Tommy Goes to War

by Malcolm Brown

Book Overview

The image of the innocent British soldier (or "Tommy") setting off with a spring in his step in 1914 to fight the "Great War" would not last long. Indeed that initial euphoria would soon give way to a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752429809
• ISBN13: 9780752429809
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Tempus
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.8" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

The Tommy's Scrapbook for WW1

I recommend this book for the pictures alone. This book is not as good as either Mud, Blood and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan, or Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Richard Holmes. On the other hand, this book used a lot of excerpts from letters, and hundreds of pictures. Quite of bit of the book discusses the "Pals" or "Chums" battalions, this was a British idea of having all of a public schools graduates join the same battalion. This turned out to be a horrible idea, especially when the chums all went over the top together into several machine guns.