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BIRMINGHAM IN THE GREAT WAR - MOBILISATION AND RECRUITMENT
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Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1783032901 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781783032907 |
| Publisher: |
PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2016 |
| Pages: |
248 |
| Description: |
The story of the March 1915 embarkation of the Birmingham Territorials to France and a month later the 9th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. |
| Synopsis: |
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Birmingham were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through. Birmingham's part in the Great War is well documented from the production of Rifles and Lewis Guns at the B.S.A. to the mind boggling 25 million rifle cartridges produced weekly at Kynochs. Aeroplanes, Tanks, Armoured Cars, Military trucks, shell fuses, shell cases, Mills bombs and hundreds of other intricate parts needed to make military hardware. "The country, the empire and the world owe to the skill, the ingenuity, the industry and the resource of Birmingham a deep debt of gratitude," to quote Prime Minister Lloyd George and former Minister of Munitions. But that is only part of the story. Around 150,000 Birmingham men enlisted and sadly approximately 14,000 did not return.No story of Birmingham's war effort can be told without mentioning the wives, moms, sisters and girlfriends who toiled away night and day working in munitions.Four years of local war time newspapers have been trawled through unearthing personal experiences of Brummagem folk in the Great War. |
| Illustrations: |
100 Illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Pen & Sword Military |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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