A Bigger Field Awaits Us: The Scottish Football Team That Fought the Great War
May 2018 · Chicago Review Press
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A captivating and poignant tale, this is the little-known story of a group of Scottish athletes and their fans who went to war together—and what happened to the few who made it home. The saga of McCrae's Battalion brings much-needed human scale to World War I and explains why a group of young men from a small country with almost no direct connection to the conflict would end up sacrificing their careers, their homes, their health, and in many cases their lives to an abstract cause.
A captivating and poignant tale, this is the little-known story of a group of Scottish athletes and their fans who went to war together—and what happened to the few who made it home. The saga of McCrae's Battalion brings much-needed human scale to World War I and explains why a group of young men...
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Andrew Beaujon is a senior editor at Washingtonian magazine in Washington, DC. He reported on the media industry and ran a daily blog, MediaWire, for the Poynter Institute. Beaujon also has worked as a music critic for Spin, a recipe editor for Martha Stewart Living, and as the managing editor of Washington City Paper, and is the author of Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock. He lives near Washington, DC.
Andrew Beaujon is a senior editor at Washingtonian magazine in Washington, DC. He reported on the media industry and ran a daily blog, MediaWire, for the Poynter Institute. Beaujon also has worked as a music critic for Spin, a recipe editor for Martha Stewart Living, and as the managing editor of...
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