Before Action - A Poet on the Western Front: William Noel Hodgson and the 9th Devons
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The Great War may have made Hodgson's reputation as a poet but it also killed him. Like so many of his generation he was an unlikely soldier and this first groundbreaking biography explores his early life and his reasons for abandoning it and volunteering for the Army. Today Hodgson is remembered as one of the ill-fated 9th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment whose fate in the opening moments of the Battle of the Somme has become one of the emblematic...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1783463759
ISBN13:9781783463756
Release Date:February 2015
Publisher:Pen & Sword Military
Length:256 Pages
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