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Bully beef and biscuits food in the Great War

By John , Hartley

Book information

Publisher
Pen and Sword Military
Year
2015
ISBN
9781473827455, 9781473854802, 9781473854857, 1473827450
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
71 MB (74688489 bytes)
Pages
376 S. ill\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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 diaries, John Hartley tells t.

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