Thunder in the skies

What was it like to be a field gunner in the Great War? Find out by reading this book which takes the reader through enlistment in late 1914, training camp, to the Somme, Passchendaele, the Hundred Days Offensive, and home again. Posted just behind the front lines, field gunners spent grueling months supporting the infantry in the trenches. A wrenching, insightful account of a tight-knit band of soldiers swept up in some of the most important battles of the war that shaped the twentieth century.