This book tells Cambridge’s fascinating story in the grim years of the Great War. Thousands of university students, graduates and lecturers alike enlisted, along with the patriotic townsfolk. The First Eastern General Military Hospital was subsequently established in Trinity College and treated more than 80,000 casualties from the Western Front. Though the university had been the longtime hub of life and employment in the town, many people suffered great losses and were parted from loved ones, decimating traditional breadwinners and livelihoods, from the rationing of food, drink and fuel, to hundreds of restrictions imposed by DORA. As a result, feelings ran high and eventually led to riots beneath the raiding zeppelins and ever-present threat of death.
The poet, Rupert Brooke, a graduate of King’s College, died on his way to the Dardanelles in 1915, but his most famous poem The Soldier became a preemptive memorial and the epitaph of millions.
If I should die
Think only this of me
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.
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Produktfakta
ISBN: 9781473864757
Utgivningsdatum: 2021-08-03
Språk: Engelska
Författare: Glynis Cooper
Förlag: Pen and Sword
Längd: 128 sidor