World War 1's Centenary Year has brought to light a large number of war diaries, but this is one that is different, if not unique, in its contents. It tells the story of a mechanical transport company supplying a cavalry brigade with ammunition for its horse artillery. Mechanical transport was a new branch of the Army, and there are very few eye-witness accounts of what it was like to be involved with it in those early days. So readers will be able to picture what it felt like to drive a lorry with no windscreen and solid tyres, as it jolted over the French pave in all weathers - not to...