Heritage Talk: Sherwood Boys, Biography of a Battalion - Mansfield Library

Accompanying the forthcoming release of Sherwood Boys: Biography of a Battalion, Michael Somerville’s talk provides a unique view on the British army through the lens of a single battalion. Hear the story of how the 2/5th Sherwood Foresters, a Territorial battalion, developed during the Second World War from a group of untrained young men from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire into a hardened unit of veterans from every corner of Britain, capable of facing, and beating, the might of the Wehrmacht.