Malcolm Brown

The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An unrivalled and readable introduction to the years of Trench Warfare' TESThe First World War was won and lost on the Western Front. Covering the whole war, from the guns of August 1914 to the sudden silence of the November 1918 Armistice, the IWM Book of the Western Front reveals what life was really like for the men and women involved. With first-hand accounts of off-duty entertainments, trench fatalism, and going over the top, this is an extremely important contribution to the continuing debate on the First World War. Malcolm Brown has updated this edition, introducing new evidence on sex and homosexuality, executions, the treatment or mistreatment of prisoners and shell shock.'A blockbuster . . . as near as anyone is likely to get to the authentic life of the trenches' Yorkshire Post

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447264323
• Artikelnr.: 40020756

Autorenporträt

Malcolm Brown has been a television documentary-maker and is the author of many books on military history, including Tommy Goes to War, the IWM Book of the Somme, and the IWM Book of 1918. He is a freelance historian at the Imperial War Museum.