Richard Van Emden

Meeting the Enemy

The Human Face of the Great War

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A British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; British women married to Germans became 'enemy aliens' in their own country; a high-ranking British POW discussed his own troops' heroism with the Kaiser on the battlefield. Just three amazing stories of contact between the opposing sides in the Great War that eminent historian Richard van Emden has unearthed - incidents that show brutality, great humanity, and above all the bizarre nature of a conflict between two nations with long-standing ties of kinship and friendship. Meeting the Enemy reveals for the first time how contact was maintained on many levels through… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4088-4335-2
EAN: 9781408843352
Produktnummer: 15711288
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.2 cm x D2.8 cm 340 g
Abbildungen: 2 x 16 black and white plates
Gewicht: 340
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written fourteen books on the subject including Boy Soldiers of the Great War and The Last Fighting Tommy. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including Britain's Last Tommies, Britain's Boy Soldiers, the award-winning Roses of No Man's Land, and most recently, War Horse: The Real Story. He lives in West London.