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A Soldier's Sketchbook: The Illustrated First World War Diary of R. H. Rabjohn

John Wilson, BSc 1974

A unique First World War diary, illustrated with more than a hundred stunning pencil sketches. In 1916, Russell Rabjohn was just eighteen years old when he joined up to fight in the First World War. 

Like many soldiers he defied army regulations and kept a small pocket diary, but Rabjohn was different, he was a trained artist. As such he was assigned to draw dugouts, map newly captured trenches, and sketch the graves of his fallen comrades. This gave him the freedom to carry an artist's sketchbook on the battlefield. 
 
For over three years, he sketched everything he saw and in the process created an unmatched visual record of a lost time—a wonderfully detailed and dramatic account of the war as seen through an artist's eyes. 
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ISBN: 978-1-77049-854-9

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