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Oxford ; Philadelphia : Casemate, 2017

1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations, maps

ISBN 9781612004853 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781612004846

Casemate short history

Print version: Serdiville, Rosie Tommies : the British Army in the trenches. Oxford ; Philadelphia : Casemate, 2017 156 pages Casemate short history. ISBN 9781612004846

British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the name is particularly associated with the British soldier in World War I. In 1914, a small professional force of British soldiers crossed the Channel to aid the French. It soon became apparent that the war would be protracted, and a vast drive for volunteer soldiers began. By 1918 the army was transformed, fielding 5.5 million men on the Western Front alone. These Tommies were fighting an entirely new type of war, living and dying in vast trench systems, threatened by death from the air or by gas attack as well as by rifle or bayonet. This book explores the development of the ’Tommy’, and his experience of war..

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