Mark Cronin: Blackpool to the Front: A Cork Suburb and Ireland's Great War 1914-1918 [2014] paperback Condition:New There's even a gorgeous purple

There's even a gorgeous purple baby to celebrate

Roman high society hums with gossip about the suspicious suicide of a prominent Roman senator and the body of a Vestal Virgin is discovered in the river Tiber

From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall

Heartstopping

Mark Cronin: Blackpool to the Front: A Cork Suburb and Ireland's Great War 1914-1918 [2014] paperback Condition:New There's even a gorgeous purple`Blackpool to the Front!' was a rallying cry first heard at the Battle of Etreux in August 1914 when the Royal Munster Fusiliers halted an entire German Army Corps. The experience of the hundreds who enlisted from the industrial Cork suburb of Blackpool mirrors the experience of the 200,000 Irishmen who joined up. At least sixty nine Blackpool men made the ultimate sacrifice: factory workers, sons, husbands and fathers. Some enlisted to escape