Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front by E. W. Hornung

Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front by E. W. Hornung – Audiobook

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In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was only 20. Two years later E W Hornung volunteered to help run one of the YMCA canteens close behind the front line.

This book is Hornung’s own account of the time he spent in Northern France: first helping in a canteen, then running a library for the enlisted men. He wanted to be near the place where his son died, to meet the young soldiers who were fighting the war, and to make their lives a little better. More than anything, Hornung wanted to believe there was a greater purpose to he war: in his descriptions soldiers are always heroes, the struggles just, and leaders wise and kind.

But whatever his motivations and blind-spots, Hornung brought all his skills as a highly experienced novelist to the task of telling his story. We feel we are there with him while he talks to the soldiers, travels to the front line to serve cocoa and biscuits under fire, and finally sets up a lending library only a couple of miles from No Man’s Land. Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (a former friend who reported Hornung to the authorities for promoting pacifism) grudgingly admitted that this book contains some of the best descriptions of life on the Western Front.

(The cover shows the western front as it passed trough the town of Arras in 1918 at the time the author would have known it)

(Summary by Clive Catterall)

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Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front by E. W. Hornung – Audiobook

Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front by E. W. Hornung – Audiobook

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