✦ LIBER ✦

A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War

✍ Scribed by Faulks, Sebastian; Wolf, Hope (editor)

Book ID: 108992974
Publisher: Random House
Tongue: English
Weight: 3 MB
Category: Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

**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. **

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.

In this extraordinarily powerful and diverse selection of diaries, letters and memories, the testament 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.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Diary And Letters Of A World War I Fighter Pilot, The

✍ Burgess, Christopher M 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Pen and Sword 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

This is a first-hand account of the author's grandfather, Guy Mainwaring Knocker and his experiences as a pilot in the R.F.C. in the First World War written as a series of letters and diary entries. He wrote letters virtually every day to his family, while he trained in England and was in service in

No Better Death: The Great War diaries a

No Better Death: The Great War diaries and letters of William G Malone

✍ Crawford, John (editor) 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Exisle Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 8 MB

Perhaps the greatest leader of men during the Gallipoli campaign, Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Malone was commanding officer of New Zealand's Wellington Battalion at Gallipoli. Renowned for his humanity and his superb leadership, he played a key role in the successful assault on Chunuk Bair on 8 August

Collecting Women’s Memories: the Austral

Collecting Women’s Memories: the Australian War Memorial, the next of kin and Great War soldiers’ diaries and letters as objects of memory in the 1920s and 1930s

✍ Luckins, Tanja 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 Taylor and Francis Group 🌐 English ⚖ 118 KB

Pennsylvanian Voices of the Great War: L

Pennsylvanian Voices of the Great War: Letters, Stories, and Oral Histories of World War Iby J. Stuart Richards

✍ Review by: Jennifer D. Keene 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 Project MUSE 🌐 English ⚖ 408 KB

The Great War: A Combat History of the F

The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War

📂 Standards 📅 2013 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality. In The Great W

Letters From the Trenches: A Soldier of

Letters From the Trenches: A Soldier of the Great War

✍ Lamin, Bill 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Michael O'Mara 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB

The youngest of four children, Harry Lamin was born in Derbyshire in 1877 and left school at the age of 13 to work in the lace industry. In December 1916 he was conscripted into the 9th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, an infantry unit with which he served in France and Italy until more than