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Title: |
Riding Into War |
| Sub-title: |
The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919 |
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| By (author): |
James Robert Johnston |
| ISBN10-13: |
0864924127 : 9780864924124 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
196x139x8mm |
| Pages: |
112 |
| Weight: |
.159 Kg. |
| Published: |
Goose Lane Editions - October 2004 |
| List Price: |
11.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
History : History of other lands : 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 : Warfare & defence : Canada |
| "I believe my saddle horse knew more than I did . . . He took care of me." The popular image of the Great War is of the trenches, but Jimmie Johnston experienced the triumph of Vimy and the hell of Passchendaele from a saddle. A horse driver in the transport section of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps, he hauled machine guns and ammunition to the front lines through shellfire, darkness, driving rain, and suffocating mud. |
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