The Great War : A Nation's Story Paperback / softback
by Isobel Charman
Paperback / softback
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During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died – a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it a human context.
Consequently we struggle to truly grasp the impact this devastating conflict must have had on people's day-to-day lives.
We resort to looking at the war from a distance, viewing its events in terms of their political or military significance.
The Great War: The People's Story is different. Like the all-star ITV series it accompanies, it immerses the reader in the everyday experiences of real people who lived through the war.
Using letters, diaries, and memoirs – many of which have never previously been published – Isobel Charman has painstakingly reconstructed the lives of people such as separated newly-weds Alan and Dorothy Lloyd, plucky enlisted factory-worker Reg Evans and proudly independent suffragist Kate Parry Frye.
A century on, they here tell their stories in their own words, offering a uniquely personal account of the conflict. The Great War: The People's Story is both a meticulously researched piece of narrative history and a deeply moving remembrance of the extraordinary acts of extremely ordinary people.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:544 pages
- Publisher:Cornerstone
- Publication Date:21/05/2015
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- ISBN:9780099591252
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:544 pages
- Publisher:Cornerstone
- Publication Date:21/05/2015
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- ISBN:9780099591252