The Beauty and the Sorrow: an Intimate History of the First World War
by Englund, Peter
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1846683424
- ISBN 13
- 9781846683428
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Profile Books, 2011 9781846683428. Fine/Fine.. Illustrated with b/w plates. Translated from the original Swedish by Peter Graves 1st Edition 1st Printing. Complete numberline. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 532 pages including index. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket is also un-clipped. No inscriptions. An original narrative drawing on the letters and journals of 20 individuals of disparate backgrounds, nationalities and genders whose mosaic of impressions reconstructs the Great War from the average person's viewpoint and gives voice to previously unheard, or ignored witnesses. "One of the finest writers of our time on the tactics and the psychology of war" Simon Sebag Montefiore .
Synopsis
Peter Englund is a Swedish historian, who has received numerous prizes in his own country and whose works have been translated into fifteen languages. He has also been working as a war correspondent in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Englund is a member of the Swedish Academy (which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature), and in 2008 was appointed its new permanent secretary, an office he still holds.
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1867
- Title
- The Beauty and the Sorrow: an Intimate History of the First World War
- Author
- Englund, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1846683424
- ISBN 13
- 9781846683428
- Publisher
- Profile Books,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- HISTORY MILITARY, GREAT WAR, WORLD WAR ONE MEMOIRS DIARIES ACCOUNTS AUTOBIOGRAPHY QSE.
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