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Author: Lyn Macdonald
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 19.70cm
Weight: 0.212kg
ISBN: 9780241952412
ISBN 10: 0241952417
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 26 September 2013
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Her basic inspiration is compassion, her technique is scrupulously painstaking. And her application in finding, interviewing and editing innumerable contributions can only be admired * Daily Telegraph * Brilliantly planned...the knitting together, the arrangement [is] formidable -- Eric Partridge * Irish Press *
Brilliantly planned...the knitting together, the arrangement [is] formidable -- Eric Partridge * Irish Press * Her basic inspiration is compassion, her technique is scrupulously painstaking. And her application in finding, interviewing and editing innumerable contributions can only be admired * Daily Telegraph *
Her basic inspiration is compassion, her technique is scrupulously painstaking. And her application in finding, interviewing and editing innumerable contributions can only be admired * Daily Telegraph * It is rare to find a history of the First World War which manages to convey the front-line soldiers' experiences and to describe what it was that enabled those who survived to get through it. Lyn Macdonald has done just that * Sunday Times * Lyn Macdonald writes splendidly and touchingly * Sunday Telegraph *
Her basic inspiration is compassion, her technique is scrupulously painstaking. And her application in finding, interviewing and editing innumerable contributions can only be admired Daily Telegraph Brilliantly planned...the knitting together, the arrangement [is] formidable -- Eric Partridge Irish Press
Brilliantly planned...the knitting together, the arrangement [is] formidable -- Eric Partridge * Irish Press * Her basic inspiration is compassion, her technique is scrupulously painstaking. And her application in finding, interviewing and editing innumerable contributions can only be admired * Daily Telegraph * Her basic inspiration is compassion, her technique is scrupulously painstaking. And her application in finding, interviewing and editing innumerable contributions can only be admired * Daily Telegraph * It is rare to find a history of the First World War which manages to convey the front-line soldiers' experiences and to describe what it was that enabled those who survived to get through it. Lyn Macdonald has done just that * Sunday Times * Lyn Macdonald writes splendidly and touchingly * Sunday Telegraph *
Author Information
Lyn Macdonald is one of the most highly regarded historians of the First World War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published by Penguin.
