War in Words

Name: War in Words
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ISBN: 9781471136801

ISBN-10: 1471136809

ISBN-13: 9781471136801

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Authors: Svetlana Palmer, Sarah Wallis

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Departing radically from traditional histories, A WAR IN WORDS tells the story of the First World War on a compelling, human scale through the letters and diaries of its participants -- whether combatants, eyewitnesses or victims. This was a young person's war and these people record their experiences with all the immediacy and passion of youth. They talk to us directly from within the war itself and from all sides of the conflict -- from the testimony of a Serbian teenager, one of Franz Ferdinand's assassins, to the final entry from a French soldier as he revisits a battlefield in 1919, realising he and the rest of the world have changed irrevocably.Most of these letters and diaries have…

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List price: $7.99
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Limited
Publication date: 3/13/2014
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 400
Language: English

Svetlana Palmer was born in Moscow and educated in Russia and Britain, where she has lived since 1990. She is a researcher and producer and her credits include THE COLD WAR and THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN COLOUR. Sarah Wallis has worked as a researcher and producer on a number of contemporary and historical films about Europe, including the BBC's award-winning PEOPLE'S CENTURY. This is their first book.