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A Boy from Botwood : Pte. A.W. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 1914-1919
Bryan Davies
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Andrew Traficante
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A proud Newfoundland soldier’s memoir gives unprecedented details of life as a German POW during the First World War.
I’m going to tell my story.
With those words, eighty-three-year-old Arthur Manuel set his remarkable First World War memoir in motion.
Like many Great War veterans, Manuel had never discussed his wartime life with anyone. Hidden in the Manuel family records until its 2011 discovery by his grandson David Manuel, Arthur’s story is now brought to new life.
Determined to escape his impoverished rural Newfoundland existence, he enlisted with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in late 1914. His harrowing accounts of life under fire span the Allies’ ill-fated 1915 Gallipoli campaign, the Regiment’s 1916 near-destruction at Beaumont-Hamel, and his 1917 Passchendaele battlefield capture. Manuel’s account of his seventeen-month POW experience, including his nearly successful escape from a German forced labour camp, provides unique, compelling Great War insights.
Powerful memories undimmed by age shine through Manuel’s lucid prose. His visceral hatred of war, and of the leaders on both sides who permitted such senseless carnage to continue, is ferocious yet tempered by Manuel’s powerful affection for common soldiers like himself, German and Allied alike. This poignant, angry, witty, and provocative account rings true like no other.
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Title
A Boy from Botwood
Subtitle
Pte. A.W. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 1914-1919
Contributors
Bryan Davies
,
Andrew Traficante
Publisher
Dundurn
Publication date
2017-01-21
Pages
176
Print ISBN
9781459736719
eBook ISBN
9781459736726
LC Subjects
World War
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1914-1918 - Personal narratives
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Canadian.
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Soldiers - Newfoundland and Labrador - Biography.
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Newfoundland and Labrador - Biography.
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Biography.
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Personal narratives
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Canadian.
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Autobiographies.
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