1914 First Blood - A Tommy Gunn Adventure

Meet T.O.M. Gunn, a young infantry lieutenant in the Sherwood Foresters, just back on leave from India as Europe catches ablaze in the chaotic summer of 1914. The British Expeditionary Force is off to France and Gunn is determined to join the war before it’s over. He joins a hastily formed mixed battalion of reservists, regular and territorial soldiers to find themselves pitchforked into the mayhem of the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne and then the drawn out agony of Ypres as the high hopes of summer sink into the frozen trenches of the winter of 1914. But by the time of the Christmas Truce with the Germans, Thaddeus Gunn and his men begin to realise that this is going to be a long war – and they will be lucky to survive. Reviews “Fantastic detail. He really captures the mood both on the home front and as the troops go into battle. A really authentic piece of work.” Nick Gordon, Award winning journalist and ex-deputy editor of the Daily Mail “If Hughes-Wilson finishes this sequence of novels it will be an unique achievement” Rick Gekoski. Chair of The Booker Prize, author and rare book dealer. “If you enjoyed Flashman and Sharpe, you will love Tommy Gunn.” International Guild of Battlefield Guides. “These gripping novels have the triple advantage of being superbly written, true to life down to the last military detail, and very exciting.” Prof Andrew Roberts, FR Hist S John, I am not clever enough to write fiction, so I take my hat off to you. You can say 'From the moment in this remarkable series of novels that we meet young infantry officer Thaddeus Gunn fighting in the heat and dust of the North-West Frontier in 1913, his tale fairly rattles along, like a well-oiled Vickers machine-gun. It sweeps us out on a rip-roaring tide to Ypres, the shores of Gallipoli then back into the charnel houses of the Somme and Passchendaele, before pitching us alongside him to fight the final hectic battles of 1918. This is a unique story about a very human and sympathetic character, worthy of being described as ‘the Sharpe of the Great War.’ The volumes and extracts I have read I found hugely enjoyable; page turners to be sure, with a real whiff of cordite.” Jon Cooksey, WW1 Historian, TV presenter, military historian and author of ‘The Barnsley Pals’, ‘Harry’s War’, ‘The Western Front - Blood and Iron,’ Battlefields Review