Project Gutenberg 2005-06-16 Public domain in the USA. 169 MacGill, Patrick 1889 1963 The Amateur Army Reading ease score: 77.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto), Suzanne Lybarger, William Flis, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Amateur Army" by Patrick MacGill is a memoir written in the early 20th century. The book chronicles the experiences of MacGill as a soldier in World War I, particularly focusing on the journey from a civilian to a soldier in “Kitchener's Army.” It highlights the camaraderie, the challenges, and the humorous anecdotes that arise from military life, providing insight into the nature of war and the various personalities encountered along the way. At the start of the memoir, MacGill reflects upon his unexpected enlistment into the army, driven by a mixture of curiosity, social obligation, and the spirit of the times. He recounts the early days of training, the awkwardness of being billeted with civilian families, and the complacency of the British public facing the war. The opening portions vividly depict the humorous yet poignant interactions between soldiers and civilians, the challenges of adjusting to military discipline, and the daily routines of a recruit, setting the tone for a narrative rich with both levity and the subtle undercurrents of the realities of war. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Great Britain. Army -- Military life World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, English D501 Text World War I Browsing: History - General Browsing: History - Warfare 162205 160710 2024-10-07T08:39:44.505115 2023-09-07T09:36:59.627163 text/html text/html 159317 2020-12-11T06:11:21 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 171962 2020-12-11T06:11:21 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 252740 2024-10-07T08:39:50.313068 application/epub+zip 251527 2024-10-07T08:39:46.496090 application/epub+zip 131860 2024-10-07T08:39:45.258117 application/epub+zip 389830 2024-10-07T08:39:53.295065 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 371010 2024-10-07T08:39:49.478076 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 224604 2022-09-08T01:13:26.652998 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 140943 140743 2024-10-07T08:39:43.785113 2023-09-07T09:36:59.238129 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 140807 2020-12-11T06:11:21 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 56100 2020-12-11T06:11:21 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 140802 2020-12-11T06:11:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 56081 2020-12-11T06:11:21 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21657 2024-10-07T08:39:53.431046 application/rdf+xml 13639 2024-10-07T08:39:45.796099 image/jpeg 3676 2024-10-07T08:39:45.526083 image/jpeg 235301 2024-10-07T08:39:44.524109 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia