Tommy's Ark
Soldiers and their Animals in the Great War
(Sprache: Englisch)
A rich treasure chest of journals, letters and stories about the men and their animals on the Western Front, by the bestselling author of The Last Fighting Tommy and The Soldier's War....
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A rich treasure chest of journals, letters and stories about the men and their animals on the Western Front, by the bestselling author of The Last Fighting Tommy and The Soldier's War.A rich treasure chest of journals, letters and stories about the men and their animals on the Western Front, by the bestselling author of The Last Fighting Tommy and The Soldier's War.
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For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored and lonely and missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their affection, many found it in the animal kingdom. Tommy's Ark looks at the war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, and examines their relationship with a strange and unexpected range of animal life, from horses, dogs and cats to monkeys and birds - even in one case a golden eagle.Animals became mascots - some Welsh battalions had goats as mascots, some of the Scots had donkeys. And then there were the animals and insects that excited curiosity amongst men drawn into the army from the industrial heartlands of Britain, men who had little knowledge of, let alone daily contact with, wildlife. Civilians turned soldiers observed the natural world around them, from the smallest woodlouse to voles, mice and larger animals such as deer and rabbit.Richard van Emden explores his subject far more radically than previous attempts, revealing how, for example, a lemur was taken on combat missions in the air, a lion was allowed to pad down the front line trenches and how a monkey lost its leg during the fighting at Delville Wood on the Somme.Illustrated with more than sixty previously unseen or rarely published photographs, drawn mainly from the author's own extraordinary collection.
Autoren-Porträt von Richard van Emden
Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written twelve books on the subject including The Trench and The Last Fighting Tommy (both top ten bestsellers). He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including Prisoners of the Kaiser, Veterans, Britain's Last Tommies, the award-winning Roses of No Man's Land, Britain's Boy Soldiers and A Poem for Harry, and most recently, War Horse: The Real Story. He lives in Barnes.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Richard van Emden
- 2011, 352 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1408810077
- ISBN-13: 9781408810071
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.07.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
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