The Unknown Soldier - Hardcover

Hanson, Neil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038560453X ISBN 13: 9780385604536

Verlag: Doubleday, 2005

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A marvellous book. Hanson provides an exceptionally vivid account of a familiar tale with much fresh information' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A robustly clear-sighted and comprehensive book. An atmospheric re-telling of the defeat of the Spanish Armada' SUNDAY TIMES 'Hanson's narrative is brilliant - melding deep research and page-turning writing. He reaches dramatic heights that make him the equal of Parkman or Prescott' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Neil Hanson's entertaining and exhaustive book sets out the issues at stake and with great clarity unravels the bewildering diplomatic, dynastic, religious and commercial turmoil of the late 16th century' THE SPECTATOR 'Not only does the author convincingly nail Elizabeth I and Sir Francis Drake as egregious villains but he does so in glowing historical prose not seen since the days of Prescott and Parkman' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Vivid... A rich mixture of imagination and research... He has a marvellous eye for evocative detail' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written... The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotation with great skill' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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Of all the million British dead of the First World War, only one - the Unknown Soldier - was ever returned to his native land. An anonymous symbol of all those lost without trace in the carnage of the battlefields, he was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey amid an outpouring of grief that brought the whole nation to a standstill, far outweighing even the emotion that was to greet the death of Princess Diana over eighty years later. Inspired by this example, almost every combatant nation buried its own Unknown Soldier and the graves became the focus of a pilgrimage that still continues today. Drawing on largely unpublished letters and diaries, Neil Hanson has resurrected the lives and experiences of three unknown soldiers - a Briton, a German and an American. Nothing is invented or exaggerated; every word is based on the testimony of those who fought, those who died and those who mourned at home. Few books have ever shown the terrible reality of warfare in such compelling, unforgettable detail, or told such a moving story of human life and loss. The rare insight into these three soldiers' lives reveals the Great War in all its horror and tragedy. Amid all their sufferings, the common humanity of the men and their loved ones shines through. Each soldier lives on in the memory of his family to this day. They stand at the head of a ghost army three million strong, all of whom have no known grave. Their story is the story of the Unknown Soldier.

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• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 038560453X
• ISBN 13: 9780385604536
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 560