Alan (Hrsg.) Taylor

Those Who Marched Away: An Anthology of the World's Greatest War Diaries

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'Wonderful . . . The awesome and tragic are balanced by the humdrum and quirky.' Herald'The writers are mere flotsam on the tides of war. Their words are subjective, partial, personal, sometimes prejudiced and occasionally mundane. But taken together and spanning centuries of warfare, they are the very stuff and substance of human experience.' The Times'Hugely enjoyable.' ScotsmanArranged as a diary around a calendar year, Those Who Marched Away tells many individual stories from many wars down the ages, with several compelling entries for each day of the year. The diarists come from every walk of life; from faceless foot soldiers to those ch… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Taylor, Irene (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84767-415-9
EAN: 9781847674159
Produktnummer: 21953678
Verlag: Canongate Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 688 S.
Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.6 cm x D5.7 cm 733 g
Auflage: Main
Gewicht: 733

Über den Autor

Alan Taylor is a journalist and is currently the Editor of the Scottish Review of Books and Associate Editor of the Sunday Herald. Formerly, he worked for Scotland on Sunday and the Scotsman, where he was Managing Editor. In an earlier incarnation he was a reference librarian. He is a regular contributor to a variety of publications and is half of the Scottish team on Radio 4's Round Britain Quiz.