Frontline Cookbook: Battlefield Recipes from the Second World War

by Andrew Robertshaw

According to Napoleon, an army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too - yet have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are fed amidst hails of bullets and how kitchens are created in the desert or in the trench lines? In 1941 the Army officially created the Army Catering Corps and opened the Army School of Cookery in Aldershot. Troops were trained to make meals out of the bare minimum of ingredients, to feed a company...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752476653
• ISBN13: 9780752476650
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Spellmount Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.