Voices from the Great War - Softcover

Vansittart, Peter

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9780380698561: Voices from the Great War

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380698560 ISBN 13: 9780380698561

Publisher: Avon, 1985

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Bringing together Sigmund Freud, Osip Mandelstam, Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Britain -- voices famous and unknown -- Peter Vansittart takes us through the course of the Great War, juxtaposing letters from the trenches with music-hall songs, and the words of poets and politicians. Linking the public and the personal, the history with the myth, his rich and unorthodox anthology forms a moving image of everything that went into the War, and culminated in its “scalding waste of spirit.”

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“This stupendous and kaleidoscopic book takes the lid off the Great War of 1914-18 and reveals… the sight, sound and smell of Armageddon.” -- London Magazine

“This valuable and entertaining anthology… does not set out to demythologize the war… but it goes a long way towards decosmeticizing it, showing the savage realities in which the myth had its roots.” -- Observer

“The fluctuating moods, dreams, boasts and moments of revulsion and despair… the effect is shattering.” -- Sunday Telegraph

About the Author:

Peter Vansittart is equally well known for his twenty-five novels and for his anthologies on subjects as diverse as London, the French Revolution, and Royalty. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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