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The Somme
The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs
Langbeschreibung
With 150 never-before-published images of the campaign, taken by the men who fought, and new and rarely-read accounts of the fighting. The third in Van Emden's trilogy of books, following on from "Tommy's War" and "Gallipoli".
Richard van Emden interviewed 270 veterans of the Great War, has written extensively about the soldiers' lives, and has worked on many television documentaries, always concentrating on the human aspects of war, its challenge and its cost to the millions of men involved. Richard van Emden's books have sold over 660,000 copies and have appeared in The Times' bestseller chart on a number of occasions.He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the Great War, including the award-winning Roses of No Man's Land, Britain's Boy Soldiers, A Poem for Harry, War Horse: the Real Story, Teenage Tommies with Fergal Keane and most recently, Hidden Histories: WW1's Forgotten Photographs. He lives in London.
ISBN-13:
9781473885172
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
06.06.2016
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Richard Van Emden
Gewicht:
1086 g
Format:
233x172x30 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch