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Thunder in the Skies: A Canadian Gunner in the Great War

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An strange, newly came upon account from an abnormal Canadian at the ground in the an important battles of the First World War.

What was once it like to be a field gunner in the Great War?

Drawing at the unpublished letters and diary of field gunner Lt. Bert Sargent and his fellow soldiers, Thunder in the Skies takes the reader from enlistment in late 1914, through training camp, to the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, the Hundred Days Offensive, and home again with peace.

Posted just at the back of the front lines, Sargent and field gunners like him spent gruelling months supporting the infantry in the trenches. Theirs was once a very different war, as dangerous or more every now and then as the one at the front lines. As an abnormal Canadian writing letters home to abnormal people, Sargent gives a wrenching, insightful account of a tight-knit band of soldiers swept up in one of the crucial most important battles of the war that shaped the twentieth century.

Thunder in the Skies details the day-to-day life of artillerymen fighting in the First World War in a way no other book has before.

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