A Decade Like No Other, 1911-1920; Volume I: Countdown to Catastrophe, 1911-1914 Archaeology Shirley s memoir provides a

Shirley s memoir provides a rare view of a community s involvement in a national war effort at a venue geographically far removed from the conflict itself

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A Decade Like No Other, 1911-1920; Volume I: Countdown to Catastrophe, 1911-1914 Archaeology Shirley s memoir provides aDescription by Dennis Cross Paperback This is the second volume of a projected three volume illustrated history of the years leading up to and through the First World War and its immediate aftermath. Rather than telling a single story, it follows the news of the world, month by month, much as it was experienced by the people who lived through it, reminding us that every day the battles being waged in Europe were competing for attention with political