Author: Wilkinson, Roni,
Title: PALS ON THE SOMME 1916.
Description: Pen and Sword Military, Barnsley, 2006, 1st edn., 221pp, half tone ills., maps and facsimiles thoughout, [ii] index, 9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of events leading to WW1, of the outbreak of the war and the need to raise a New Army, of the call for volunteers and Lord Derby's suggestion that local workforces join 'en bloc' creating the 'Pals' or 'City' battalions (units raised by local authority or private body which undertook to organise, clothe, billet and feed the recruits), their training and eventually meeting the enemy on the Somme battfield where the menfolk of whole communities were wiped out, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,
Keywords: war ww1 kitchener army somme western front
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Title: PALS ON THE SOMME 1916.
Description: Pen and Sword Military, Barnsley, 2006, 1st edn., 221pp, half tone ills., maps and facsimiles thoughout, [ii] index, 9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of events leading to WW1, of the outbreak of the war and the need to raise a New Army, of the call for volunteers and Lord Derby's suggestion that local workforces join 'en bloc' creating the 'Pals' or 'City' battalions (units raised by local authority or private body which undertook to organise, clothe, billet and feed the recruits), their training and eventually meeting the enemy on the Somme battfield where the menfolk of whole communities were wiped out, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,
Keywords: war ww1 kitchener army somme western front
Price: GBP 21.50 = appr. US$ 30.70 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 38993
- Book number: 38993
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