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Britain´s Last Tommies: Final Memories from Soldiers of the 1914-18 War in Their Own Words
Richard Van Emden
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Description for Britain´s Last Tommies: Final Memories from Soldiers of the 1914-18 War in Their Own Words
Paperback. A wonderful farewell to the generation that fought at the battles of the Somme, Ypres, Passchendaele, Arras and Loos. Num Pages: 340 pages, 32 plate section, including 8 pages of colour, 70 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; BGHA; BJ; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
On the centenary of the Great War, there are now no longer any veterans alive of the six million men who served on the Western Front. Although this means that the Great War as a living history is to all intents and purposes over, the twenty years Richard van Emden spent interviewing and carefully recording the memories of over 270 veterans, makes this extraordinary collection of stories even more poignant. As well as stories told by the veterans themselves, Richard has also included his own memories of these remarkable men: the remarkable, the sad, the funny, the moving. The ... Read more
On the centenary of the Great War, there are now no longer any veterans alive of the six million men who served on the Western Front. Although this means that the Great War as a living history is to all intents and purposes over, the twenty years Richard van Emden spent interviewing and carefully recording the memories of over 270 veterans, makes this extraordinary collection of stories even more poignant. As well as stories told by the veterans themselves, Richard has also included his own memories of these remarkable men: the remarkable, the sad, the funny, the moving. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473860896
SKU
V9781473860896
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Ref
99-2
About Richard Van Emden
Richard van Emden is widely regarded as one of Britain's foremost oral historians of the First World War. His works include the ground-breaking Boy Soldiers (to accompany Channel 4 documentary 'Britain's Boy Soldiers), Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War, Prisoners of the Kaiser, The Trench (accompanying the BBC2 series, All Quiet on the Home Front, Boy Soldiers, ... Read more
Reviews for Britain´s Last Tommies: Final Memories from Soldiers of the 1914-18 War in Their Own Words
Richard Van Emden spent 20 years interviewing over 270 First World War veterans. As well as their memories of the war, he includes his own reflection from getting to know these men - the sad, the funny and the poignant.
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