Pen and Sword Books: Veterans

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Veterans (ePub)

Military WWI

By Richard van Emden
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
File Size: 25.8 MB (.epub)
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781848845619
Published: 12th August 1998

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Using the veterans' own words and photographs, the book brings to life a mixture of their excitement of embarkation for France, their unbound optimism and courage, the agony of the trenches, and numbing fear of going over the top. The fight for survival, the long ordeal of those who were wounded and the ever present grief caused by appalling loss and waste of life make for compelling reading. The veterans give us first hand accounts of stark honesty, as they describe in many cases more freely than ever before about experiences which have lived with them for over 80 years.

In summary, any one with the slightest interest in the Great War will, I am sure thoroughly enjoy reading this publication – it’s a must for your library!
Roll of Honour, Michael D. Booker

Veterans is a superb book that covers life of the Western Front and the Home Front during WW1 it tackles the personal issues of joining up all the way to fighting and dealing with death.
One memoir recounts a church parade where it became apparent the major losses sustained during the last battle with the colonel seen sobbing.
The only problem I had finished this book in a few days I just could not put this book down. Researched in detail a true book that reveals life for individuals during WW1.

Micah Parsons

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About Richard van Emden

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.

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