The Lost Sketchbooks: A Young Artist in The Great War

The Lost Sketchbooks, A Young Artist in The Great War is the story of Corporal Edward Shenton of Company B, 103rd Engineers, 28th Division and his service in World War One. Ed never kept a diary and none of his letters home have been found but he did keep sketchbooks in which he recorded his wartime experiences in drawings rather than in words. When he returned home, he put his sketchbooks away and continued his art career, which spanned more than fifty years. Now nine decades later Ed Shenton's drawings have been discovered and published. The one hundred and fifty sketches tell the story of his training in Maryland and Georgia, his combat in Second Battle of the Marne and in the Meuse-Argonne and his time in France after the Armistice. The Lost Sketchbooks is an intimate tale of a young man s two-year odyssey told by his drawings. The images are very immediate and personal and make one feel as if they are walking beside him in The Great War.