For Love and Courage: The Letters of Lieutenant Colonel E.W. Hermon from the Western Front 1914-1917
Published by London: Preface Publishing, 2008
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- Hardcover
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Condition Notes: A little age-toning to the edges of the text block; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over pictorial boards; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (1.2 kg); pp (xvi) 367; Bibliography; Edited by Anne Nason; Includes: List of dramatis personae; Black & white photographs (plates); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #195659 ||.
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- Title
- For Love and Courage: The Letters of Lieutenant Colonel E.W. Hermon from the Western Front 1914-1917
- Author
- E. W. Hermon
- Publisher
- London: Preface Publishing
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- ISBN 10
- 1848090390
- ISBN 13
- 9781848090392
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Biography
Lt. Colonel E.W. Hermon died in a hail of bullets on the 9th of April 1917, the first day of the battle of Arras, leading his men of the 24th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers into the attack. He was shot through the heart, one bullet slicing through the letters in his top pocket, including the four-leaf clover his wife had given him for good luck.
This could have been the end of the story but he left a testament of his life and ideals in a unique and hitherto unknown and unpublished collection of long and detailed letters he wrote to his darling wife and his children, “the Chugs.” Now, nearly a century after his death, he speaks to us of a past, less cynical life, where selflessness, honour, duty and courage were admired above all else.
The letters have been transcribed and edited by Hermon’s granddaughter Anne Nason with the help of James Holland, the distinguished historian. The letters are believed to be unique in their candour and context since Hermon was Battalion Commander and thus his letters were not censored.
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