On the Front Line: True World War I Stories
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
On the Front Line: True World War I Stories
By (Author) Jon E. Lewis
Little, Brown Book Group
Constable
20th September 2008
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
First World War
940.48
Physical Properties
Paperback
448
Width 133mm, Height 196mm, Spine 31mm
354g
Description
In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'.
It was the very first collection to reveal the many dimensions of the war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier and offers heart-stopping renditions of the very first gas attack; aerial dogfights above the trenches; the moment of going over the top. Told chronologically, from the first scrambles of 1914, the drudgery of the war of attrition once the trenches had been dug, to the final joy of Armistice.Author Bio
JON E. LEWIS is an historian and author of numerous bestselling books on history and military history, including Voices from D-Day, Voices from the Holocaust, The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War and A Brief History of the First World War. He holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in history and his work has appeared in New Statesman, the Independent, Time Out and the Guardian. He lives in Herefordshire.
