Death's Men
  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241969151
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $39.99
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Death's Men

Soldiers Of The Great War

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23 Oct 2014
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27 Aug 2014
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The classic bestselling account of the First World War, told by the soldiers themselves - reissued for the 2014 Centenary

Millions of British men were involved in the Great War of 1914-18. But both during and after the war, the individual voices of the soldiers were lost in the collective picture. Men drew arrows on maps and talked of battles and campaigns, but avoided what it felt like to be in the front line. Civilians did not ask and soldiers did not write.

Death's Men portrays the life of ordinary soldiers who were called on to face the appalling fears and discomforts of the Front. It shows the reality of the First World War through the voices of the men who fought.
  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241969151
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $39.99
Categories:

Praise for Death's Men

An engrossing view of what it was like to live in the trenches, go on leave, get wounded, et cetera, and features voice after voice from the ranks

Telegraph

Highly readable . . . it transforms the individual soldier into the subject of history and the war itself into a series of intense states of consciousness lived out at the very edge of endurance

Time Out

A compelling account of what the war was like for the ordinary soldier

Professor Trevor Wilson

A novel and arresting approach to the writing of military history

John Keegan, New Statesman
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