When the Whistle Blows : The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War

This book tells the full story of the 17th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, the 'Footballers' Battalion'.

Based on extensive original research, Andrew Riddoch and John Kemp draw on many previously unpublished letters, personal accounts and photographs to paint a vivid portrait of this legendary British Army battalion that fought in three of the firecest battles of the Great War - the Somme, Arrar and Cambrai.