- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd; illustrated edition edition (12 Aug 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 085052640X
- ISBN-13: 978-0850526400
- Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 19 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 889,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Peter Barton - author of Beneath Flanders Fields.
‘A deeply gratifying and thought-provoking book...full of human interest and insight...a must read.’
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It is now eighty-seven years since the First World War ended and the survivors returned to Britain to re-build their lives. Veterans - The Last Survivors of the Great War accompanied the celebrated two-part BBC1 documentary of the same name.
Veterans, talking openly for the first time about their experiences, give powerful testimony, a final insight into the war which has shaped the 20th century. Their stories, moving and heartbreaking, funny and perceptive, tell of how a new volunteer army went to war in 1914 to fight in such brutal battles as Loos, the Somme and Passchendaele.
The Home Front, too often forgotten in books about the First World War, is also brought alive through the testimony of loved ones who stayed at home. Nurses tell of caring for the wounded, a munitions worker labouring in the factories. But perhaps most moving of all are the testimonies of children who lost fathers and young women, their fiancés.
This evocative book is illustrated with a unique collection of private photographs, many published here for the first time. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Veterans, talking openly for the first time about their experiences, give powerful testimony, a final insight into the war which has shaped the 20th century. Their stories, moving and heartbreaking, funny and perceptive, tell of how a new volunteer army went to war in 1914 to fight in such brutal battles as Loos, the Somme and Passchendaele.
The Home Front, too often forgotten in books about the First World War, is also brought alive through the testimony of loved ones who stayed at home. Nurses tell of caring for the wounded, a munitions worker labouring in the factories. But perhaps most moving of all are the testimonies of children who lost fathers and young women, their fiancés.
This evocative book is illustrated with a unique collection of private photographs, many published here for the first time. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Honest and moving narrative of the war from those who won it,
By A Customer
This review is from: Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War (Hardcover)
The authors searched and raced against time to find the few remaining WWI veterans and to capture their thoughts and memories. The survivors include women who nursed, or who coped with the deaths of loved ones, and they are all heroes. They recall the superhuman courage and sacrifices which became routine under those horrifying circumstances, and with the perspective granted by age they manage to make sense of the conflict which changed the world as no prior or subsequent event ever did. Awe-inspiring reading, a must for anyone who wants to understand the 20th century.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War,
By Cynthia Panton - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War (Hardcover)
With the dawning of the new century, the memories of the Great War will be just that. The authors of "Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War" have painstakingly sought out those remaining men and women who fought in World War I, and uses their words and memories to paint the picture of the reality of the experience.The memories are grouped by chapters which makes it easy to use for quick reference or personal interest. Each chapter contains stories, quotations, and memories from soldiers who fought in the trenches, nurses, or those who waited at home. Each chapter incorporates a variety of memories, not just soldier's memories. As the horror of that War may fade in our memories, this book will serve to remind us of what was endured by so many as told in their own words. 4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A Priceless Memory & Testament .,
By M. D Roberts - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War (Hardcover)
Having watched the television documentary series, reading the book was a welcome addition and a possession that I will always treasure.As the years go by, these veterans now in their 90's and many aged 100 plus, are becoming fewer and fewer. Their experiences so excellently documented here are a fitting epitaph to those no longer able to tell their incredible stories. The vivid recollections of the experiences in the trenches, at the front, going over the top and seeing so many of their comrades slaughtered are heart-rending. The individual accounts of these heroes portrayed here relate to one of the most catastrophic and traumatic conflicts in history. A conflict that will soon be beyond living memory. These personal stories are a priceless memory and testament of what occurred in order that we might live in freedom. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Veterans, The Last Survivors of The Great War,
By L Q Book Luvr - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War (Paperback)
Like other books by Richard Van Emden, this collection was totally enjoyable. The author, similar to Brown, Macdonald, Arthur and others, has the great ability to allow the reader to nearly experience the Great War through the eyes of those who fought it. The emotions, fears, feelings of those soldiers and civilians are captured in a magnificent way in this book.
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