| A Bigger Field Awaits Us: The Scottish Football Team That Fought the Great War Contributor(s): Beaujon, Andrew (Author), Gillies, Dave (Narrated by) |
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ISBN: 1541417739 ISBN-13: 9781541417731 Publisher: Tantor Audio OUR PRICE: $35.99 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: November 2018 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War I - History | Europe - Great Britain - 20th Century - Sports & Recreation | History |
| Dewey: 796.334 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 6.4" (0.40 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Scottish - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Each November, about a hundred people with paper poppies pinned to their coats gather around a memorial in Edinburgh. They're there to commemorate the more than a dozen members of the local football team, Heart of Midlothian-almost every member of its starting lineup and many of its backup players-who went to war. When they enlisted in November 1914, the Edinburgh Evening News ran pages of splendid photos of the Hearts players in McCrae's Battalion. After the war, surviving soldiers, many of them wounded, gassed, and suffering from what was then called shell shock, returned home to a public that had only the weakest grasp of what had happened. Perhaps the pointlessness of so much suffering and death was too awful to contemplate. All of Edinburgh threw a parade for the men of McCrae's Battalion when they marched off to war, but no one wanted to be reminded that their commanders later traded their lives and health for a few yards of French mud. A Bigger Field Awaits Us tells the little-known but poignant story of a group of Scottish athletes and their fans who went to war together-and the stories of the few who made it home. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beaujon, Andrew: - Andrew Beaujon is a senior editor at Washingtonian magazine in Washington, DC. He also has worked as a music critic for Spin, a recipe editor for Martha Stewart Living, and as the managing editor of Washington City Paper, and is the author of Body Piercing Saved My Life.Gillies, Dave: - Dave Gillies is a musician, producer, and voice-over artist who is best known for his work as an audiobook narrator. When not talking for a living, Dave composes music for films, radio, and theater from the comfort of his home studio in Glasgow, Scotland. |