La Belleza y el Dolor de la Batalla (Edition 2) (Hardcover)

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Peter Englund tells the story of the First World War through the eyes, letters, and diaries of twenty individuals. They cover a range of nationalities and social classes. All lives are changed, and sadly, some are lost. The result is a powerful book about what war does to the people who participa...

from markm2315

A narrative history of the first world war. The author, an historian and war correspondent, uses the diaries and reports of about 20 different people - soldiers, nurses, a German child, the brain surgeon Harvey Cushing - and runs through the war years chronologically, telling us what each differe...

from PCorrigan

Very unique and interesting look at WWI. The fact that the most ignored and unknown theaters of the war (Mesopotamia, East Africa, Salonika) are included makes it even more fascinating. Where he found these accounts and stories is probably an interesting story in itself. A Venezuelan in the Ottom...

from douboy50

The Beauty and the Sorrow............a great book. This work is not about the First World War. It is about people. It is about people observing the war, participating in the war, being against the war, and disgusted by the war, among other things. This book follows twenty people caught up in vary...

from tututhefirst

This is not a book to be enjoyed in the sense of bringing pleasure or smiles to the reader, but it is a book to be savored and remembered and celebrated. In this work, the author gives us the Great War, not as a series of battles, blunders, and victories, not as the bloviations of politicians, ki...