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Clive Aslet is an award-winning journalist and former Editor of Country Life who has spent his career observing Britain and its ways. An authority on British life, he has written several books on the subject - including The Last Country Houses, Landmarks of Britain, and Villages of Britain.
With this book Aslet makes an important contribution to social history... the stories are not tidy portraits of heroism but achingly real portraits of wartime loss experienced by a changing rural community * Daily Express * An engaging, absorbing work -- Chris Baker * The Long, Long Trail/Great War Forum * A moving look at the harrowing stories behind a century of names inscribed on the war memorial of a small and sleepy Devon village * Sunday Times * [A] fascinating history * Daily Telegraph * A fascinating mix of history and sociology that leaves one with a profound sense of the vagaries and cruelties of fate, particularly during times of war * Country Life * A touching tribute to ordinary lives . . . brutally cut off long before their allotted time * Sunday Telegraph *
