The Battalion: Citizen Soldiers at War on the Western Front

Ordinary citizens become infantrymen in a World War I battalion, revealing frontline life, battles, and resilience through letters, diaries, and modern military scholarship.

How did ordinary citizens become soldiers during the First World War, and how did they cope with the extraordinary challenges they confronted on the Western Front? These are questions Ian Isherwood seeks to answer in this absorbing and deeply researched study of the actions and experiences of an infantry battalion throug...