The Trench. Experiencing Life on the Front Line 1916

Richard Van Emden

ISBN 10: 0593049756 / ISBN 13: 9780593049754

Published by Bantam Press, London England, 2002

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Hardcover. First Edition. The Trench. Tiny tear to bottom edge of spine of D/J. Contents: Acknowledgements. Introduction. Recruitment and Training. The Trench 1916 and 2001. Going up the Line. The Britiswh Army on the Western Front. Trench Routine. Maintaining Body and Soul. The Horrors of the Apocalypse: Mud, Rats and Lice. Out of Harm's Way. The Industrial War. Going Over the Top. Wounds and Medics. The Trench 2001. The 10th East Yorks. Select Biography. Index. Illustrated. 302 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Trench. Experiencing Life on the Front Line 1916
• Publisher: Bantam Press, London England
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593049756
• ISBN 13: 9780593049754
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military History and War

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Synopsis

An oral history of life in the trenches of the First World War.

This is a companion book to an ambitious new BBC documentary series which aims to recreate the everyday life of soldiers in the First World War. A group of volunteers from the city of Hull will face life in a specially reconstructed trench in northern France under as many conditions as can realistically be recreated from the testimony of surviving veterans and the official Regimental War Diary. This companion book vividly reconstructs the reality of war – what it felt like to see the front line for the first time, how the trenches themselves were constructed, how soldiers passed their leisure hours, where they slept, what they ate. It takes an original new approach to the history of the Great War, bringing home the unimaginable horror by recreating in extraordinary detail the everyday realities of trench life.

About the Author

Richard Van Emden is the principal researcher on the television series and a respected authority on the First World War. He is the author of a number of books, including Veterans and Prisoners of the Kaiser.