 Author Name: Jon E. Lewis, Editor
Title: THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF EYEWITNESS WORLD WAR I
Binding: Paperback
Type: BOOK
Publisher: PUBLISHERS GROUP WEST
ISBN Number: 0786712880 / 9780786712885
Seller ID: 1596667
If the First World War has an exact beginning, it was the balmy Sunday of 28 June 1914 in a remote Balkan town, when a Bosnian Serb student, Gavrilo Princip, aimed his pistol at Archduke Franz Ferdinand. A variety of extracts from letters, speeches, memoirs, diaries, & dispatches, this gripping collection covers each year & every facet of World War I. 5x8 inches, 544 pgs.
'The Great War haunts the world still. It slaughtered a generation of young men; claimed limbs, wounded souls; drenched battlefields in blood; made sad legends of the Western Front, Gallipoli, and Jutland, and made heroes of poets; farmers, and factory workers. Clerks it made into Tommies, doughboys, or the Hun. And in this new Mammoth volume the voices of such eyewitnesses to history as these are heard again. So are the words of generals, statesmen, and kings. From the trenches in Flanders to the staff rooms of the Imperial German Army, with the Land Girls in England and U-boat crews in the Atlantic, alongside T. E. Lawrence in Arabia's desert and the Red Baron in the air-with a variety of extracts from letters, speeches, memoirs, diaries, and dispatches, this gripping collection covers each year and every facet of World War I. Among its wide range of witnesses are King George V, Robert Graves, Leon Trotsky, Erwin Rommel, Ernst Junger, Ernest Hemingway, American aviator Eddie Rickenbacker; and Winston S. Churchill. The pieces in this volume compose a stirring human drama of the conflict that redrew the map of the modern world and determined the political course of the twentieth century.
ABOUT THE EDITOR:
Jon E. Lewis is the editor of many Mammoth anthologies, including The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War I and The Mammoth Book of True War Stories. He lives in Herfordshire, England, with his wife and two children.
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