A Broken World

A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son at the Front, hoping that one day someone may see them grow; a nurse tends a man back to health knowing he will be court-martialled and shot as soon as he is fit. Edited by the bestselling author of Birdsong and Dr Hope Wolf, this is an original and illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War.Diaries, letters and memories, testaments from ordinary people whose lives were transformed, are set alongside extracts from names that have become synonymous with the war, such as Siegfried Sassoon and T.E. Lawrence. A Broken World is an original collection of personal and defining moments that offer an unprecedented insight into the Great War as it was experienced and as it was remembered.

Product details

• Authors: Sebastian Faulks, No Author, Hope Wolf
• Assisted by: Sebastian Faulks (Editor), Dr Hope Wolf (Editor), Hope Wolf (Editor)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780099597797
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959779-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Diaries, letters & journals, True war & combat stories, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Anthologies: general, Diaries, letters and journals, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Anthologies (non-poetry), True war and combat stories, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)