A War in Words - Couverture souple

Palmer, Svetlana; Wallis, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0743248317 ISBN 13 : 9780743248310

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

A War in Words

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'A poignant picture of the inner lives of ordinary people who found themselves thrown into extraordinary circumstances in time of conflict' SOLDIER
'Compelling new first-hand accounts, poignant diaries and letters written amid the wretched battlefields of the Somme, Verdun and Gallipoli . . . that paint vivid images of valour, despair and sacrifice' DAILY MAIL WEEKEND MAGAZINE
"A wonderful anthology with an extraordinary range: civilians, soldiers, men, women. Refreshingly, they are drawn from all backgrounds and countries; it is good to hear the voice of the African fighting man and those from the war in the East and the Balkans. The range of emotions and experiences matches the compass of geography and the editing is excellent: I was amazed to hear how one of the Sarajevo assassins ended his life as minister for forests under Tito. On the grounds of its depth and variety, quite the best war anthology I've read."
LAWRENCE JAMES
'A wonderfully rich repository of witness and experience throughout . . . a superb book'
Helen Dunmore
"Deeply moving . . . A haunting and mesmeric work full of courage, poignancy, pain and love."
MAX ARTHUR, author of Forgotten Voices of the Great War
'A work of rare quality' RUSI Journal
'Superb . . . What Wilfred Owen called the pity of war is poignantly distilled in these pages' Simon Shaw, MAIL ON SUNDAY

Présentation de l'éditeur

Departing radically from traditional histories, A WAR IN WORDS tells the story of the First World War on a compelling, human scale through the letters and diaries of its participants -- whether combatants, eyewitnesses or victims. This was a young person's war and these people record their experiences with all the immediacy and passion of youth. They talk to us directly from within the war itself and from all sides of the conflict -- from the testimony of a Serbian teenager, one of Franz Ferdinand's assassins, to the final entry from a French soldier as he revisits a battlefield in 1919, realising he and the rest of the world have changed irrevocably.
Most of these letters and diaries have never been published in English before. They were uncovered during extensive research across twenty-eight countries for the major ten-part series THE FIRST WORLD WAR, broadcast on Channel 4 in autumn 2003. The series will introduce many of the characters who appear in this book and will, like the book, recount the complex history of the war though the lives of the individuals caught up in it.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743248317
• ISBN 13: 9780743248310
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352