DIE-HARDS IN THE GREAT WAR (2 Volumes)

This is not a history that deals with each battalion of the Middlesex Regiment independently - there are too many of them. The narrative describes the fortunes of the 24 active service battalions (with very good maps) in the various theatres of war, though mainly on the Western Front, and on every page there is, in the margin, the date of the action or event being described and the battalion or battalions involved. The first volume covers 1914 to the end of 1916, and the second 1917 to the Armistice, including a chapter on operations in Siberia and Murmansk involving the 25th Battalion which did not get home until September 1919.