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The footballer of Loos : a story of the 1st Battalion London Irish Rifles in the First World War

Harris, Ed, 1951-2009
Books, Manuscripts
As the Battle of Loos began, a British Tommy kicked a football ahead of the charge towards the German trenches. This book traces the life of the so-called Footballer of Loos. Ed Harris reveals what it was like to take part in the battle, and also revises the conventional view that Loos was a failure for the Allies.
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