Public Schools and the Great War: the generation lost by Seldon, Anthony & Walsh, David - 2013

Paperback. Very Good.

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Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword, 2013. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xviii, 318pp, central section of black and white photographic plates. Brown cloth-covered boards, red titles on spine. 8vo. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, not price clipped.

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2013. 1st. h/b. Fine, 1st edition.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The book examines the impact which the Great War had on the Public Schools and the sacrificial contribution made to the victory which came in 1918. The war consumed about a fifth of all the public schoolboys who fought, while the survivors were scarred by the loss of so many friends. Based largely on source material from school archives and histories, it moves from the naive excitement of the summer of 1914 to the many moving stories that emerge from the carnage of the Western Front. It looks at school life in those war years, boys with their futures on hold and the prospect of death always very close, Headmasters and staff devastated by the loss of so many young lives. About one distinguished Headmaster, who died in January 1919, it was said that 'the War killed him as straightly and surely as if he had fallen at the front'. The book ranges across many topics including the selflessness and pride of Public… Read More

Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2013. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book (WW1)

Pen & Sword Military, 2014. Hardcover. New. 317 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches.