Tucker, W. A., — THE LOUSIER WAR.

New English Library, London, 1975, new edn., paperback original, 125pp, [ii] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, the experiences of a British solder who, after two previous attempts , managed to join the 15th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, swearing to be 19 when actually 17 years old. Undergoing training at Llandudno and waiting for recruiting numbers to build he volunteered for the 38th (Welsh) Divisional Cycling Company and was accepted. After further training at Winchester they arrived in France only to find they had been separated from their bicycles. Once reunited their duties appear to have been surveying the routes from the points of disembarkation to the front and then escorting new drafts of troops, he also relates the privations caused by rats, lice and scabies. Taken prisoner he and his comrades suffered near starvation but also gained an insight into his captors as well as the women of occupied France, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,