How Long to Read The Big Fight (Gallipoli To The Somme) [Illustrated Edition]

How Long Does it Take to Read The Big Fight (Gallipoli To The Somme) [Illustrated Edition]?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 20 minutes to read The Big Fight (Gallipoli To The Somme) [Illustrated Edition] by Captain David Fallon M.C.

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos “Gallipoli and the Western Front to the end of 1916, as experienced by the author who served with the Australians and 1/Buckingham Bn of the O&B LI This book is an account of the author’s battlefield experiences at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Fallon was a pre-war regular (Northumberland Fusiliers) who, when war broke out, was a staff sergeant instructor at the Australian Royal Military College in Duntroon. Transferred in some unexplained fashion to the Australian army he took part in the Gallipoli landings on 25 April 1915, which he describes in gory detail, as he does the rest of the fighting till he was evacuated in December. Back in the British army he was commisioned into the Buckingham Battalion (TF) of the O & B LI (145th Bde/48th Division) with which he fought on the Western Front till badly wounded at the end of 1916. He seems to go out of his way to make his descriptions of the fighting as bloody as possible, and as for the Germans, he has a chapter entitled “Hun Beastliness” in which he makes unbelievable statements such as the two examples which follow: It was the nude body of the Mother Superior. She had been nailed to the door. She had been crucified. In the ruins we brought out the bodies of four nuns, unspeakably mutilated. Their bodies had been stabbed and slashed each more than a hundred times. They had gone to martyrdom resisting incredible brutes. They had fought hard, the blond hair of their assassins clutched in their dead hands. And again, at Wytschaete: Above the wreck of the skyline trench bayonets stuck up, and on them were the severed heads, with horrible smiles under their English caps, of twenty of my men. Referring to German soldiers he writes: They hate the bayonet. The cold steel is not for Hans. Shades of Dad’s Army, Lcpl Jones and “They don’t like it up ‘em”.”-Print ed.

How long is The Big Fight (Gallipoli To The Somme) [Illustrated Edition]?

The Big Fight (Gallipoli To The Somme) [Illustrated Edition] by Captain David Fallon M.C. is 434 pages long, and a total of 110,236 words.

This makes it 146% the length of the average book. It also has 135% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Big Fight (Gallipoli To The Somme) [Illustrated Edition] Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 2 minutes to read The Big Fight (Gallipoli To The Somme) [Illustrated Edition] aloud.

What Reading Level is The Big Fight (Gallipoli To The Somme) [Illustrated Edition]?

The Big Fight (Gallipoli To The Somme) [Illustrated Edition] is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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