author
John Ward
1866–1934
A soldier, trade union leader, and MP, he wrote from direct experience of war and political upheaval. His books bring a ground-level view of the British campaigns in Palestine and Siberia in the years around the First World War.
1 Audiobook
With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia
by John Ward
About the author
Born in 1866 and died in 1934, John Ward was an English trade union leader who also served as a soldier and later sat in Parliament. Reliable sources identify him as Lieutenant-Colonel John Ward, a Liberal politician as well as a prominent labor organizer, giving his writing an unusual mix of military experience and public life.
He is best remembered as the author of wartime memoirs and campaign narratives, including With the British Army in The Holy Land and With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia. These works draw on his own service and leadership, offering readers a firsthand account of British military involvement in Palestine and in the Siberian intervention after the First World War.
What makes his work interesting today is the perspective behind it: he was not simply observing events from a distance, but writing as someone deeply involved in them. For listeners who enjoy memoir, military history, or eyewitness accounts of a turbulent era, his books offer a direct and personal voice from the early twentieth century.