IN GOOD COMPANY: The First World War Letters and Diaries of The Hon. William Fraser - Gordon Highlanders

William Fraser (Edited by David Fraser)

ISBN 10: 1473827337 / ISBN 13: 9781473827332

Published by Pen and Sword Military, Barnsley, 2017

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This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. In Good Company is a graphic account by the Hon. William Fraser, Gordon Highlanders, of his service in the First World War. Several times wounded, he went to Flanders in 1914 with the 2nd Battalion and commanded successively a platoon, a company, a Territorial battalion and a Regular battalion, ending the war as a lieutenant-colonel of twenty-eight, having survived the battles of First, Second and Third Ypres, Arras, Cambrai and the final triumphs of 1918. Fraser?s letters and diaries from the front, which compose this absorbing book, were edited by his son, General Sir David Fraser, soldier, biographer, historian, novelist. They provide a vivid, often highly critical and virtually unbroken account of those extraordinary days, seen through the eyes of a young Highland office. In Good Company gives a remarkable insight into some of the most terrible and challenging years of the Army?s life. Ref V 1.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: IN GOOD COMPANY: The First World War Letters and Diaries of The Hon. William Fraser - Gordon Highlanders
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Military, Barnsley
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473827337
• ISBN 13: 9781473827332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

In Good Company is a graphic account by the Hon. William Fraser, Gordon Highlanders, of his service in the First World War. Several times wounded, he went to Flanders in 1914 with the 2nd Battalion and commanded successively a platoon, a company, a Territorial battalion and a Regular battalion, ending the war as a lieutenant-colonel of twenty-eight, having survived the battles of First, Second and Third Ypres, Arras, Cambrai and the final triumphs of 1918.

Fraser’s letters and diaries from the front, which compose this absorbing book, were edited by his son, General Sir David Fraser, soldier, biographer, historian, novelist. They provide a vivid, often highly critical and virtually unbroken account of those extraordinary days, seen through the eyes of a young Highland office. In Good Company gives a remarkable insight into some of the most terrible and challenging years of the Army’s life.