Oxford in the Great War

by Malcolm Graham

'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