In its first week of publication, the week leading up to Remembrance Day on 11th November 2007, Somme: the Experiences of a Very Unimportant Officer achieved widespread national media coverage. Even the Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron, referred to it in a column in the Sunday Telegraph (see below). 

Jaime Cameron Stewart was interviewed on national television and BBC radio. The story of the diary also appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Mail and The Daily Express as well as regional newspapers and local radio.     

David Cameron wrote in the Sunday Telegraph on Remembrance Sunday -

A less well known account, revealed just this week, is Captain Alexander Stewart's modestly titled The Experiences of a Very Unimportant Officer. His recollections are punctuated with a dry humour that one can only admire. But in a typically moving passage, he describes how each of his men clambered out of the trenches into no man's land, without the "sound of drum, pipes or trumpet to encourage him...slowly moving across an open space with a certain knowledge that he would be killed or wounded."

No fanfare, the prospect of serious danger: reading this portrayal of bravery reminds me very much of visiting our troops in conflicts today...

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