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Boy Soldiers of the Great War
At the outbreak of the First World War, boys as young as thirteen, caught up in the overwhelming tide of patriotism, enlisted for active service in huge numbers. Many were to serve in the bloodiest battles of the war, like Frank Lindley, who seeking to avenge his dead brother, went over the top on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He was just sixteen. Drawing on un...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
March 1st 2005
by Headline Book Publishing
(first published 2005)
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I remember years back going to Flanders and visiting the WWI battlefields and cemeteries and at Essex Farm standing in front of the grave of a fourteen-year-old solder and not being able to grasp that this kid, who was my age at the time, had gone into battle, gone into that hell and gone over the top and been killed and at fourteen. This book really just reinforces that whilst he may have been particularly young, there were thousands and thousands of underage soldiers in the First World War, ki...more
Dips in and out of the lives of several Boy Soldiers. Heartbreaking tales of the boys who went off for a better life!
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