‘Four Years Remembered’

  Leicester During the Great War

   (Breedon Publishing Co., 1999)

              ISBN 1 85983 182 6

 

With the outbreak of war in August 1914 life in Leicester was to change irrevocably ......

 

The  huge  demands   to  provide  men  to  fight  with  the  British Expeditionary Force  on the  Western Front, combined  with   the need for an increased workforce at home to maintain an industrial output  led  to  great conflicts of  interest.   An energetic  anti-war campaign  by  one  of  the borough’s two Members of Parliament,  - Ramsay MacDonald  - led  to severe criticism  throughout  the           entire  period,  of Leicester’s  commitment to the war effort.

 

      Four Years Remembered vividly examines the issues      surrounding life  in  the town  during those war years.   It  tells amongst  other things  the story  of shortages,  the raising of local army units, and many  other aspects of life in a typical Midlands  town...