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A Rifleman Went To War (LARGE PRINT EDITION)

Biographies & Memoirs

McBride, Herbert W.

Leaders & Notable People

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

‘A Rifleman Went To War’ was written by Captain Herbert W. McBride – intended as a narrative of the author’s experiences and observations wile with the Canadian Corps in France and Belgium between 1915-1917. The text places particular emphasis upon the use of the military rifle in sniping, its place in modern armament, and the work of the individual soldier. McBride (1873- 1933) is best known for this first-person account of the fighting in World War One, it is a work which took him almost his entire adult life to write. It contains chapters on Canada, England and Flanders respectively, as well as more specific military subjects of ‘trenches’, ‘scouting and patrolling’, ‘duds, misfires and stuck bolts’, ‘trench raiding’, ‘the pistol in war’ and ‘the Somme.’ This book contains an author biography, briefly outlining McBride’s life, as well as a black and white portrait of the author. It makes essential reading for anyone interested in military tactics and history, as well as engaging accounts of battle.

A Rifleman Went to War

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Morrison Press

The Emma Gees

History

Military

Goldberg Press

A Rifleman Went To War

From childhood Herbert W. McBride was familiar with rifles, at first watching his father prepare for the hunt, later learning the game himself: he was destined to become a Rifleman. 
Growing up in Indiana, surrounded by veterans of the Civil War, he followed his father and his father before him into a military life, rising in time to become a Captain. 
“Missing” two conflicts, when war was declared in 1914 a burning curiosity to find out what a “real war” was like led McBride to resign his commission and head to Canadian forces. 
Assigned to the 38th Battalion, upon finding out it was slated for garrison duties he transferred to the 21st Battalion, fearing war’s end before he could taste the fire of battle. 
As a Private in the Machine Gun Section, a rifle always on his shoulder, McBride served in France and Belgium from September 1915 to April 1917. 
Weaving his experiences and observations into a gripping narrative, his account of his time in the Canadian Corps offers fascinating insight into the role of a Rifleman in WWI. 
McBride’s emphasis on the use of the military rifle in sniping, its place in modern armament, and the work of the individual soldier is as valuable as the insight given into soldiers’ minds. 
‘A Rifleman Went to War’ not only offers a unique insight into the Canadian Corps, and in turn, the British Army of WWI, but also into military science. 
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From childhood Herbert W. McBride was familiar with rifles, at first watching his father prepare for the hunt, later learning the game himself: he was destined to become a Rifleman.  Growing up in Indiana, surrounded by veterans of the Civil War, he followed his father and his father before him into a military life, rising in time to become a Captain.  “Missing” two conflicts, when war was declared in 1914 a burning curiosity to find out what a “real war” was like led McBride to resign his commission and head to Canadian forces.  Assigned to the 38th Battalion, upon finding out it was slated for garrison duties he transferred to the 21st Battalion, fearing war’s end before he could taste the fire of battle.  As a Private in the Machine Gun Section, a rifle always on his shoulder, McBride served in France and Belgium from September 1915 to April 1917.  Weaving his experiences and observations into a gripping narrative, his account of his time in the Canadian Corps offers fascinating insight into the role of a Rifleman in WWI.  McBride’s emphasis on the use of the military rifle in sniping, its place in modern armament, and the work of the individual soldier is as valuable as the insight given into soldiers’ minds.  ‘A Rifleman Went to War’ not only offers a unique insight into the Canadian Corps, and in turn, the British Army of WWI, but also into military science.

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