Download The Emma Gees by Herbert Wes McBride (.MOBI)

The Emma Gees by Herbert Wes McBride
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Overview: "The Emma Gees" is a solid work which is engaging and accessible and has the unmistakable gritty texture of authenticity. There is no doubt that McBride ‘went there’ and ‘did that’ and, even more remarkably, loved nearly every minute of it. The book briefly details his personal voyage to become a Canadian infantryman in the Great War, touches lightly on his training, and then concentrates on his experiences in the trenches as a machine gunner and occasional sniper. The book’s length, large type, and generous margins make a short and easy read–though the horrific details are often hard to take.
However, the book is essentially a slimmed down ‘first’ version of McBride’s true masterpiece "A Rifleman Went To War", and nearly everything in The Emma Gees was later expanded and enhanced for inclusion in that second book. If you’re only going to read one of McBride’s books then read the other one. If you’ve already read that one and you’re looking for more of the same then this book makes a nice follow-up companion.
One notable topic of this book which was not completely included in the second book details McBride’s slow but steady decline into war-weariness. Although his second book does somewhat touch on this, it does not use the same frank language used here.
Genre: Military History