'We woke to the call of bugles, and slept to the sound of tired route-marchers coming home.' As Rachael Poole recalled in December 1918, Oxford was transformed during the Great War. Soldiers and cadets occupied most men's colleges which were left virtually empty as undergraduates and some younger dons enlisted. Lecture rooms were used for military training, practice trenches were dug in green spaces, and trainee pilots flew from a temporary Port Meadow...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1783462973
ISBN13:9781783462971
Release Date:February 2015
Publisher:Pen & Sword Military
Length:176 Pages
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