Dorset In The First World War

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Dorset's pivotal role in the Second World War is well known, not least thanks to the researches & publications of Rodney Legg. In this new book, he turns his attentions to the county in the Great War
- the experience on the Home Front & Dorset's contribution to the eventual victory. Covering subjects as diverse as the Dorset Regiments, the vital Naval presence at Portland & Dorset's War Poets, Rodney Legg also emphasizes that in terms of interest for the reader, the bonus is that much of what happened in Dorset during the First World War turns out to have been either directly or indirectly due to the ideas & enthusiasms of Winston Churchill, including the ground-breaking development of the tank. Packed with information & illustrated with historic images, Dorset in the First World War is a fascinating portrait of how the " War to End all Wars" impacted on what in other circumstances might have remained a largely remote & bucolic corner of rural Engl&, that instead was thrust into the maelstrom of international conflict.