York in the Great War

by Karyn Burnham

The ancient City of York had been a garrison town for over a hundred years before the outbreak of war in 1914 but although the citizens of York were used to a military presence, nothing could prepare them for the changes that would envelop their city over the coming years. As Belgian refugees flooded into York during the early months of the war, so enemy 'aliens' were rounded up and held in an internment camp and riots broke out as residents unlucky...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783376090
• ISBN13: 9781783376094
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 160 Pages