Buy this book on-line ROBINSON**, CHRIS: : PLYMOUTH'S GREAT WAR: The Three Towns United in ConflictUK.PLYMOUTH,DEVON.PEN & INK PUBLISHING,2014. ISBN 9780956985873.
UK,Landscape 8vo wraps,softback,1st edn.No owner inscrptn and absence of publisher's price to card covers.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, glossy,b/w photographic front cover with maroon lettering,spine/backstrip with continuation of front photograph with similar lettering and no reading creases to same,rear cover with red background and contemporary colour photographs/postcards,colour reproduction illustration and colour region map; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread apart from my own collation.UK,Landscape 8vo wraps,softback,1st edn,4-272pp [paginated] includes colour map of the Three Towns to reverse of the contents list/table,author's introduction,22 chapters,3 appendices (a,b,c - Three Towns Mayors/ MPs, acknowledgements and a bibliography respectively); plus [unpaginated] title page repeated from front cover's photograph and contents list/table.
In this,the most comprehensive account ever published of Plymouth in the Great War,Chris Robinson looks at life in the Three Towns 100 years ago,prior to the Amalgamation of 1914,and then offers a fascinating and fully illustrated account of how the war impacted on the area and, with need to bring women into the workplace,on society.
The Great War also brought the Royal Naval Air Service (later the RAF) to the area,creating the unusual,if not unique,situation whereby Plymouth had a base for each of the four armed services; the Royal Navy,Army,Royal Marines and Royal Air Force.However,not only was Plymouth a significant military base,it was also home to the mighty Devonport Dockyard,giving it a key role in the defence of the British Isles.
Plymouth also played a major part in nursing our wounded soldiers and sailors,as most of the then new Board Schools were converted to temporary hospital facilities to help cope with the hundreds of thousands of casualties coming back to Blighty.
The fifth book in his series on Plymouth in the 20thC,this is a must-have item for anyone interested in the city's history.
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