The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan
'One of the best plays ever written about the First World War'
GUARDIAN
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 life. Not many return to Accrington alive or intact. Whelan's play traces these men's history through individual stories, but his special interest lies in the lives of the women left behind, battling with their own problems, deprived of their relationships with husbands and lovers, undertaking traditionally male roles, and kept in doubt by the misinformation of wartime propaganda. Their moving stories interweave in scenes that are often comic, but which reach a devastating climax as the news of the disastrous battle finally reaches them. Commentary and notes by John Davey.
Peter Whelan, Associate Professor in Law, School of Law, University of Leeds Dr Peter Whelan is an Associate Professor in Law at the School of Law, University of Leeds, where he is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies. He has degrees in law from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD in Law from St John's College, University of Cambridge. A qualified US
Attorney-at-Law, Peter is an expert in competition law and sits on the Editorial Boards of World Competition and the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement. Peter has published widely in specialist competition law journals, as well as in generalist law journals (including Oxford Journal of Legal Studies,
Cambridge Law Journal and Modern Law Review). He has provided oral evidence on cartel criminalization to the New Zealand Parliament and was recently appointed as an International Expert by the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority to advise it on the desirability of introducing criminal cartel
sanctions in Finland. Peter is also the Managing Editor of Oxford Competition Law.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780573110092 |
| ISBN 10 | 0573110093 |
| Title | The Accrington Pals |
| Author | Peter Whelan |
| Series | Acting Edition S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Samuel French Ltd |
| Year published | 1984-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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