The Great War. A Nation's Story

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Arrow Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 515 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died - a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it a human context. Consequently we struggle to truly grasp the impact this devastating conflict must have had on peoples day-to-day lives. We resort to looking at the war from a distance, viewing its events in terms of their political or military significance. The Great War- The Peoples Storyis different. Like the all-star ITV series it accompanies, it immerses the reader in the everyday experiences of real people who lived through the war. Using letters, diaries, and memoirs - many of which have never previously been published - Isobel Charman has painstakingly reconstructed the lives of people such as separated newly-weds Alan and Dorothy Lloyd, plucky enlisted factory-worker Reg Evans and proudly independent suffragist Kate Parry Frye. A century on, they here tell their stories in their own words, offering a uniquely personal account of the conflict. The Great War- The Peoples Storyis both a meticulously researched piece of narrative history and a deeply moving remembrance of the extraordinary acts of extremely ordinary people.

ISBN: 9780099591252