Single-Handed: Letters from the Front - Couverture rigide

'I had never seen a man in my charge hit before and it made me wild. I then returned to see what I could do for him, but I could see at a glance that he was beyond all human aid his brains were in his hat, the bullet had gone through his head and there he lay, poor fellow, just sobbing his life away. Some of the others suggested bringing him in, but I wouldn t have him disturbed, and I lay under a waterproof sheet with him while he died. He never spoke, he was unconscious from the moment he was hit.' Throughout his military training and his service overseas, Kenneth Dalgliesh diligently wrote letters to his parents, and it is these, along with a large collection of Kenneth's detailed illustrations and sketches, that inform this remarkable book, detailing WWI, the loss of his arm (hence the title, Single-Handed), and his subsequent meeting with his wife-to-be in Cairo.

Colonel Michael Hickey was educated at Magdalen College School Oxford and Sandhurst. He first saw action in Korea, then as a light aircraft pilot in Malaya, where he was awarded the Perak Distinguished Conduct Medal. He is the author of several books on military history including Out of the Sky, The Unforgettable Army: Slim and the 14th Army in Burma, Gallipoli and The Korean War 1950-53 - The West Confronts Communism, and was awarded the Westminster Medal of the Royal United Services Institute in 2000. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for First World War Studies at the University of Birmingham and now lives in the Berkshire countryside.