Going to the Wars Classics "Palmer was fourteen years old

"Palmer was fourteen years old in September 1958 when he made the unlikely journey alone by train to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

” —Jonathan F

”—Kenneth A

The sketches of comrades-in-arms in peace and war are well drawn

“The hurricane descended and swept our world away

Going to the Wars Classics "Palmer was fourteen years old215 page paperback 5. 5" x 8. 5" ISBN 9781589881310 Publication Date: 1 15 2019 My brother officers. Are they human? Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty three year old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of modern art and literature, who has, almost on a whim, joined a part time cavalry regiment of the British Army in 1937. At the outbreak of World War II two years later, Verney arrives in the Middle East and there learns, almost