Last Post: The Final Word From Our First World War Soldiers

Arthur, Max

ISBN 10: 0297846442 / ISBN 13: 9780297846444

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, UK, 2005

About this Item

The stories of the last twenty-one soldiers who still survived when the book was written who had fought in the First World War. 272pp.

Seller Inventory # 5135

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Last Post: The Final Word From Our First World War Soldiers
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, UK
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297846442
• ISBN 13: 9780297846444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 700 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • The First World War
  • Military Biographies & Memoirs

About this title

Synopsis

FORGOTTEN VOICES OF THE GREAT WAR was the surprise best-seller at Christmas 2002, selling over 60,000 copies in hardback alone. The formula was simple: Max Arthur interviewed some of the 30 surviving British soldiers from the First World War and combined their stories with other interviews in the Imperial War Museum and various private collections. LAST POST is very consciously the last word from the handful of survivors left alive in 2004. When they die, our final human connection with the First World War will be broken: after this book, we will have only recordings or diaries. We will never be able to ask a question of someone who was there.

About the Author

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.