SALE ON NOW! PROMOTIONS
Huntly Strathearn Gordon was born in Perthshire in 1898. Educated at Clifton College, he joined the army in 1916. After the war he studied medicine before going to China with Shell Oil. Returning in 1926, he joined London Transport, spending much of his spare time surveying archaeological sites with Sir Mortimer Wheeler. During the Blitz, he initiated food trains for the thousands sheltering in the Underground, and was awarded an MBE. Huntly Gordon died in 1982. Born in 1956, David Gordon is Huntly Gordon's youngest son. Educated at Sherborne and Sandhurst, he has been a soldier, parliamentary researcher and county councillor. A lifelong campaigner on environmental issues, his passions also include vintage vehicles and old houses. He lives in Somerset.
One of the best First World War memoirs I've read - honest, intelligent and vivid, as fresh as if written yesterday. -- Brigadier Allan Mallinson The Times I loved The Unreturning Army, and thought it one of the best half-dozen memoirs that I read. Your father writes beautfiully, had an interesting war, and emerges as a man who did his bit without being overwhelmed by the horror or elated by the dark beauty of violence. It would be good to see the book back in print again. -- RICHARD HOLMES, author of Redcoat, Tommy etc. I have never read anything that gives such a vivid description of the hell of Passchendaele - nor of the spirit that enabled our troops to survive it. -- Professor Sir Michael Howard A haunting account of the loss of a generation, and the way that the gigantic conflict obliterated the dead and, when the guns fell silent, still managed to destroy any survivors. Good Book Guide, Jan 2014
