Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Dorking in the Great War
Автор: Kathryn Atherton
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473825520
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 160
Размер: 19,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

From Zeppelin raids to housing refugees and evacuees or from men volunteering to fight or women working in the local Gunpowder factory, Dorking in the Great War looks at how the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Dorking were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. The Great War affected everyone. At home there were wounded soldiers in military hospitals, refugees from Belgium and later on German prisoners of war. There were food and fuel shortages and disruption to schooling.