The Great Push: An Episode of the Great War by Patrick MacGill (24 December 1899 - 23 November 1963). Written on the battlefield and first published in 1916, poet and author MacGill's memoir covers his experience during the Battle of Loos (1915) as a member of the London Irish Rifles. MacGill eloquently--and poignantly--captures the humor, pathos, fear and character of his fellow soldiers as they endure the horrors of war.

New Foreword and additional content by Alan McCright, Ed.

From Patrick MacGill's "The Great Push: An Episode of the Great War:"
"The orchestra of war swelled in an incessant fanfare of dizzy harmony. Floating, stuttering, whistling, screaming and thundering the clamorous voices belched into a rich gamut of passion which shook the grey heavens. The sharp, zigzagging sounds of high velocity shells cut through the pandemonium like forked lightning, and far away, as it seemed, sounding like a distant breakwater the big missiles from caterpillar howitzers lumbered through the higher deeps of the sky. The brazen lips of death cajoled, threatened, whispered, whistled, laughed and sung: here were the sinister and sullen voices of destruction, the sublime and stupendous paean of power intermixed in sonorous clamour and magnificent vibration."

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• Publication Date: October 18, 2010
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Print Length: 288 Pages
• File Size: 514 KB