A captivating and poignant tale, this is the little-known story of a group of Scottish athletes and their fans who went to war together—and what happened to the few who made it home. The saga of McCrae’s Battalion brings much-needed human scale to World War I and explains why a group of young men from a small country with almost no direct connection to the conflict would end up sacrificing their careers, their homes, their health, and in many cases their lives to an abstract cause.

"It's always been popular to compare sports to war. In A Bigger Field Awaits Us, the always clever Andrew Beaujon illustrates why that metaphor is mostly flawed but sometimes perfect."—Chuck Klosterman, author of But What If We're Wrong?

"A wonderful, unexpected book."—World War One Illustrated
 

Andrew Beaujon is a senior editor at Washingtonian magazine in Washington, DC. He reported on the media industry and ran a daily blog, MediaWire, for the Poynter Institute. Beaujon also has worked as a music critic for Spin, a recipe editor for Martha Stewart Living, and as the managing editor of Washington City Paper, and is the author of Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock. He lives near Washington, DC.