The hidden and often moving story of Britain's coming of age in the First World War.
The First World War as a milestone in modern memory and as a coming-of-age for Britain, looking at the event in terms of its aftermath.
'Oliver has written a deeply moving book about a war that is rapidly receding in our national consciousness . . . This book tells not merely of captains and kings, but of the ordinary men who battled, and the women who cared for them, more than 90 years ago. They deserve to be remembered.'
