Field of Bones Format:Paperback\, 268pp He rose rapidly through the

He rose rapidly through the company ranks

sport and social history to create a humorous and informative guide to some of the more bizarre byways of the English language

Almost eighty years on from the original publication

The long history of the island is legible in the architecture of the past

Field of Bones Format:Paperback\, 268pp He rose rapidly through theField of Bones: An Irish Division at Gallipoliby Phillip Orr \n \nDuring August and September 1915 almost three thousand young volunteer Irish soldiers died on the killing fields of Gallipoli on the Turkish Aegean. A division of Kitchener's Army, at Suvla Bay they fell to gunshot wounds and shellfire, while thirst, sunstroke and dysentery reduced their chances of survival. Hundreds were burned alive in raging bush fires. \n \nIn post war Ireland