats emerges from this narrative as one of the key chroniclers of the First World War: his letters home read as freshly as they would have done when his family received them all those years ago. Shorn of hysterics or heroics Coats simply recorded what his battalion was experiencing and in so doing he reveals how he and his fellow Glasgow Highlanders responded to the peculiar miseries and excitements of life on the Western Front."-- Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-355) and index.

Contents

• Mobilisation
• France
• Back to the Front
• Machine guns and Nice
• Battle of the Somme
• High Wood
• Brigade staff and the Battle of Arras
• Another summer in France and Flanders
• Third Battle of Ypres and 1918 Spring Offensive
• Endgame
• Getting home
• Epilogue.

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Other title(s)

Letters and diary of Captain Walter J.J. Coats 1914-1919

ISBN

• 9781911096399
• 1911096397

LCCN

2017304330

OCLC

940521316

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