1915

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Over two decades' research puts Lyn Macdonald among the greatest popular chroniclers of the First World War. In 1915: The Death of Innocence, from the poignant memories of participants, she has once again created an unforgettable slice of military history.



By the end of 1914, the battered British forces were bogged down, yet hopeful that promised reinforcements and spring weather would soon lead to a victorious breakthrough. A year later, after appalling losses at Aubers Ridge, Loos, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres and faraway Gallipoli, fighting seemed set to go on for ever. Drawing on extensive interviews, letters and diaries, this book brilliantly evokes the soldiers' dogged heroism, sardonic humour and terrible loss of innocence through 'a year of cobbling together, of frustration, of indecision'.



'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



Over the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian 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.

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The Roses of No Man's Land

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Somme

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This book looks at the battle of the somme which was planned as the big push that would at last break the long stalemate on the western front in world war i however the 18 divisions that went over the top between arras and st quentin on the morning of 1 july 1916 walked into a battle that has g Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 17 maart 1997

Hoofdauteur: Lyn Macdonald

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin

EAN: 9780141961170

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