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A Bigger Field Awaits Us: The Scottish Football Team That Fought the Great War Journalism In a brief encounter onDescription by Andrew Beaujon Hardcover Each November, about a hundred people with paper poppies pinned to their coats gather around a memorial in Edinburgh. They're there to commemorate the more than a dozen members of the local football team, Heart of Midlothianalmost every member of its starting lineup and many of its backup playerswho went to war. When they enlisted in November 1914, the Edinburgh Evening News ran pages of splendid photos of the