Ashton-Under-Lyne in the Great War

by Glynis Cooper

A new book on Ashton-under-Lyne during World War I is being published as part of a series on Towns and Cities in the Great War to commemorate the centenary of the beginning of the War. It focuses on the economic and social conditions, problems and hardships of those left at home in England played out against a background of military action on the Western Front, in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine. Ashton was both a garrison town and a mill town. There...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473823137
• ISBN13: 9781473823136
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 176 Pages