Tommy's war : the Western Front in soldiers' words and photographs / Richard van Emden.
Tommy's war : the Western Front in soldiers' words and photographs / Richard van Emden.
By
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Van Emden, Richard.
Publication Date
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2014
Publication Information
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London : Bloomsbury,
Physical Description
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375 p. : ill.
Subject Term
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Trench warfare.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
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Conventional histories of the Great War have tended to focus on the terrible attritional battles of Ypres, of Arras and of the Somme. What they do not tell us is what life was like for the ordinary soldier, what mattered to him, and how he survived, both physically and mentally. Now for the first time, one of Britain's leading military historians, Richard van Emden tells the story of the Great War exclusively through the words and images of soldiers on the ground. In 'Tommy's War', he gathers some of the very best first-hand material written about the War, some of it published at the time and forgotten, some of it previously unpublished, but all of it wonderfully descriptive and immediate, and often wickedly funny.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781408844366
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 940.4144 V28 | Checked In |