Tommy''s Ark : Soldiers and their Animals in the Great War

Name: Tommy''s Ark
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781408810071
Price: 3050 KES
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ISBN: 9781408810071

by Richard van Emden

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1408810077

ISBN-13 9781408810071

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 6th, 2011

Print length 352 Pages

Weight 314 grams

Dimensions 19.80 x 14.80 x 3.10 cms

Product Classification: Europe c 1910 to c 1919 European history First World War Military institutions Military life & institutions European history First World War Domestic animals & pets Domestic animals and pets

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A rich treasure chest of journals, letters and stories about the men and their animals on the Western Front, by the bestselling author of The Last Fighting Tommy and The Soldier's War.

For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored and lonely and missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their affection, many found it in the animal kingdom. Tommy''s Ark looks at the war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, and examines their relationship with a strange and unexpected range of animal life, from horses, dogs and cats to monkeys and birds - even in one case a golden eagle.

Animals became mascots - some Welsh battalions had goats as mascots, some of the Scots had donkeys. And then there were the animals and insects that excited curiosity amongst men drawn into the army from the industrial heartlands of Britain, men who had little knowledge of, let alone daily contact with, wildlife. Civilians turned soldiers observed the natural world around them, from the smallest woodlouse to voles, mice and larger animals such as deer and rabbit.

Richard van Emden explores his subject far more radically than previous attempts, revealing how, for example, a lemur was taken on combat missions in the air, a lion was allowed to pad down the front line trenches and how a monkey lost its leg during the fighting at Delville Wood on the Somme.

Illustrated with more than sixty previously unseen or rarely published photographs, drawn mainly from the author''s own extraordinary collection.

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