New PDF release: Frome in the Great War

By David Lassman

ISBN-10: 1473835933

ISBN-13: 9781473835931

The Somerset city of Frome is anything of a paradox. when you consider that being based on the finish of the 6th century its fiercely autonomous nature has been unchanging. A nature which, as one columnist has famous: 'seems to have revolved round the eminently good angle of “To hell with nationwide occasions! we'll remain as we are.”' And but a century in the past, whilst referred to as on by way of its kingdom to do its accountability within the nice struggle, it rose to the duty admirably.
Men from Frome and the encompassing region skilled motion in the entire theatres of struggle that the worldwide clash encompassed, they usually took half within the quite a few battles and campaigns, on land and at sea, that experience develop into synonymous with that clash: Ypres, Gallipoli, Jutland, the Somme. while, its civilian inhabitants acquired a distinct commendation after the struggle for its attempt all through it.
However, the town’s contribution didn't cease there, as a number of the returning infantrymen helped to create numerous of the nationwide and foreign monuments and memorials that will pay everlasting tribute to their comrades who fell at the fields of Flanders and in different places.
Using letters, diaries, images, newspaper studies and eyewitness debts, besides different archive fabric, neighborhood historian and writer David Lassman has assembled the tale of Frome throughout the nice battle; a narrative which charts the transformation of this as soon as wealthy and strong cloth centre and production city, besides its humans, in the course of the life-changing occasions of 1914 to 1918

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