The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
of Peter Englund, Peter Graves (Translator)
Series: Stridens skönhet och sorg
Description
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, but what it was like to live throughThere 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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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 488 pages
- Publisher Profile Books
- Publication Date October 27th 2011
- First Publication 10/04/08
- Language English
- ISBN 9781846683428
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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