Voices from the Great War - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0531098117 ISBN 13 : 9780531098110

Editeur : Franklin Watts, 1984

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A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“This stupendous and kaleidoscopic book takes the lid off the Great War of 1914-18 and reveals... the sight, sound and smell of Armageddon.” -- London Magazine

“This valuable and entertaining anthology... does not set out to demythologize the war... but it goes a long way towards decosmeticizing it, showing the savage realities in which the myth had its roots.” -- Observer

“The fluctuating moods, dreams, boasts and moments of revulsion and despair... the effect is shattering.” -- Sunday Telegraph

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Bringing together Sigmund Freud, Osip Mandelstam, Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain - voices famous and unknown - Peter Vansittart takes us through the course of the Great War, juxtaposing letters from the trenches with music-hall songs, and the words of poets and politicians. Linking the public and the personal, the history with the myth, his rich and unorthodox anthology forms a moving image of everything that went into the War, and culminated in its 'scalding waste of spirit'.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Franklin Watts
• Date d'édition: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0531098117
• ISBN 13: 9780531098110
• Reliure: Relié