ab 12 • Audiobook • 01:13:59 • Oktober 2026

You have read the casualty figures for the Somme, and they never told you who those men were. You want to know what it felt like to stand on the firestep at dawn beside friends you grew up with. This unabridged narrative history follows one real British Pals battalion, men who queued at the same recruiting office and trained, joked and waited together. Character-led chapters of twenty to thirty minutes take you from the town square to the trench lines of the Western Front, through mud, rats, night raids and letters home, and finally over the top on the first day of the Somme. A small recurring cast keeps every name clear, the geography is written into the narration so you always know where you stand, and a companion PDF of maps and people sits ready whenever you want it. By the last chapter, the Great War stops being a statistic and becomes a street of faces you will remember. Press play and fall in with the Pals.