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This title includes a foreword by Richard Holmes. Now available in
paperback, this timely history tells the full story of the 17th
Battalion Middlesex Regiment, the 'Footballers' Battalion'. Based on
extensive original research, Andrew Riddoch and John Kemp draw on many
previously unpublished letters, personal accounts and photographs to
paint a vivid portrait of this legendary British Army battalion that
fought in three of the fiercest battles of the Great War - the Somme,
Arras and Cambrai. The authors show how this remarkable battalion helped
shape football, as well as military history.
