On flows the Tay: Perth and the First World War

This excerpt is taken from the foreword by Alan Hamilton, the staff correspondent of The Times and author.Even at this distance, the First World War is imprinted on our consciousness as a watershed of the end of the long sunlit Victorian afternoon of British imperial power, the first medieval war fought with weapons of mass destruction, the slaughter of an entire generation at the hands of generals better acquainted with horses than with men.