Sutton Publishing 075093168x Conscripts, Forgotten Men of the Great War

Drawing on diaries, letters and personal accounts from conscripts who served on the Western Front in the latter half of the Great War, this work explores the contribution they made to the war effort. By the end of the war more than 2.5 million men had been conscripted, but their memory has not lived on; they are the lost legions of World War I. Here, at last, their story is told: the story of ordinary men, from manual workers to clerks and solicitors, who became soldiers, fought and - for those who survived - went home.