Tommy: the British Soldier on the Western Front

Name: Tommy: the British Soldier on the Western Front
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ISBN: 9780007137527

ISBN-10: 0007137524

ISBN-13: 9780007137527

Edition: 2005

Authors: Richard Holmes

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Tommytells the story of the First World War through the experiences of those who fought it. Using previously unseen letters, diaries, memoirs, and poetry from the years 1914-1918, Richard Holmes paints a moving picture of the generation that fought and died in the mud of Flanders. He follows men whose mental health was forever destroyed by shell shock, women who lost husbands and brothers in the same afternoon, and those who wrote at lunchtime and died before tea. Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, this book tells the real story of trench warfare, the strength and fallibility of the human spirit, the individuals behind an epic event, and their legacy.

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/7/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 752
Size: 5.63" wide x 7.72" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Richard Holmes is the author of Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer; Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage; Shelley: The Pursuit; Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834, which was a 1999 New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and a National Book Critics Circle Awards finalist. He lives in England.