Eight brothers all enlisted - the youngest seeing active service only from October 1918. This is the story of their war, in the Middle East, Africa, Gallipoli, Salonika and of course the Western Front, told through their letters home. It is the story of a world war. And it is a tragedy -only three came home alive - one invalided out of the war in 1916, one nearly dieing of Spanish Flu as he is discharged - and the five brothers who made the ultimate sacrifice. Even the wives ,girlfriends and sisters were affected, by bombing, by war work, by shortages, and by sorrow. If you really want to discover the impact of WW1 then this is the book to do it.