In the middle of another book of accounts of WWI experiences by veterans, including tank crews, nurses, stretcher bearers, doctors, relatives at home, train drivers, horse riders, dog handlers, pigeon handlers, camel handlers, naval crew, air crew and so on. It's split into different sections according to the jobs men and women were recruited or volunteered to do. I didn't know that so many of the nurses and helpers were actually (so called) well-to-do women who volunteered to go to France and Belgium.
I can't put this book down, photographs and all. A no holds barred book, with photographs of things and men which aren't very nice and no editing of the veterans' accounts either.
Sometimes, for a bit of light relief I tuck into one of the Sharpe novels. Watched all the TV series, but never read any of the books (daughter's boyfriend lent me all of his). Hmmm, Sharpe is my light reading material!
My next book is about the parts which animals played in WWI, dogs, pigeons, camels, horses, elephants, donkeys, how they were trained to do what they did, how they were transported over, how they were looked after and all that. So, so interesting this event.
I like autobiographies too. Lorraine Kelly's accounts of her early life in the Glasgow tenements was really intriguing.