As the men fight, the women left behind take on their duties to maintain the fabric of society, supporting the war effort, helping to bring in the harvest.
After the war to end all wars, the exhausted populace seek to return to normal life and honour their fallen. But money is scarce and plans to build a memorial take several false turns before the final tribute is made as an obelisk overlooking Abbey Fields.
This book should be of interest to the general reader fascinated by a good story as well as those interested in social and military history at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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In the Ancestors Magazine, November 2005, Issue 40, (published by the National Archives), readers, contributors and reviewers were asked to nominate candidates for BOOK OF THE YEAR. There in the list of nominees, following the 60 volume Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was ...
KENILWORTH AND THE GREAT WAR.
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