The Quick and the Dead - Fallen Soldiers and Their Families in the Great War

Zusatztext An engrossing insight into the human cost through the memories of some of the last of those children Informationen zum Autor Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written twelve books on the subject including The Trench and The Last Fighting Tommy (both top ten bestsellers). He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including Prisoners of the Kaiser , Veterans , Britain’s Last Tommies , the award-winning Roses of No Man’s Land, Britain’s Boy Soldiers and A Poem for Harry , and most recently, War Horse: The Real Story . He lives in Barnes. Klappentext There have been many books on the soldiers who fought and died in the First World War - The Quick and the Dead is the first history of the wives and children who were left behind. There have been many books on the soldiers who fought and died in the First World War - The Quick and the Dead is the first history of the wives and children who were left behind. Zusammenfassung There have been many books on the soldiers who fought and died in the First World War - The Quick and the Dead is the first history of the wives and children who were left behind.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Van Emden, Richard Van Emden
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2012
• EAN: 9781408822456
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-2245-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biography: historical, political & military, First World War, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Biography: historical, political and military, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I