Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War #sacredservice From the nervous anxiety of

From the nervous anxiety of the men on the front line counting down the last few

he thought

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This 68-page souvenir book gives a full overview of the National World War I Museum and Memorial's creation

It’s the story of eating bully beef and army ‘dog biscuits’ under fire and it’s the story of the enjoyment of food parcels from home or eating egg and chips in a café on a rare off-duty evening

Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War #sacredservice From the nervous anxiety ofDescription by Xu Guoqi Hardcover During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied war effort. These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came voluntarily and worked in Europe longer than