A War in Words - Couverture souple

Palmer, Svetlana; Wallis, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0743469062 ISBN 13 : 9780743469067

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2004

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. Powerful individual stories are interwoven to form an extraordinary narrative that follows the chronology of the war, in words written on the battlefield and on leave, under occupation and under siege. Taking us from the killing fields of the Western Front to the unforgiving waters of the North Sea, it is a remarkable new insight into the British at war, and a major addition to First World War literature.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743469062
• ISBN 13: 9780743469067
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400