A War in Words - Brossura

Palmer, Svetlana; Wallis, Sarah

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743248317 ISBN 13: 9780743248310

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2003

Riassunto

This is a portrait of World War I through the letters and diaries of its participants, recently uncovered during extensive research across 28 countries for the 10-part Channel 4 series, "The First World War", showing during autumn 2003. Combatants, eyewitnesses and victims talk directly to us from within the war itself and from all sides of the conflict. Their testimony - from that of one of Franz Ferdinand's assassins, to the final entry from a French soldier as he revisits the battlefield in 1919 - recounts the complex history of a war whose repercussions changed the world irrevocably.

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Recensione

'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

Product Description

Physical description; xviii, 381 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subjects; Diaries. First World War (1914-1918). Compilations.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0743248317
• ISBN 13: 9780743248310
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simone Casetta; 0039 275422215; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italia