Song, dance and laughter under fire by those who performed for 'the boys' This special Leonaur edition, released to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes three interesting accounts of the activities of the brave performers in the concert parties who entertained 'the boys over there.' Their job was to keep spirits and morale high. Morale by its very nature is hard to instil and easy to lose, that's why the role of the concert parties-dauntless entertainers who travelled close the front line and doggedly and cheerfully performed for the troops, often as shells exploded around them-was recognised as vital for the allied war effort during the First World War. Actress Lena Ashwell, who is acknowledged as responsible for the creation of the entertainment for troops movement, gives us Modern Troubadours an indispensible history and recollection of the formation and activities of British entertainers at the front in all the theatres of the Great War. In...

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