Goodbye Piccadilly: From Home Front to Western Front

World War I changed the world forever. And while London was far from the mud and death of the front, it was far from immune. The people of the city served overseas and at home, while the city itself adjusted to absences, death, shortages, and rapidly changing conditions. Goodbye Piccadilly tells that story of transformation, drawing on historical documents, period photographs, and the personal testimonies of the men and women who saw their lives—and their ways of life—upended, never to be returned to what they were before the guns of August began to fire.