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The Beauty and the Sorrow (Hardback)
$32.17 - Save $7.58 (19%) - RRP $39.75 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Beauty and the SorrowDescribing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, this title explores the everyday aspects of war: not only the tragedy and horror, but also the absurdity, monotony and even beauty.
Full description- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Published: 20 October 2011
- Format: Hardback 448 pages
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- Categories: European History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | Social & Cultural History | First World War
- ISBN 13: 9781846683428 ISBN 10: 1846683424
- Sales rank: 44,679
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Full description for The Beauty and the Sorrow
The Great War: four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses. There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, he explores the everyday aspects of war: not only the tragedy and horror, but also the absurdity, monotony and even beauty. Two of these twenty will perish, two will become prisoners of war, two will become celebrated heroes and two others end up as physical wrecks. One of them go mad, another will never hear a shot fired. Following soldiers and sailors, nurses and government workers from Britain, Russia and Germany, and from Australia and South America - and in theatres of war often neglected by major histories on the period - Englund reconstructs their feelings, impressions, experiences and moods. This is a piece of anti-history: it brings this epoch-making event back to its smallest component, the individual.
