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On the Front Line: True World War I Stories
Jon E. Lewis
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Description for On the Front Line: True World War I Stories
Paperback. In the words of Malcolm Brown 'a rediscovered classic'. Sixty first-hand accounts of what life was really like in the Great War. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJF; BTM; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 324.
In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'.
It was the very first collection to reveal the many dimensions of the war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier and offers heart-stopping renditions of the very first gas attack; aerial dogfights above the trenches; the moment of going over the top.
Told chronologically, from the first ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849010672
SKU
9781849010672
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Ref
99-2
About Jon E. Lewis
JON E. LEWIS is an historian and author of numerous bestselling books on history and military history, including Voices from D-Day, Voices from the Holocaust, The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War and A Brief History of the First World War. He holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in history and his work has appeared in New Statesman, the Independent, Time ... Read more
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