Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1846683432
ISBN-13
9781846683435
Edition
Main
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Imprint
Profile Books Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 6th, 2012
Print length
576 Pages
Weight
400 grams
Dimensions
20.00 x 13.00 x 3.70 cms
Product Classification:
First World War
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Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, this title explores the everyday aspects of war: not only the tragedy and horror, but also the absurdity, monotony and even beauty.
There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, he explores the everyday aspects of war: not only the tragedy and horror, but also the absurdity, monotony and even beauty. Two of these twenty will perish, two will become prisoners of war, two will become celebrated heroes and two others end up as physical wrecks. One of them goes mad, another will never hear a shot fired.Following soldiers and sailors, nurses and government workers, from Britain, Russia, Germany, Australia and South America - and in theatres of war often neglected by major histories on the period - Englund reconstructs their feelings, impressions, experiences and moods. This is a piece of anti-history: it brings this epoch-making event back to its smallest component, the individual.
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