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Bully Beef and Biscuits - Food in the Great War

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Bully Beef and Biscuits - Nutrient in the Great State of war (Hardback)

WWI Military Food and Beverage

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Napoleon Bonaparte is often credited with maxim that 'an regular army marches on its stomach'. A hundred years after his time, the soldiers of the Great War would do little marching. Instead, they would fight their battles from cold, muddy trenches, looking out beyond No Man's Land towards another fix of trenches that housed the enemy. It is one of the remarkable successes of the war that they rarely went hungry.

During the state of war, the regular army grew from its peace-fourth dimension numbers of 250,000 to well over 3 one thousand thousand. They needed three meals a day and, using the men'south ain letters and diaries, John Hartley tells the story of the food they ate, how it got to them in those trenches and what they idea of it. It's the story of eating bully beefiness and regular army 'dog biscuits' under burn down and it's the story of the enjoyment of food parcels from home or eating egg and chips in a café on a rare off-duty evening. It's also the story of the lives of loved ones at home – how they coped with rationing and how women changed their place in lodge, taking on jobs previously held past men, many working equally subcontract labourers in the Women's Land Ground forces. This is a book which will appeal to nutrient lovers as well as those with an interest in military and social history.

Fascinating detail is adult on the process of getting food to soldiers on the front end, aslope personal accounts. To compliment this process, it is remarkable to think that, by 1918, almost 100,000 men has been trained as cooks. A Included are tremendous photographs, such every bit cook houses, and field kitchens, and the men cooking for themselves in the trenches; which compliment the groundwork of this process. Interestingly, we are reminded that hot food prepared by cooks, could be the daily ration for men in the front end line, it was more often supplied when the unit were on relief in the reserve areas. So, on other days, men would accept to exercise their own booking, very often using tinned producers such equally 'meat and vegetable ration'. This was a matter stew usually comprising beef, potatoes, beans, carrots and onions or similar vegetables. Very useful information is given, such as the role of Maconochie Brothers to supply the Army via tinned products... Overall, a fantastic book which would fit as comfortably in a school Home Economics Cookery Section was information technology would in a History Section.
Jon Sandison, Freelance

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This England - Jump 2016

John Hartley's book is well-researched, well-written, humorous and engaging...The book is beautifully presented and leap, with some very witty captions for the photographs...A book that deserves a wide audition.
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The People'south Friend

Much of his enquiry has plundered first-hand accounts from memoirs and letters, and his book features numerous photographs of field bakeries and fry-ups in the trenches. Each chapter too has wartime recipes so you lot can experience the food for yourself!
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