The Beauty And The Sorrow
An intimate history of the First World War
(Sprache: Englisch)
Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, but what it was like to live through
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Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses showing not just what the First World War was, but what it was like to live through
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There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, he explores the everyday aspects of war: not only the tragedy and horror, but also the absurdity, monotony and even beauty. Two of these twenty will perish, two will become prisoners of war, two will become celebrated heroes and two others end up as physical wrecks. One of them goes mad, another will never hear a shot fired.Following soldiers and sailors, nurses and government workers, from Britain, Russia, Germany, Australia and South America - and in theatres of war often neglected by major histories on the period - Englund reconstructs their feelings, impressions, experiences and moods. This is a piece of anti-history: it brings this epoch-making event back to its smallest component, the individual.
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Englund
Peter Englund is an award-winning, bestselling Swedish historian. Having been a professor at Uppsala University, in 2008 he was appointed the new Permanent Secretary of Swedish Academy, the body that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. His breakthrough book on the Battle of Poltava was published to universal critical acclaim and sold over 250,000 copies in Sweden alone.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Englund
- 2012, 576 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 13,1 x 19,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 1846683432
- ISBN-13: 9781846683435
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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"'Peter Englund is one of the finest writers of our time on the tactics, the killing and the psychology of war. In The Beauty and the Sorrow he superbly and humanely brings to life all the tragedy, chaos, death and gunsmoke of battle' (Simon Sebag Montefiore) 'A wonderfully wide and rich mosaic of personal experience from the First World War' (Antony Beevor) 'A haunting mosaic of the experiences of war. The layers of voices build to create a richly complex and rarely heard account of the First World War that lingers in the memory long after the final page. Immensely powerful.' (Juliet Gardiner, author of 'The Blitz')"
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Peter Englund is one of the finest writers of our time on the tactics, the killing and the psychology of war. In The Beauty and the Sorrow he superbly and humanely brings to life all the tragedy, chaos, death and gunsmoke of battle Simon Sebag Montefiore
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