Last Post
the final word from our first world war soldiers
$20.74
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2014
Summary
Last Voices of the Great War: An Unforgettable Testament
LAST POST is a poignant and essential collection, capturing the final words from the few remaining First World War survivors alive in 2004. With their passing, our direct human link to the Great War has been severed.
Max Arthur, a master of the interview, seized the last opportunity to pose vital questions to those who experienced the conflict firsthand.
This edition has been updated with a new introduction by …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780227412 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780227418 |
| Series: | Gentleman Bastards |
| Author: | Max Arthur |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 286g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 132mm x 22mm |
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Nostalgic photographs add to the book’s flavour, lighting up a time when generations predating the modern, pervasie ‘me’ culture lived and worked for each other.
A remarkably poignant book - MAIL ON SUNDAY
An extraordinary and immensely moving bookThese stories are so harrowing, and their witness so precise and devastating - THE TIMESCrammed with such details, conjuring up the atmosphere of war as vividly as the frequent descriptions of appalling violence - DAILY TELEGRAPHAbout The Author
Max Arthur
Max Arthur is a skilled interviewer who has written oral histories of the RAF and Royal Navy during the Second World War as well as the Falklands conflict. FORGOTTEN VOICES OF THE GREAT WAR was a SUNDAY TIMES bestseller both in hardback and paperback.
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