The Man Nobody Knew
Holworthy Hall
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 25, 2018)
Excerpt from The Man Nobody KnewN the beginning of things, he was merely a number; but even that was creditable, because his number was low enough to signify that he had responded pretty promptly to the rallying call. After that, and with the cataclysmic suddenness which marked all changes of military status on the Western front, he became, one frosty morning, a Case, and got himself roughly classi fied (and tenderly handled) as a Stretcher Case, a Grand Blessé, and, in consequence, a proper temporary inmate of a field hospital on the Belgian plains.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.