A War in Words The First World War in Diaries and Letters by Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned.

A War in Words is the compelling and moving story of the First World War told through the letters and diaries of its participants -- whether men experiencing combat first-hand in the muddy trenches of the Somme, women fighting the war at home, or children writing about their hopes and fears for the future as war looms.

Told from many different perspectives and featuring contributions from soldiers on both sides of the war, from the testimony of a Serbian teenager, one of Franz Ferdinand's assassins, to the final entry from a French soldier as he revisits a battlefield in 1919, A War in Words provides intimate and honest insights into the lives of those caught up in the horrors and tragedies of the First World War. (back cover)