Bully Beef and Biscuits - Food in the Great War

by John Hartley

Napoleon Bonaparte is often credited with saying that 'an army marches on its stomach'. A hundred years after his time, the soldiers of the Great War would do little marching. Instead, they would fight their battles from cold, muddy trenches, looking out across No Man's Land towards another set of trenches that housed the enemy. It is one of the remarkable successes of the war that they rarely went hungry.

During the war, the army grew from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473827450
• ISBN13: 9781473827455
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"