Hear Their Footsteps: King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and the Old Edwardians in the Great War 1914-18

by John Cornwell

The book recounts the story of an elite Yorkshire day school - and its 'Old Boys' who joined the forces - in the First World War. The school was founded by Sheffield City Council in 1905, who finessed an amalgamation of two much older institutions as one of a number of prestigious projects (Sheffield University was founded the same year) to give a great - albeit new - northern industrial city the infrastructure and trappings commensurate with its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911096265
• ISBN13: 9781911096269
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"