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Featuring 250 previously unknown photographs, this is the extraordinary true story of a young doctor whose photos left behind an astonishing firsthand account of life at the front of World War I. As a twenty-five-year-old medical officer and one of the first doctors to win the Military Cross, Fred Davidson took countless photographs while he served in the trenches from 1914-1915. Though he took them illegally, more than 250 of the photographs shot by Davidson and his fellow officers survived and are now shared for the first time in this harrowing, eye-catching, and poignant narrative of the Great War. In A Doctor in the Great War, author Andrew Davidsonthe grandson of Freddepicts the everyday lives of soldiers, both on and off duty from the parade ground at Glasgows Maryhill to the brothels of Armentieres, from the band of brothers who dubbed themselves Old Contemptibles to the original folding Kodak and Ansco cameras they used.