The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Biography and Autobiography The War Poets
RCC7179
Before Action: William Noel Hodgson and the 9th Devons. A Story of the Great War
ISBN
9781783463756
Purchase Price
£19.99 (new)
Date Purchased
February 25, 2015
Publisher
Pen & Sword Military (2015, Barnsley, South Yorks)
Notes
Hodgson was one of the great war poets but his memory has faded, as contrasted with the likes of Sassoon and Owen. Nevertheless, at one time his poetry was considered their equal. This book is about his life, most of it about the period of the war he spent with the regiment, and in that respect the book is as much a regimental history as a biography, indeed, it is more or less written as such. But the 9th Devons survived The Somme, Hodgson did not, so this book is catalogued in Biographies.
9781783463756
Purchase Price
£19.99 (new)
Date Purchased
February 25, 2015
Publisher
Pen & Sword Military (2015, Barnsley, South Yorks)
Notes
Hodgson was one of the great war poets but his memory has faded, as contrasted with the likes of Sassoon and Owen. Nevertheless, at one time his poetry was considered their equal. This book is about his life, most of it about the period of the war he spent with the regiment, and in that respect the book is as much a regimental history as a biography, indeed, it is more or less written as such. But the 9th Devons survived The Somme, Hodgson did not, so this book is catalogued in Biographies.