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Military History Matters - August/September 2021

As seen in Military History Monthly

Military History Monthly

No provincial city was more profoundly involved in the Great War than Manchester. Its men volunteered in greater numbers than any others; its women, hardened to the rigours of factory life, flooded into munitions and engineering workshops, toiling long hours while contending with cruel shortages.

Written by a former history teacher turned author from Westhoughton, he has turned the spotlight on the city.

Lancashire Life Magazine

A very readable and interesting book, packed with information about how Manchester coped with the hardships of the Great War.
Recommended to anyone with and interest in Manchester's Great War history.

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine

As seen in the Bury Times.

Bury Times

As seen in the Prestwich & Whitefield Guide.

Prestwich & Whitefield Guide

As seen in The Bolton News.

The Bolton News

This is an excellent book in a brilliant series of books on our towns and cities during the war. It is an excellent tool to show students today how much was done by the whole population in the war effort. This book helps to bring home that the war was not just fought at the front but here at home too.

Paul Diggett

As seen in Lancashire Living Magazine.

Lancashire Living Magazine.

This book will obviously have greater appeal in the north west and amongst those who can count Manchester servicemen in their family trees, but it also stands on its own as a nicely drawn vignette of one of Britain's foremost industrial cities during the First World War. I did not know for instance, that by July 1918 there were 2400 Manchester Regiment PoWs in Germany who were dependent on the War Comforts Committee and its fundraising efforts.

Recommended.

Paul Nixon