It was the war to end all wars and became one of the bloodiest and
cruellest conflicts in history.
Into the hands of author Mark Scott came a poignant survivor of those
nightmare years - a notebook carried through the trenches by his great
grandfather, Jimmy Scott, nestled in the pocket of his uniform. In it
was a list of names, written with the tiny pencil still attached to the
fragile cover. With this family heirloom in his hand, the author vowed
to discover the stories of these men who gave their all in the Great
War. Along the way he unravelled a remarkable connection to the story of
the Unknown Warrior, unearthing valuable new documents that detailed for
the first time the full untold story of this event - and what happened
to the bodies of those not selected for burial in Westminster Abbey in
1920 - those who, like thousands of others, are "Known Unto God."
Reading at times like a detective story, this is the moving, often
heart-breaking, account of the men whose names Jimmy Scott carefully
pencilled into his little notebook.