THE BEAUTY AND THE SORROW An Intimate History of the First World War
by Peter Englund (translated by Peter Graves)
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 030759386X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307593863
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 2011. Later printing . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo(540 pages with index; illustrated with black and white photographs). Focused on 20 people - from a 12-year-old German girl to a French civil servant and an American woman married to a Polish aristocrat - Englund’s account of World War I examines the experiences of those outside the scope of typical histories. Drawn from all corners of the earth, the perspectives voiced here reveal how, in times of war, gender, nationality and notions of victors and vanquished fade when individual lives are lost or left in ruins. New, in dust jacket.
Synopsis
Peter Englund received a Ph.D. in history at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He has been given a number of literary prizes in his home country, including the most famous one, the August. In 2002, he was elected to the Swedish Academy (who awards the Nobel Prize in Literature), and in 2008 was appointed its new Permanent Secretary. He has also worked as a war correspondent, in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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- Chartwell Booksellers (US)
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- Title
- THE BEAUTY AND THE SORROW An Intimate History of the First World War
- Author
- Peter Englund (translated by Peter Graves)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (with Dust Jacket)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 030759386X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307593863
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
- Size
- 8vo(540 pages with index; illust
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