Publisher's Synopsis
Based on a true story..... Going Back To Frezenberg tells the story of a small group of soldiers and their part in one of the largest and costliest battles of World War 1. One of those soldiers was John Burns, from the Scottish Border village of Innerleithen. When he paraded down the High Street with the St Ronan's Silver Band in the summer of 1914, he did not know he would become a soldier. By July 1917, his journey through France and Belgium had brought him to the ruins of Frezenberg, a small village near Ypres where German strongpoints were blocking the way to Passchendaele. For Corporal McGinn and his Lewis gun section, for Colonel Hannay the commanding officer and Major Mitchell his second in command, for all the men of 13th Battalion Royal Scots, nothing would be the same after Frezenberg. Their story is extraordinary. It is a personal story, a human story. It is the story of Passchendaele and its consequences, not just for the people who fought there, but for the communities they came from.
