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Sheffield's Great War and Beyond


peterwarr

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SHEFFIELD’S GREAT WAR AND BEYOND (http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sheffields-Great-War-and-Beyond/p/9813) has just been published.  This is the companion book to Sheffield in the Great War, which appeared recently.

 

The two books both cover life and events in the city across all years of the First World War, but in addition they emphasize different themes.  The first one contains lots of information (much of it almost unknown) about military hospitals and Sheffielders’ astonishing voluntary efforts.  And SHEFFIELD’S GREAT WAR AND BEYOND also describes the several hundred Sheffield companies (a few large ones but most small and now unknown) which provided munitions and other items for the war effort. It also tells about the Cutlers’ Company and Sheffield University, both of which were very active in the period.  Also included is Sheffield’s own aeroplane, with a caribou motif on its fuselage as well as the city’s name.  Where did that come from and what happened to it?

 

In addition, SHEFFIELD’S GREAT WAR AND BEYOND is different from any other book by painting a picture of events in the following few years. The city lived through mass unemployment and poverty, widespread strikes, provocation from an active Communist Party, riots and deaths.

 

Both books are packed with interesting pictures.  As with Sheffield in the Great War, author’s royalties for SHEFFIELD’S GREAT WAR AND BEYOND are sent direct by the publisher to the Royal British Legion for use in the Sheffield area.  Both are worth a look!

 

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