About the Book: The Accrington Pals
`One of the best plays ever written about the First World War GUARDIAN `To say
that it leaves you emotionally shattered feels like an insult to those bygone
souls and the horrors the faced, but quietly shattering it is, all the same
DAILY TELEGRAPH A battalion of 1, 000 young men raised in 1914 from volunteers
in the Accrington area of East Lancashire go to war. They are destined to see
their first real action on 1st July 1916 on the first day of the Battle of the
Somme, still regarded as the greatest British military disaster with huge loss
of