GALLIPOLI TO THE SOMME Recollections of the New Zealand Infantryman

Alexander Aitken was an ordinary soldier with an extraordinary mind. The student who enlisted in 1915 was a mathematical genius who could multiply nine-digit numbers in his head. He took a violin with him to Gallipoli (where field telephone wire substituted for an E-string) and practiced Bach on the...

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Main Author: Aitken, Alexander (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Oxford University Press 1964
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