Includes maps of: Social Compostion of Municipal Wards in Liverpool, 1914; Environs of Liverpool; Liverpool Scottish Attack at Hooge, 16 June 1915; Battle of the Somme; King's (Liverpool) Regiment, 3rd Battle of Ypres, 1917; German Attack at Epehy, 30 November 1917; Festubert-Givenchy Sector, 8 April 198; Final Advance, October-November 1918.

Pre-war Liverpool and the Territorial Force -- 'Cuff and collar battalions': social change and its impact on the unit -- 'Common ties at home and strong county pride': the persistence and importance of county uniformity -- Links with home: communication between the home front and the fighting front during the Great War -- Command and consent in the trenches -- Discipline, punishment and the Territorial ethos -- The experience of active service on the Western Front -- The aftermath of war.