Walking the Somme: A Walker's Guide to the 1916 Somme Battlefields (Battleground Europe Series) By Paul Reed
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This new edition of Paul Reed s classic book Walking the Somme is an essential traveling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916 His book first published over ten years ago is the result of a lifetime s research into the battle and the landscape over which it was fought From Gommecourt Serre Beaumont Hamel and Thiepval to Montauban High Wood Delville Wood and Flers he guides the walker across the major sites associated with the fighting These are now features of the peaceful Somme countryside In total there are 16 walks including a new one tracing the operations around Mametz Wood and all the original walks have been fully revised and brought up to date Walking the Somme brings the visitor not only to the places where the armies clashed but to the landscape of monuments cemeteries and villages that make the Somme battlefield so moving to explore Walking the Somme A Walker s Guide to the 1916 Somme Battlefields Battleground Europe Series He was born Paul Hustoft to Sigurd William and Melva Hustoft in San Diego California on May 28 1956 Reed whose biological father died when he was five months old also had a sister Karen Hustoft and a stepfather who was a Baptist preacher Reed legally changed his last name in 1969. Book Walking the sommerset As a child and adolescent Reed studied the organ and harpsichord and as an adult he obtained a B A in Sociology from California State University Chico in 1978 and an M A in Social Anthropology from the University of California at Davis in 1981. Book Walking the sommelier Reeds move to San Francisco occurred one month He was born Paul Hustoft to Sigurd William and Melva Hustoft in San Diego California on May 28 1956 Reed whose biological father died when he was five months old also had a sister Karen Hustoft and a stepfather who was a Baptist preacher Reed legally changed his last name in 1969. Walking the Somme book As a child and adolescent Reed studied the organ and harpsichord and as an adult he obtained a B A in Sociology from California State University Chico in 1978 and an M A in Social Anthropology from the University of California at Davis in 1981. Walking the sommeville Reed s move to San Francisco occurred one month after the Centers for Disease Control published Pneumocystis Pneumonia Los Angeles in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report the report that introduced the medical world to what would become known as AIDS. Book Walking the sommer ray Reed entered the Castro gay urban subculture as post Stonewall gay liberation zeal gave way to the sobering realities of the AIDS epidemic The sense of this change is reflected in his somewhat autobiographical novel Longing 1988 which narrates its protagonist s similar move to San Francisco The specter of the epidemic looms within the novel and indeed permeates all of Reed s writing This consciousness is a direct result of Reed s life experiences for in addition to writing during the emergence of the HIV virus Reed also survived the transformation of AIDS from an acute to a chronic condition. Book Walking the somme Reed claims in The Redwood Diary A Journal 1995 to have known he had AIDS at least as early as 1981 Reed s understanding may well be retrospective however since AIDS was not named until midyear 1982 nonetheless Reed HIV seroconverted during the early years of the epidemic. Walking the sommet des Surviving until 2002 Reed lived to witness and benefit from progressive advances in antiretroviral therapies More specifically when Reed s T cell count dropped to 120 in late 1987 he benefited from the Federal Drug Administration s approval of AZT the reverse transcriptase inhibitor he credited for his recovery Similarly when Reed s viral load the amount of HIV in the bloodstream rose to an incredible 1. Walking the sommen oefenen Reed also experienced the waves of AIDS bereavement common to the early years of the pandemic having lost his lover Tom in 1990 and several acquaintances peers and friends notably his intimate long term friend Cap in 1996 This personal history and epidemiological context informs all of Reed s writings as they document the changes and challenges facing a writer living with AIDS. Walking the sommen en Reed himself succumbed to complications of AIDS on January 28 2002 site_link This book is a vital companion if you are ever visiting the Somme battlefields Brilliantly researched and nicely put together so it is very easy to follow when you are in the middle of a field Paperback
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