Nothing of Importance


Leído por Lee Smalley

(4.7 stars; 11 reviews)

Fighting in France during the Great War, Bernard Adams, an officer with a Welsh battalion, was moved to chronicle what he saw and experienced: the living conditions and duties of officers and “Tommies” (enlisted men) in their dank, rat-infested trenches and behind the lines; the maiming and deaths; and the quiet periods described in official reports as “nothing of importance”. Adams relates his wounding in June, 1916 and its aftermath. The concluding chapter, which he wrote during his convalescence in “Blighty” (soldiers’ slang for England), is an impassioned reflection on war. Following several months of recuperation Adams returned to the front where, on February 26, 1917 he was wounded again. The following day he died. (Lee Smalley) (7 hr 58 min)

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In Memoriam and Preface 12:56 Leído por Lee Smalley
First Impressions 28:32 Leído por Lee Smalley
Cuinchy and Givenchy 35:38 Leído por Lee Smalley
Working-Parties 34:53 Leído por Lee Smalley
Rest 37:13 Leído por Lee Smalley
On the March 14:12 Leído por Lee Smalley
The Bois Français Trenches 26:08 Leído por Lee Smalley
More First Impressions 24:51 Leído por Lee Smalley
Sniping 31:19 Leído por Lee Smalley
On Patrol 13:19 Leído por Lee Smalley
'Whom the Gods Love' 24:30 Leído por Lee Smalley
'Whom the Gods Love'—(continued). 20:33 Leído por Lee Smalley
Officers’ Servants 25:51 Leído por Lee Smalley
Mines 24:11 Leído por Lee Smalley
Billets 43:13 Leído por Lee Smalley
'A certain Man Drew a Bow at a Venture' 18:33 Leído por Lee Smalley
Wounded 38:45 Leído por Lee Smalley
Conclusion 24:14 Leído por Lee Smalley

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"Nothing of Importance" - a World War I memoir


(5 stars)

I have finished listening to Lee Smalley's Librivox recording of John Bernard Pye Adams' memoir "Nothing of Importance". The reading is excellent and the book is fascinating. It is the memoir of a an introspective English officer serving the Flanders trenches in a Welsh battalion in WWI. In the preface we learn that the officer was killed in action shortly after the diary ends (in mid-1916). The book offers insights into all facets of the war, including the joys, the horrors and the boredom. The book deserves to be much more well known. Hopefully, this recording will contribute to that.