A Broken World

Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War

Sebastian Faulks

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English

Arrow
16 July 2018

True war & combat stories; History; General & world history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; First World War

Edited by the bestselling author of Birdsong and Dr Hope Wolf, this is an original and illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War.

A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son at the Front, hoping that one day someone may see them grow; a nurse tends a man back to health knowing he will be court-martialled and shot as soon as he is fit. Edited by the bestselling author of Birdsong and Dr Hope Wolf, this is an original and illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War.

Diaries, letters and memories, testaments from ordinary people whose lives were transformed, are set alongside extracts from names that have become synonymous with the war, such as Siegfried Sassoon and T.E. Lawrence. A Broken World is an original collection of personal and defining moments that offer an unprecedented insight into the Great War as it was experienced and as it was remembered.

By: Sebastian Faulks
Imprint: Arrow
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 256g
ISBN: 9780099597797
ISBN 10: 0099597799
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 16 July 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

SEBASTIAN FAULKS's books include the number one bestseller A Week in December, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Charlotte Gray and Birdsong, which has sold more than three million copies. HOPE WOLF is a Research Fellow in English at Girton College, the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD from King's College London, and her doctoral research focused on archives at the Imperial War Museum.

Reviews for A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War

The First World War anthology for our time Evening Standard The selections have extraordinary literary power...they speak with distinctive voices, which echo in the mind -- Charles Moore Daily Telegraph A marvellous collection Independent This is a unique collection of contemporary accounts - and just as compelling as the work of any historian Scotsman