The Bradford Pals: A history of the 16th. & 18th. Battalions.The west Yorkshire Regiment. 1914 to 1918

"No one could write a book about the First World War unless he had been in it, because he could not possible imagine what it was like"

So, I did not try to write a book about the First World War. I merely recorded the things that those old soldiers told me and what they wrote in their reports and in their letters to loved ones.

This is their story, not mine.