Shattering accounts of the Great War, from those left to grieve
BOOK OF THE WEEK AS WE WERE by David Hargreaves and Margaret-Louise O’Keeffe (Whitefox £100, 2,288 pp) We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying,’ wrote Private Pearson of the Leeds Pals, a World War I battalion recruited from the Yorkshire city. He was referring to the horrors of July … Read more