Facebook X YouTube Instagram TikTok NetGalley
Google Books previews are unavailable because you have chosen to turn off third party cookies for enhanced content. Visit our cookies page to review your cookie settings.

Hull Pals (Hardback)

Military WWI > Battles & Campaigns > Arras WWI > Pals Battalions World History > UK & Ireland > England > Yorkshire & Humberside

By David Bilton
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
Series: Pals
Pages: 451
ISBN: 9781783461851
Published: 31st March 2014

in_stock

£30.00


You'll be £30.00 closer to your next £10.00 credit when you purchase Hull Pals. What's this?
+£4.99 UK Delivery or free UK delivery if order is over £40
(click here for international delivery rates)

Order within the next 2 hours, 39 minutes to get your order processed the next working day!

Need a currency converter? Check XE.com for live rates

Other formats available - Buy the Hardback and get the eBook for free! Price
Hull Pals ePub (141.9 MB) Add to Basket £6.99


In response to Kitchener's famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised entire battalions for the service on the Western Front. Hull folk are reticent people and the Hull Pals were no exception. This book tells their inspiring story of sacrifice and gallantry under appaling conditions. Hull Pals contains a great number of hitherto unpublished eye-witnessed accounts and photographs.

As featured on BBC Radio Humberside and in The Yorkshire Post.

Featured in 'further reading' part of Going Large in the Great War article

Wargames Illustrated, April 2018

David Bilton has produced a book which has been well researched and skillfully written. The full poignancy of the Pals Battalion story comes into its own in the main chapters of the book, and David's descriptions are very sobering. This is a book worthy of being read from cover to cover as it tells of sacrifice and gallantry under appalling conditions. The 27 appendices provide extensive details concerning gallantry awards, deaths of officers and other ranks, Battalion Badges, Memorial and standards et al.

East Yorkshire FHS

This book is an absolute must read if you are interested in the role of the Hull Pals...it is packed full of facts, eyewitness testimonies and will be a good reference source for historians. If you read one book to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the war then this is it.

Jim Mitchell, Hull Daily Mail.

All of the major battles and events from across the four years and their effect on everyday life are examined in the book, including air raids, rationing, recruitment, censorship and the changes in employment habit. The book also makes extensive use of personal accounts and photographs, as well as newspapers and magazine articles, all of which help to make an informative and atmospheric title.

Get Reading
 David Bilton

About David Bilton

David Bilton is a retired teacher who spends his time looking after his family, working as a university lecturer and researching the Great War; an interest ignited by his paternal grandfather’s refusal to talk about his experiences at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. He is a prolific author whose books includes works on the British and German Army, the Home Front and Great War badges; this is volume three of the badges of the British Army in the Great War. Since he started writing he has contributed to television and radio programmes, appeared on Country File and Look North, and given talks on his work.

More titles by David Bilton

Other titles in the series...

Other titles in Pen & Sword Military...