Peter Jacobs

For King and Country at Loos

The Tale of 2/LT Charlie Hodgins in World War I. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 224 Seiten
ISBN 1784389528
EAN 9781784389529
Veröffentlicht 30. Oktober 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Pen & Sword Books
28,00 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

'Deeply regret to inform you that 2/Lt C F B Hodgins 2/Wiltshire Regt is reported killed Sept 25/26. Lord Kitchener desires to express his sympathy. Secretary War Office.' - Telegram from the War Office dated 29 September 1915 This is the true and previously untold story of one man's war on the Western Front during the First World War.

Portrait

Peter Jacobs served nearly 37 years in the RAF (1977-2013) as an air defence navigator, initially on the F4 Phantom and later on the Tornado F3\. He has written twenty books including Daring Raids of World War Two: Heroic Land, Sea and Air Attacks (2015); Bomber Command: Airfields of Lincolnshire (2016) and The RAF in 100 Objects (2017).