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.
Recenzijas
The First World War anthology for our time * Evening Standard * The selections have extraordinary literary powerthey speak with distinctive voices, which echo in the mind -- Charles Moore * Daily Telegraph * A marvellous collection * Independent * This is a unique collection of contemporary accounts and just as compelling as the work of any historian * Scotsman *
Papildus informācija
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.
| Introduction |
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1 | (8) |
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Distant Hammers: Hearing and imagining from afar |
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9 | (54) |
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Mind and Matter: Experience at close quarters |
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63 | (90) |
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Between Borders: How the war divided us |
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153 | (64) |
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White Spots: Searching for what was lost |
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217 | (56) |
| Afterword |
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273 | (8) |
| Bibliography |
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281 | (16) |
| A Note from the Editors |
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297 | (6) |
| Index of Contributors |
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303 | |
Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London. Hope Wolf is a Research Fellow in English at Girton College, the University of Cambridge. Her main interests are in modern and contemporary literature, life writing and culture. She holds a PhD from Kings College London, and her doctoral research focused on archives at the Imperial War Museum.
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