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Richard Van Emden

The Quick and the Dead

Fallen Soldiers and their Families in the Great War

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At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. A further half a million children had lost one or more siblings. Appallingly, one in eight wives died within a year of receiving news of their husband's death. Few people remained unscathed and the effects of the conflict are still with us. The Quick and the Dead will pay tribute to the families who were left to suffer at home while their husband, fathers and sons went off to fight, and the generations that followed.Through the stories in this groundbreaking history, we realise not just what became of our gran… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4088-2456-6
  • EAN: 9781408824566
  • Produktnummer: 13958874
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 5'049 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


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.

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