Books with author Bernard Adnet

As it was with so many young men, for Bernard Adams in 1914 it was like he was going off on some great adventure.Nothing could have prepared him for the reality he ended up facing.Placing his focus on the day to day existence of the soldiers in the trenches, Adams presents a grim picture of mud-coated billets, relentless artillery barrages, working parties, training and the art of military sniping.Just as it would have been for the soldiers’ lives, Adams heightens his work with an emotive account of his first night patrol, the detonation of mines, battlefield duels and being wounded whilst out wiring in No Man’s Land.Understated and striving for truth over melodrama, Nothing of Importance is the original memoir of the First World War — the only record published while the conflict was still being fought — and the definitive account of trench warfare.Bernard Adams (1890-1917) was a British Army officer, joining 1 Royal Welsh Fusiliers as a Lieutenant in November 1914. He was the first of a triumvirate of authors who, for a time, served simultaneously in the same battalion: the second was Siegfried Sassoon, the third Robert Graves. Written whilst convalescing in 1916, he did not live to see it published.

Hadn't the African American Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger; The world would have remained black and white, and when we were trying today to teach our children to reject racism and respect for others regardless of gender, color, race and religion, we might have wanted to teach them how to persecute others, or to cope with their persecution!But today’s world is a colorful world, in which civilized societies impose as much human equality as possible on humanitarian grounds, a world that must reject racism in order to ensure its continuity and preserve the gains of civilization, a world that must view racism as one of the greatest threats that may lead to a dark phase of wars and disasters Social.How do children learn racism? How can they be protected from racism by its two sides, "being persecuted or persecuting others" ?, What are the mechanisms that make children deal with the different in a correct way? And why shouldn't children learn racism?

Bernard Adams was nearly twenty-four when war broke out. A Classical scholar of St John’s College, Cambridge, he had set his mind missionary work in India but he joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers (RWF) as a lieutenant in November 1914 and went to France, to the 1st Battalion, in October 1915 when his story begins. Soon after joining he was given command of a company, a position which he retained until he was wounded in June 1916 when he went home. He came back to France to his battalion at the end of January 1917, and a month later, on 26th February, he was wounded while leading his men in an attack on Puisieux and died the next day in a field hospital. He is buried in Couin New British Cemetery. 'This is another exceptionally well written and interesting memoir by a man who was held in high regard by his fellow officers and his men. 1st RWF (22nd Brigade, 7th Division) had just come from the Loos battlefield when Adams joined and his first experiences of trench warfare were in the Cuinchy - Givenchy sector, that dismal part of the front astride the La Bassee Canal. Here they sat till the last week in November in an everlasting alternation between the trenches and our billets behind....After two months out resting and training the battalion went back into the line in the Bois Francais trenches just below Fricourt and it was still there in June when Adams was wounded. The strength of these reminiscences is the wonderfully detailed picture of trench life in all its aspects - working parties, billets, the art of sniping - enlivened by the account of a duel between two exponents, night patrols, detonation of a mine and being hit while out wiring. There is a very good trench map of the Bois Francais position from which I was able to transfer details onto the Blue Series 1:25,000 map (2408 Est. Bray-sur-Somme) and explore that part of the line which the author has so well described. '