The Beauty and the Sorrow
An Intimate History of the First World War
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, G…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84668-343-5
- EAN: 9781846683435
- Produktnummer: 12453391
- Verlag: Profile Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 488 S.
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B13.0 cm x D3.7 cm 486 g
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 486
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
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.
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