Название: Kitchener's Men: The King's Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front 1915-1918
Автор: John Hutton
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1459688082
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 532
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 3,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
In Kitchener's Men John Hutton provides a absorbing account of the raising, training and fighting experiences of the Service and Territorial battalions of the King’s Own Royal Lancasters in France during the Great War. His book gives a graphic insight into the daily routine and grim reality of warfare on the Western Front for men who were mostly recruited from the Furness area of the northwest. They came from the steel mills, shipyards and engineering workshops of this heavily industrialized part of Britain. They responded to the call to defend their country and its values at a critical moment in the nation’s history, and the endured incredible hardship, suffering and violence as a result. All together, these battalions of the King's Own took part in every major campaign on the Western Front from the spring of 1915 until the end of the war.