Back to the Front An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War 1

Name: Back to the Front An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War 1
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ISBN: 9780802776181

ISBN-10: 0802776183

ISBN-13: 9780802776181

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Authors: Stephen O'Shea

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World War I is beyond the memory of almost everyone alive today. Yet it has left as deep a scar on the imaginative landscape of our century as it has on the land where it was fought. Nowhere is that more evident than on the Western Front—the sinuous, deadly line of trenches that stretched from the coast of Belgium to the border of France and Switzerland, a narrow swath of land in which so many million lives were lost. For journalist Stephen O'Shea, the legacy of the Great War is personal (both his grandfathers fought on the front lines) and cultural. Stunned by viewing the "immense wound" still visible on the battlefield of the Somme, and feeling that "history is too important to be left…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 9/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.19" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English