by Andrew Riddoch (Author), Andrew Riddoch (Author), Richard Holmes (Foreword), John Kemp (Author)
This book includes a foreword by Richard Holmes. This timely history - published in the 90th anniversary year of the end of the Great War - tells the full story of the 17th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, the 'Footballers' Battalion'. Based on extensive original research, Andrew Riddoch and John Kemp draw on many previously unpublished letters, personal accounts and photographs to paint a vivid portrait of this legendary British Army battalion that fought in three of the fiercest battles of the Great War - the Somme, Arras and Cambrai. The authors show how this remarkable battalion helped shape football, as well as military history.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Haynes Publishing
Published: 20 Nov 2008
ISBN 10: 1844256561
ISBN 13: 9781844256563