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The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914 (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)
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The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914 (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)
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Total price: R820
Discovery Miles: 8 200
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The sky was lit by burning villages and houses . . . Rivers and
seas of flame leaping up hundreds of feet, crowned by black smoke
that covered the entire heaven. It lit up houses wrecked by shells,
dead horses, demolished railway stations, engines that had been
taken up with their lines and signals, and all twisted round and
pulled up, as a bad child spoils a toy. And there we joined the
refugees, with all their goods on barrows and carts, in a double
line moving forwards about a hundred yards an hour, white and drawn
and beyond emotion.' In 1914 the summer peace was shattered by an
assassination in the Balkans and, within weeks, a continent was
engulfed in war. Eager volunteers rushed to enlist. All the nations
involved felt the righteousness of their cause, and everybody
believed the fighting would be over in weeks. The reality was very
different. War that seemed glorious in August had become hellish by
September. British soldiers sent across the Channel found the roads
clogged by desolate crowds of French and Belgian refugees, their
lives destroyed. The suffering caused by the siege of Antwerp, the
gruelling battles of Mons and Ypres, even the fragile Christmas
Truce, brought home the awful reality of war. Using new letters and
diaries from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, Malcolm Brown
skilfully recreates this pivotal year through the moving
experiences of men and women who felt the war first-hand, vividly
capturing the brutal reality of war as well as moments of great
humanity.
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