The Soldier's War: The Great War Through Veterans' Eyes
- ISBN-10
- 0747598738
- ISBN-13
- 9780747598732
- Category
- Soldiers
- Pages
- 394
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Press
- Author
- Richard van Emden
Description
The Great War ended more than ninety years ago yet still haunts and fascinates us today. In The Soldier's War, Richard van Emden traces a history of the fighting month by month and year by year, using original diaries, letters and previously unseen photographs taken by the soldiers themselves. We follow the British Tommy not only in devastating battles and trench warfare, but also in his quieter moments away from the front line, contemplating the natural world around him. This history of the war as seen from the trenches is shockingly intimate, sometimes heartbreaking, often wryly amusing, but always compelling.
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