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Cambridge in the Great War (Paperback)
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Cambridge in the Great War (Paperback)
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Cambridge is one of the most famous universities in the world and
its library is one of only five copyright libraries in the UK. At
the start of the twentieth century it was a privileged life for
some, but many in Cambridge knew that war was becoming truly
inevitable. What the proverbial 'gown' feared communicated itself
to the surrounding 'town'. Terrible rumours were rife, that the
Germans would burn the university library and raise King's College
chapel to the ground, before firing shells along the tranquil
'Backs' of the River Cam until the weeping willows were just
blackened stumps. Frightened but determined, age-old 'town and
gown' rivalries were put aside as the city united against the
common enemy. This book tells Cambridge's fascinating story in the
grim years of the Great War. Thousands of university students,
graduates and lecturers alike enlisted, along with the patriotic
townsfolk. The First Eastern General Military Hospital was
subsequently established in Trinity College and treated more than
80,000 casualties from the Western Front.Though the university had
been the longtime hub of life and employment in the town, many
people suffered great losses and were parted from loved ones,
decimating traditional breadwinners and livelihoods, from the
rationing of food, drink and fuel, to hundreds of restrictions
imposed by DORA. As a result, feelings ran high and eventually led
to riots beneath the raiding zeppelins and ever-present threat of
death. The poet, Rupert Brooke, a graduate of King's College, died
on his way to the Dardanelles in 1915, but his most famous poem The
Soldier became a preemptive memorial and the epitaph of millions.
If I should die Think only this of me That there's some corner of a
foreign field That is forever England.
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