They Did Not Grow Old: Teenage Conscripts On The Western Front, 1918 - Couverture souple

Lynch, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 075248916X ISBN 13 : 9780752489162

Editeur : Spellmount, 2013

Synopsis

In June 1918, 135 teenagers arrived in France as just another draft of replacements among the thousands sent to reinforce the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front. Within the next five months, one in four would be dead, over half of them wounded. This is the story of the lives and deaths of these ordinary young men in an unimaginable war. By focussing on this one party of Doomed Youth, author Tim Lynch is able to explore and explain several aspects of the Great War which have received scant attention. Firstly, the summer of 1918 itself. Why was it necessary for these boys to die so late in the conflict? The German Spring Offensive had failed - but so did the calls for an Armistice, and the second Battle of the Marne in July would take many more lives. The butchery would continue, pointlessly, to November. Secondly, there is very little written about conscription itself and the Home Front, about rationing and even organised opposition to the War.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tim Lynch is a military historian and author of a number of books and articles. He is a member of the Historical Writers Association and the Guild of Battlefield Guides, and has worked with the No Man's Land World War I archaeology group. He is the author of Battlefield Archaeology, Dunkirk 1940: Whereabouts Unknown, and Operation Market Garden: The Legend of the Waal Crossing, among other titles. Tim is a regular contributor to Britain at War and Military History magazine, as well as other British and US publications.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spellmount
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 075248916X
• ISBN 13: 9780752489162
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible