The Great Survivor
Roberts, edited by Hugh Malcolm
The World War I Diary ofPrivate W J G Roberts. The First World War offers many tales of survival against the odds, but few can have been so meticulously documented as this. Wounded at Passchendaele in October 1917, then sent to a supposedly quiet area near the Aisne just before the Germans Spring Offensive intensified, Private William Roberts was both desperately unlucky and extremely fortunate. His wartime diary provides not only a compelling...
