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By Christmas 1914, the crazy wave of excitement that had delivered guys scrambling to become listed on up a couple of months earlier started initially to trail off, and although the original British Expeditionary Force had endured 90-percent deaths, many people, specially the troops themselves, nevertheless thought that 1915 might begin to see the breaking of the deadlock. But their expectations were broken on the bloody battlefields of Neuve Chapelle, Ypres, Loos, and a long way away on the shores of Gallipoli.Lyn Macdonaldis tale of 1915 is marked, raw, frank, often painfully hilarious, usually individual. Nothing you've seen prior has any author gathered a lot of first-hand accounts of the experiences of common soldiers, through journals, interviews, and letters with survivors—and it's the sardonic laughter and heroism of the soldiers that sparkle through the pages of the legendary story. 1915 is just a distinctly powerful mixture of touching recollections and military background of the practitioners who survived the experience.