Miners in the Great War

by Brian Elliott

At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, despite many difficulties and falling manpower, coalmining was the most important industry in Great Britain. It employed around a million persons in well over 3,000 pits ranging from small hillside drift mines with a few hands to substantial collieries with workforces and pit communities the size of villages and small towns. A few months into the conflict, Lloyd George in a patriotic speech to a coal conference...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473827264
• ISBN13: 9781473827264
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 192 Pages