Books by Tony Cole

The outbreak of WW1 saw the Royal Dublin Fusiliers mobilized and shipped to secure the oil fields in the middle East. Little did they know they would be used to advance up the Biblical river Euphrates to to be slaughtered by the waiting Turks.

This book traces the development of collective welfare provision from the Poor Laws onward, explaining the influences of different social reformers and thinkers. Comparisons are made between the UK, the USA and Canada.