August [1914]

August [1914]
Authors
Rowe, Mark
Publisher
Chaplin Books
Tags
kitchener , winston churchill , soldiers , volunteers , declaration of war , first world war , the great war , world war i , suffragettes , wwi
ISBN
9781909183377
Date
2013-09-06T00:00:00+00:00
Size
2.92 MB
Lang
en
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August 1914 is the story of England in that watershed month when the country went from peace to war. It tells of what life was like in a country that looked, and smelt, very different to today. Work could be long, hard and deadly; pleasures were rough and simple; religion was a comfort for many. Some of the people whose stories you will encounter are well-known, such as Winston Churchill, the rising First Lord of the Admiralty. Others were not famous figures - Winston's sister-in-law, the self-centred Lady 'Goonie' Churchill; William Swift, the village headmaster, retired to his garden; the game-shooting student Clifford Gothard, and the aristocrat Gerald Legge. Their diaries and letters tell vividly what they did and thought, and how they reacted to the news of armies on the march across Europe. Mark Rowe's fascinating book gives a unique insight into the main events of that month - the outburst of patriotism in front of Buckingham Palace, the panic-buying, the rush by some to...