Description
Title: Carrying on after the first hundred thousand
Author: Hay, Ian
Condition: Very Good – has been rebound.
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1917
ISBN: N/A
Cover: Hard Cover without Dust Jacket – 316 pages
Comments:Carrying On is a matter of fact account of life in the trenches in Flanders seen through the eyes of the men of one regiment known as the “Hairy Jocks”, undoubtedly based on the experiences of the author who was an officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. It is a sequel to his story of the first year of World War 1 up to the Battle of Loos, The First Hundred Thousand, which was published in 1915 and became one of the most popular books of the period. It isn’t really a novel but an anecdotal description of life in the army in Flanders with factual accounts of what the soldiers would do when they were given relief from being in the frontline, how the quartermasters would go about getting the men billeted, relationships with the local people, how the communications system worked as well as descriptions of the devastation of towns and villages (particularly Ypres), of life in the trenches and of the fighting. It takes the story of the war up to the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
