The First World War in 100 Objects - Hardcover

Doyle, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752488112 ISBN 13: 9780752488110

Verlag: The History Press Ltd, 2013

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Reseña del editor:

Objects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today. Through them we can understand the experience of men and women during the First World War. They bear witness to the stories of men whose only morning comfort in the trenches was the rum ration, children who grew up with only one photograph of the father that they would never get to know, women who would sacrifice their girlhood in hospitals yards from the frontline, pinning a brooch on to remind themselves of a past life. Weapons like the machine gun and vehicles like the tank that transformed the battlefield; planes that had barely learnt to be flown entangled in dogfights far above the barbed wire of the frontline; German submarines that stalked shipping across the seas. Through these incredible artefacts, Peter Doyle tells the story of the First World War in a whole new light.

Biografía del autor:

Peter Doyle is a military historian and geologist specializing in battlefield terrain. He is the author of "The British Soldier of the Second World War" and" World War II in Numbers."

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• Verlag: The History Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0752488112
• ISBN 13: 9780752488110
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 354