From Messines to Third Ypres: A Personal Account of the First World War by a 2/5th Lancashire Fusilier

of the Lancashire Fusiliers. It is a detailed account where personalities and small events seem to fifi ll its pages to become tellingly signififi cant-whole lifetimes seem to pass in months. Life in the trenches is recorded with all its dangers, tragedies and discomforts punctuated by lighter moments, as we share the inexorable build-up to the big attack and the fury of war that changed and ended lives in minutes. This is a fifi rst rate, intimate and personal account of the Western Front warfare the British infantry knew.Floyd, Thomas is the author of 'From Messines to Third Ypres: A Personal Account of the First World War by a 2/5th Lancashire Fusilier', published 2007 under ISBN 9781846771446 and ISBN 1846771447.