On the Front Line: True Worldd War I Stories

C B Purdom [Edited and Introduced by]

ISBN 10: 1849010676 / ISBN 13: 9781849010672

Published by Constable, London, 2009

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Very good book in clean light card covers. Internally very good and free of inscriptions. The book is contained in a transparent protective pocket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On the Front Line: True Worldd War I Stories
• Publisher: Constable, London
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849010676
• ISBN 13: 9781849010672
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Revised and Updated Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Malcolm Brown is one of our leading experts on the First World War at the Imperial War Museum. His other books include Tommy Goes to War (Tempus), The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme and The Imperial War Museum Book of 1918: Year of Victory.