”Had it not been for the rum ration...” - Booze in the Great War. Part 1.
This is the first episode in a two-parter that looks at how alcohol was used and abused during the Great War. I this first episode we look at how booze was managed on the home front and how it was used on the front lines.
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Selected Bibliography (if you buy anything using these links, a small kickback helps to fund this podcast - go on, treat yourself!)
Bibliography
Forgotten voices of the great war - Max Arthur, Buy the book
Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot: Myth, Life and politics. – Dr Adrian Smith Buy the Book
Passchendaele Requiem for doomed youth – Paul Ham. Buy the Book
Fighter Heroes Of WW1 - Joshua Levine. Buy the book
Robert Graves – From Great War poet to Good-bye to all that (1895-1929) – Jean Moorcraft Wilson. Buy the book
No empty chairs - Ian Mackersey Buy the book
National Archives – Pubs vs the First World War. Link
Western Front Association – Alcohol in the trenches. Link
Vive le Pinard lyrics - Link
Legion Magazine – Rum in the trenches. Link
Fighting on borrowed wings: The combat experience of Americans serving with French and British units during the First World War. Kylle Nelleson. Link
https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1083&context=cmh on remarkable, so read it
Touring behind the lines: British soldiers in French towns and cities during the Great War - KRISTA COWMAN - Urban History, Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2014). Link
National Army Museum - Army Rum Jar exhibit. Link
Kings' regulations and orders for the army 1912, with amendments for 1914. Link
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