Re: "THE BANTAMS: The Untold Story Of World War One."

From: Dr. Edward Warren (e-warren_at_att.net)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:24:55 GMT

I hope that they were not chicken.

"Sidney Allinson" <sidneya@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:50a8a36e.0409111512.32ce51ac@posting.google.com...
> Poultry owners may be amused/intrigued to know that a revised
> new edition of my 1981 [non-fiction] historical book,
> "THE BANTAMS" is being re-published this very day.
> It contains much detail of daily life on the home front in
> Canada and Britain during World War One -- "The Great War."
> It also presents an unblinking picture of trench warfare in
> France and Belgium during the 1914-1918 era.
> It is a study of the 50,000 British and Canadian men below
> the regulation minimum height of 5ft. 3ins. who volunteered
> to serve in "Bantam" battalions during the First World War.
> 'Based on many personal wartime recollections of 350
> veteran Bantams I interviewed, plus accurate first-hand
> accounts of trench warfare. This revised version also
> contains a good deal of new information that was not public
> knowledge when I originally researched it -- including details
> of military executions.
> For more information, go to:
> https://www1.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=22708
> Best Regards -- Sidney Allinson.

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