A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War

A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War - 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295).

An illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War, in which a lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; and a nurse tends a man back to health knowing he will be court-martialled and shot as soon as he is fit.

9780091954222 (hardback) 0091954223 (hardback) 9780091958930 (pbk.) 0091958938 (pbk.)

2014432663


World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives.

D 640 .A2 / B76 2014

940.48