Tommy's War. The Western Front In Soldiers' Words And Photographs

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 375 pages. Ex-Library. (The only mark is one neat stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Shortly after images of the famous Christmas Truce of 1914 found their way into national newspapers in Britain, the military authorities banned the private use of cameras on the Western Front. A considerable number of soldiers continued to use them illicitly to record life and death in the frontline trenches. Thousands of those photos survive today, most never published before•Tommys War is a deeply personal and incredibly revealing portrait of the war through the lenses and words of the soldiers who lived it.Not a traditional history of World War I•not simply the armys history of battles won and lost•Tommys War is first and foremost the soldiers story. Renowned WWI historian Richard van Emden reveals the life of the everyday soldier, using personal photos, diaries, letters home, and observations of the ordinary man and the minutiae of life in the trenches. In vivid and intimate detail, van Emden brings the history of WWI alive.Including over 250 personal and unpublished photographs, this large-format book gives a new perspective on the war that was not captured by the official photographers who traversed the Western Front. Combined with extracts from personal diaries and letters written by soldiers and civilians in Britain through each year of the war until Armistice Day in 1918, Tommys War is a stunning portrayal of humanity, at its best and at its worst.

ISBN: 9781408844366