Volunteers
The Incredible Story of Kitchener's Army Through Soldiers' and Civilians' Own Words and Photographs
$64.04
- Hardcover
376 pages
- Release Date
23 October 2023
Summary
What greater pride might a young man feel than to serve shoulder to shoulder with his friends in time of war? To enlist into the army with his pals, chums, mates, filling the ranks of battalions that drew their strength from the local community, from amongst factory workers, miners, shop-workers and tradesmen. In August 1914, what more fitting role was there to play than to answer the country’s call to arms? The past is another country, of course: the world in which these men grew up and the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473891869 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473891868 |
| Author: | Richard van Emden |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Military |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 1.09kg |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Richard van Emden
RICHARD VAN EMDEN has interviewed more than 270 veterans of the Great War and has written seventeen books on the subject including The Trench and The Last Fighting Tommy, both of which were top ten bestsellers. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the Great War, including the award-winning Roses of No-Man’s Land, Britain’s Boy Soldiers, A Poem for Harry, War Horse: the Real Story, Teenage Tommies with Fergal Keane and most recently, Hidden Histories: WW1’s Forgotten Photographs. He lives in London.
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