Thunder in the skies : a Canadian gunner in the Great War
"What was it like to be a field gunner in the Great War? Thunder in the Skies details the daily life of Canadian artillerymen fighting in WWI, in a way no other book has before. Posted just behind the front lines, field gunners spent grueling months supporting the infantry in the trenches. Theirs was a very different war, as dangerous or more at times as the one on the front lines. Drawing on the unpublished letters and diary of field gunner Lt....