Buy this book on-line PAXMAN**, JEREMY: : GREAT BRITAIN'S GREAT WARLONDON.VIKING/PENGUIN GROUP,2013. ISBN 9780670919611.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9th imp.[Complete number line 009.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt, pictorial colour poster illustrated front panel of dw/dj with brown and fluorescent bronze gilt lettering,critics' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore -edges very lightly toned but still bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked fluorescent bronze gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a red headband and immaculate contemporary b/w photographic illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,ixpp+2-356pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,author's Introduction, 14 chapters each with a contemporary b/w photographic headpiece,acknowledgements,notes,a bibliography,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/ table with first page of illustrations list/table to it's reverse,double-page b/w map of Western Front before 20 March,1918.
We may think we know about it,but what was life really like for the British people during the First World War?
The well-known images - the pointing finger of Lord Kitchener; a Tommy buried in the mud of the Western Front; the memorial poppies of remembrance day - all reinforce the idea that it was a pointless waste of life.So why did the British fight so willingly and how did the country endure it for so long?
Using a wealth of first-hand source material, Jeremy Paxman brings vividly to life the day-to-day experience of the British over the entire course of the war,from politicians,newspapermen, campaigners and Generals,to Tommies,factory workers,nurses,wives and children,capturing the whole mood and morale of the nation.It reveals that life and identity in Britain were often dramatically different from our own,and shows how both were utterly transformed - not always for the worse - by the enormous upheaval of the war.
Rich with personalities,surprises and ironies, this lively narrative history paints a picture of courage and confusion,doubts and dilemmas,and is written with Jeremy Paxman's characteristic flair for storytelling,wry humour and pithy observation.
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