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At War With the 16th Irish Division 1914-1918: The Letters of J H M Staniforth Hardcover – Feb. 1 2019

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The letters of John 'Max' Staniforth are among the most perceptive, graphic and evocative personal records of a soldier's life to have come down to us from the Great War. They cover his entire wartime career with the 16th (Irish) Division, from his enlistment in 1914 till the armistice, and they have never been published before. From his first days in the army, Staniforth wrote fluent, descriptive weekly letters to his parents and, in doing so, he created a fascinating record of his experiences and those of the men around him. When the division arrived on the Western Front in 1915, he related his impressions in detail, and went on to give an unflinching account of the drama and the cruelty - and the grueling routine - of trench warfare. After he was gassed in 1918, he wrote about his feelings and the treatment he received just as thoroughly as he did about every other aspect of the conflict. A striking aspect of the letters is that Staniforth enlisted as a private soldier and went through the training of the ordinary recruit before rising through the ranks. The letters also show how the Irish division was influenced by the turmoil of contemporary politics in Ireland.

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Pen and Sword
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Feb. 1 2019
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16.51 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm
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1848846347
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J H M Staniforth fought throughout the Great War from 1914-1918, surviving the many horrors that took his friends.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen and Sword
Publication date ‏ : ‎ Feb. 1 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1848846347
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1848846340
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm
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Ray Chandler
Simply brilliant
Reviewed in Canada on June 21, 2021
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Wonderful writing, acutely observed and richly informative about all sorts of things usually passed over in silence in WW1 memoirs. Highly recommended.

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Eddie Fitzroy
excellent books
Reviewed in Canada on May 19, 2013
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Attack State Red is a firm favourite an account by soldiers for soldiers worth a read ,At War is a brilliant book written in the language of the day ,highly reccomended

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Dev Stormes
Personal WWI history
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2021
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I was enthralled through the majority of the book. The letters were so personal, and descriptive that I almost could feel whay he felt and picture what was happening. The only problem was that the footnotes were off for the 3rd to last chapter. I'm so glad that I noticed that the Kindle version was on sale.

This should be required reading for any history student.

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David Roulston
Excellent collection of letters
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 14, 2015
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This is an excellent collection of letters which provide a first hand account of John 'Max' Staniforth's experience of serving in the 16th (Irish) Division from first enlisting to the army through to the armistice. Mr Staniforth's letters were written to his parents and provide a varied description of the experience of serving during the first world war. The letters are surprisingly detailed and provide an excellent contemporary account of this period in history.

Richard Grayson has done an excellent job of both editing and annotating the letters so that remarks and observations can be put in context.

If you have an interest in world war one and, in particular, the 16th division I would heartily recommend this book to you.

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Sinead
Invaluable Piece of History
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2021
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I bought this book as I have recently been doing my family history and wanted to track my great granduncle. His battalion were transferred to the 16th Division a few months before the battle in which he died, and while I knew that his battalion was not the same as Staniforth's, I thought that his letters would give some insight into what things would have been like for my uncle anyway. The insight into the experience of the Irish soldiers fighting in the British Army was so fascinating too. Staniforth's recollections have really made my ancestor much more real to me. Even if you don't know of any ancestral link to WWI, this really is a very thought provoking read, it's so easy to remove ourselves from these soldiers' sacrifices, but they absolutely should be kept alive for future generations through texts such as this.

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Black Sheep
A brilliant book .
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2019
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John 'Max' Staniforth was born in 1893 in Yorkshire and educated at Chaterhouse and Christ church
Oxford . When war broke out he had a temporary holiday job as a tutor so could not join up until
October 1914 , his mother was Irish and so he decided to join the Connaught Rangers . Unusually
he preferred to joined as a private soldier rather than take a commission and travelled to Ireland to
join the 6th Connaught Rangers .

He found his fellow recruits to be a tough crowd but more than held his own and soon gained promotion.
In November he got his commission and joined the 7th Leinsters ( same Brigade ) , he trained as a signaller
and became battalion signals officer . In May 1915 he was promoted Lieutenant and his battalion went to
England in September for further training . December saw him in the trenches at Loos and in June of the
following year he took part in a trench raid.

He was hospitalised with Scabies but returned to take part in the battles of Guillemont and Ginchy , where
he was slightly wounded . None of his letters home survive from August 1916 until March 1917 but he was
made Captain in September 1916 , probably as a result of the high amount of casualties his battalion
suffered at the Somme. He returned home on leave in March and needed extensive dental work which resulted
in him being kept at home in Ireland until June when he returned to France.

He took part in the Third battle of Ypres in August and later that month was sent to the coast to take charge
of his division's depot brigade ( a training brigade ) . He returned to his battalion a short time later and was
acting adjutant and later acting Quatermaster for a short time. In February 1918 his battalion was disbanded
and he joined 2nd Leinsters but was kept doing Admin work at base and taking drafts up the line . In May he
was at the front but was badly gassed shortly after and returned to England where he was later put in charge
of a fort at Portsmouth and witnessed the Armistice in November.

I really enjoyed reading this book , the letters are mostly long and very detailed , containing a wealth of
information about such things as the Irish situation , duties of a signals officer , Quatermaster , and taking
reinforcements up to the front . Although his description of the Somme battles is brief his letters about
Passchendaele reflect the horrors of that bloody battle. He saw a badly wounded officer blow his brains
out whilst waiting in agony for treatment and was splattered with his sergeant's brains whilst entering a
pill box in which he endured 48 hours of continual bombardment . There was also the occasion at Loos
where the Germans propped up a body of a dead highlander with his kilt pulled up and his backside exposed
opposite the British trenches but kept a guard nearby so the body could not be recovered .

'Max' went on to marry and live a long life , he became a Church of England priest and died on Boxing day
1985 . His original letters are held by the Imperial War Museum , this book is a fine tribute to him and I
thoroughly recommend it.

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Jean
Wonderful Book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 16, 2020
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I bought this book to try to understand what my Grandfather went through at The Somme. It is everything I hoped for and written in a way that is easy to follow and get into, like a work of Fiction. Unfortunately this wasn't Fiction.

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