Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly-regarded series of
books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van
Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and
memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally-held
cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard tells the story of
1917, of life both in and out of the line culminating in perhaps
the most dreaded battle of them all, the Battle of Passchendaele.
His pervious book, The Somme, has now sold nearly 20,000 copies in
hardback and softback, proving that the public appetite is
undiminished for new, original stories illustrated with over 150
rarely or never-before-seen battlefield images. The author has an
outstanding collection of over 5,000 privately-taken and
overwhelmingly unpublished photographs, revealing the war as it was
seen by the men involved, an existence that was sometimes
exhilarating, too often terrifying, and occasionally even fun.
Richard van Emden interviewed 270 veterans of the Great War, has
written extensively about the soldiers' lives, and has worked on
many television documentaries, always concentrating on the human
aspects of war, its challenge and its cost to the millions of men
involved. This book will be published in June 2017, in time for the
100th anniversary of the epic Battle of Passchendaele which began
on 31st July 1917 Richard van Emden s books sold over 650,000 books
and have appeared in The Times bestseller chart on a number of
occasions. He lives in West London and regularly appears on
television, mostly recently as BBC1 s historian for the national
commemorations of the Somme Battle. He has appeared on over forty
television documentaries and has written nineteen books on the
First World War.
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