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Bully Beef and Biscuits - Food in the Great War
John Hartley
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Description for Bully Beef and Biscuits - Food in the Great War
Hardback. An insightful look at the varying types of food eaten during the Great War and the differences in quality between the ordinary troops on the front lines and the officers. The book explores the accounts of men cooking and eating on the front line and the difficulties they faced. Num Pages: 256 pages, Approx 120 B&W photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 34. Weight in Grams: 970.
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 its peace-time numbers of 250,000 to well over 3 million. They needed three meals a day and, using the men's own letters and ... Read more
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 its peace-time numbers of 250,000 to well over 3 million. They needed three meals a day and, using the men's own letters and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
970g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473827455
SKU
V9781473827455
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-12
About John Hartley
John Hartley is a Cheshire man who worked in and around Manchester. Now retired he lives near Cheadle, Cheshire.
Reviews for Bully Beef and Biscuits - Food in the Great War
John Hartley's book is well-researched, well-written, humorous and engaging...The book is beautifully presented and bound, with some very witty captions for the photographs...A book that deserves a wide audience.
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