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A01=Stephen Wood
Author_Stephen Wood
Category1=Non-Fiction
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Category=JWT
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Format_Paperback
History of Military Life & Institutions
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IMPN=Amberley Publishing
ISBN13=9781445619453
Military History
Military History of Land Forces
Military History of Strategy
Military History of World War I
Military Vehicles
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PD=20140115
POP=Chalford
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PUB=Amberley Publishing
Subject=History
Subject=Warfare & Defence
Tactics & Military Science
War & Defence Operations
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WMM=165
World War One
WWI
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- ISBN 9781445619453
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 308g
- Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2014
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Chalford, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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At 07:30 on 1 July 1916, the men of the 15th Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), better known as the Leeds Pals, left their positions in a series of copses named after the Gospels and advanced towards the village of Serre, near Bapaume, in the Somme Valley, only to be met by heavy German machine gun fire, suffering over 500 casualties in a few minutes. Recruited from volunteers in the heady days of September 1914 following Lord Kitchener's call to arms and trained at Colsterdale in the Yorkshire Dales, the battalion was initially deployed to Egypt to defend the Suez Canal before being sent to France in March 1916 to join the build-up for the Battle of the Somme as part of 31st Division along with other famous Pals Battalions from Yorkshire and Lancashire. In this book, Stephen Wood tells the story of the Leeds Pals.
Stephen is a military history author specialising in the First World War.
