Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from One Young Man: The Simple and True Story of a Clerk Who Enlisted in 1914, Who Fought on the Western Front for Nearly Two Years, Was Severely Wounded at the Battle of the Somme, and Is Now on His Way Back to His Desk
And so I need not warn you at the be ginning that this book does not end with a V.C. And cheering throngs. It may possi bly end with wedding bells, but you 'will agree there's nothing out of the common about that - and a good job too.
I think on the whole I will keep Sydney Baxter's real name to myself. For one thing he is still in the army; for another he is expected back at the same othee when he is discharged from hospital. It's rather beginning at the wrong end to mention the hospital at this stage, but, as I've done so.
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