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(0)Jon Cooksey
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Military
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Under Lord Derby's 'Pals' battalions scheme local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front. Their experience was all too frequently tragic, as men who had known each other all their lives encountered the first full fury of modern battle on the Somme in July 1916.
Author
Publisher
Ebury Press
Description
Like many men of his generation Harry Drinkwater rushed to volunteer for King and country when war was declared in 1914. He joined a regiment of the Birmingham Pals and soon found himself marching through northern France en route to the trenches of the Somme. Unusually though, Harry kept a secret diary of his experiences throughout the war, despite it being illegal for him to do so. 100 years later Harry's words and experiences leap off the page with...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Military
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Until now Hugh Butterworth was just one of the millions of lost soldiers of the Great War, and the letters he sent home from the Western Front had been forgotten. But, after more than 90 years of obscurity, these letters, which describe his experience of war in poignant detail, have been rediscovered, and they are published here in full.