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Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War

By Richard Van Emden

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year
2014
ISBN
1408843358, 9781408843352
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2721860 bytes)
Pages
400\0
Library
AvaxHome
Time added
2014-03-09 15:39:36

Description

A British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; British women married to Germans became 'enemy aliens' in their own country; a high-ranking British POW discussed his own troops' heroism with the Kaiser on the battlefield. Just three amazing stories of contact between the opposing sides in the Great War that eminent historian Richard van Emden has unearthed - incidents that show brutality, great humanity, and above all the bizarre nature of a conflict between two nations with long-standing ties of kinship and friendship. Meeting the Enemy reveals for the first time how contact was maintained on many levels throughout the War, and its stories, sometimes funny, often moving, give us a new perspective on the lives of ordinary men and women caught up in extraordinary events.

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