Boy Soldiers of the Great War: Their Own Stories for the First Time by Richard van Emden

Boy Soldiers of the Great War: Their Own Stories for the First Time

Richard van Emden

352 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective slow-paced
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At the outbreak of the First World War, boys as young as thirteen, caught up in the overwhelming tide of patriotism, enlisted for active service in huge numbers. Many were to serve in the bloodiest battles of the war, like Frank Lindley, who seeki...

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