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Barnsley Pals
Jon Cooksey
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Description for Barnsley Pals
Hardcover. Presents the history of the raising, training and service of the Barnsley Pals in the Great War. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 179 x 26. Weight in Grams: 896.
The 'Pals' battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby's scheme, and in response to Kitchener's famous call for a million volunteers, 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, had worked, volunteered, and trained together, and had shipped to France together, encountered the first full fury of modern battle on the Somme in July 1916. Many of the Pals battalions would not long survive that first brutal baptism, ... Read more
The 'Pals' battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby's scheme, and in response to Kitchener's famous call for a million volunteers, 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, had worked, volunteered, and trained together, and had shipped to France together, encountered the first full fury of modern battle on the Somme in July 1916. Many of the Pals battalions would not long survive that first brutal baptism, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844157075
SKU
V9781844157075
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99-2
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