Clyde’s War: A First World War on the land, on the sea, and in the air

On the Sea. On the Land. In the Air.

Clyde Lovely did not just witness the First World War; he experienced it on every front.

Before the guns of August 1914 fired, Clyde was already a hardened survivor: a Merchant Navy officer who had battled the treacherous Southern Ocean as a ＂Cape Horner.＂ But when war broke out, he traded the deck for the dugout, leading men as a Platoon Commander in the mud of the Western Front during the battles of Loos and the Somme.

Yet Clyde’s war was far from over. Seeking a new vantage point, he took to the skies with the Royal Flying Corps, engaging in the terrifying dawn of aerial combat until the strain of shell shock forced him back to the earth he had tried to escape.

From the trenches of France to the colonial outposts of Hong Kong and Mesopotamia, Clyde’s War is the breathless true story of one man’s extraordinary service. Meticulously researched by his great-grandson, this is a vivid portrait of a soldier, sailor, and airman who saw the Great War from every conceivable angle.