It takes the average reader 5 hours to read A Very Unimportant Officer by Captain Alexander Stewart
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Rediscovered after 80 years gathering dust on a family bookshelf and first brought to public attention on BBC Radio 4?s Today Programme, A VERY UNIMPORTANT OFFICER is a detailed and intimate account of the experience of Captain Stewart, an ordinary officer in the front line in France and Flanders throughout 1916 and 1917. Recruited to The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1915 at the age of 33, Captain Stewart went 'over the top' many times, outliving 'so many better men', as he says with typical humility. Through his vivid testimony we learn of the mud ('more like thick slime'), the flies and...
A Very Unimportant Officer by Captain Alexander Stewart is 300 pages long, and a total of 75,000 words.
This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 92% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read A Very Unimportant Officer aloud.
A Very Unimportant Officer is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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