The First Hundred Thousand: Being The Unofficial Chronicle Of A Unit Of "K (1)" (1915) By Ian Hay
 
The reader is hereby cautioned against regarding this narrative as an official history of the Great War. The following pages are merely a record of some of the personal adventures of a typical regiment of Kitchener's Army. The chapters were written from day to day, and published from month to month
 
Written while in training and in the trenches, this is a first-hand account of how a group of raw, inept recruits were turned into a fighting force of a hundred thousand men, and the triumphs and tragedies they endured.
 
A realistic view of the life of a highland regiment following Kitchener's massive recruiting campaign during the First World War. The characters are life-like and the incidents utterly believable.The formation of the regiment as a band of "not quite sure why we're here or what we're doing" amateur soldiers and the training that follows their various paths to gaining battle skills is told in amusing but graphic way and gives an insight in what was involved in making the regiment into a fighting unit which is eventually sent out to France.
 
Hard Cover
342 Pages 
In Fair Condition