Crompton B.
An interesting narrative of the so-called PAL companies that allowed friends to enlist and serve together in the British Army during World War One. Was especially taken with the painting of the patriotic frenzy in Edinburgh in the early stages of the conflict and how the grinding down of that fervor took place on the Western Front as seen through the eyes of the footballers who went off to fight. If I have any other comment, it is that after July 1, 1916 and The Somme, lose contact with the Hearts' members for some time and a bit long on overall Allied strategy and tactics before we rejoin them in the latter stages of the war and on into an interesting and entertaining epilog.