Letters from the trenches: A Soldier of the Great War
Written by Bill Lamin
Narrated by Geoff Annis
3.5/5
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Bill Lamin
Bill Lamin was born in 1948 in the same East Midlands town as his grandfather, the subject of the book. He was educated at Nottingham High School, Welbeck College, the army's sixth form and the Royal Military Acadamy at Sandhurst. Before commissioning, Bill decided against a Military career and left to read Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. He was employed as an aerospace engineer before converting to teaching, becoming Head of Computing at a Cornish Comprehensive school until the summer of 2008. Bill surfs, plays Sunday football (both to a modest standard) and plays the guitar, just about well enough to support a pub gig. Letters From The Trenches is his first book for Michael O'Mara Books.
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Reviews for Letters from the trenches
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As Bill Lamin concedes in the introduction, the letters themselves, from his grandfather in 1917-20, are sometimes lacking in interest, yet as testimony from the frontline during World War I, they deserve to be publicised - the saving grace is Mr Lamin's fulsome explanation of what is going on, what Harry Lamin is saying (between the lines) and the rest. Having researched the wartime experience of a relative myself, I admire the research that has been undertaken to produce this account.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was a fairly simple, straightforward series of letters from a Canadian soldier in WW1. It was enlightening, but the prose came off as rather dry and stagnant in parts. However, it was still worth the read.3 stars.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As the first reviewer said this book is the result of a blog where the letters were first put up. Harry Lamin was a hard-working man with a wife and child. He should not have been asked to go but England was desperate and Harry went to do his duty.Harry tried to be casual and reticent about his experience except perhaps with his brother Jack. What he wrote to his wife Ethel is unknown as she destroyed his letters to her after the war. But from what he says you can see it was 'typical' combat - terror and boredom over and over.The letters show what a junior enlisted man went through at the time, if he survived. If you have any interest in the First World War or indeed in war at all, I recommend the book.