Some Desperate Glory
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Some Desperate Glory is the diary of a British officer (Edwin Campion Vaughan), written during the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, was published post-humously in 1981 by Henry Holt and Company. Writing in the Wall Street Journal in 2006, James J. Cramer cites "Some Desperate Glory" as one of the five best books on war: “Vaughan describes the screams of the wounded who had sought refuge in the freshly gouged holes only to find themselves slowly drowning as rain fell and the water level rose. A relentlessly stark account of the war's bloodiest, most futile battle.”
