Last Post (FINE COPY OF UNCOMMON HARDBACK FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)

Arthur, Max

ISBN 10: 0297846442 / ISBN 13: 9780297846444

Published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 2005

About this Item

Fine/Fine. First edition, second printing (same year as first) in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, without dedication or inscription on title-page. Illustrated with photographs. The author found and interviewed the last twenty-one veterans of World War One. The oldest of these men is 109, the youngest 104. In their own words they describe the extraordinary changes that have occurred in their lifetimes. But for these men, the Great War was the defining period of their lives. They saw action in the trenches, at sea and in the fledgling air services. With Index. Some dusting to top-edge; else a fine copy, in a fine d/w, of an UNCOMMON first edition, second printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.

Seller Inventory # 15990

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Last Post (FINE COPY OF UNCOMMON HARDBACK FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297846442
• ISBN 13: 9780297846444
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition, Second Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography and Autobiography
  • History
  • Military

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.