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WW1 Podcast with Paul Reed
Forgotten Memoirs of the Great War Part 1
In this episode we start a look at some of the Forgotten Memoirs of the First World War, starting with Percy Croney’s ‘Soldiers Luck’ published in the mid-1960s. Croney was a 1914 volunteer who served with the Essex Regiment and Scottish Rifles at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, being wounded several times and taken prisoner in March 1918. We ask what the value of memoirs like this are to our understanding of the Great War.
Percy Croney – Soldier’s Luck on Open Library
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Loved the extracts read from that book Paul, writing the way he did Percy obviously had either a high standard of education or just a natural talent, if ever a book calls out for a reprint this must be it!
Once again congratulation in taking the podcast in yet another new direction, I’m already looking forward to the next episode in this series.
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Thanks, Iain! Yes I agree, he was a good writer.
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Really enjoyed listening to the extracts from his book and I agree with the previous comment about him being an educated man. Pity that the book is no longer widely available.
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