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A highly original and revelatory narrative history of World War I that brings into focus its least examined, most stirring component: the experience of the average man or woman.
To create this intimate picture of what war was really like, Peter Englund draws from the diaries, journals,... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Elfriede Kuhr: Add a description of this character.
- Rene Arnaud
- Angus Buchanan
- Kelemen
- Kresten Andresen
- Laura De Turczynowicz
- Edward Mousley
- Alfred Pollard
- Richard Stumpf
- Monelli
- Coppens
- William Henry Dawkins
- Sarah Macnaughtan
- Farmborough
- Harvey Cushing
- Andrei Lobanov-rostovsky
- Vincenzo D'aquila
- Kaiser Wilhelm
- Rafael De
- Stanislaw
- Michel Corday
- Don Juan
- Selous
- Lemberg
- Gilham
- Mary
- Townshend
- Herr Haensch
- Holland
- Anna
- Vasiliy
- Hage
- Yellenic
Setting & Locations edit
- Germany
- France
- Paris
- East Prussia
- De Nogales
- Europe
- Florence
- London
- Salonica
- Verdun
- United States
- Italy
- Moscow
- Constantinople
- Belgium
- Baghdad
- East Africa
- Great Britain
- Petrograd
- Flanders
- Serbia
- Egypt
- Berlin
- Ypres
- England
- Persia
- Mesopotamia
- Romania
- Austria-hungary
- Kut Al-amara
- High Seas Fleet
- Suwalki
- Palestine
- Gaza
- Wilhelmshaven
- Budapest
- New York
- Galicia
- Gallipoli
- Udine
- Gorlice
- Poland
- India
- Jerusalem
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Kirkus Reviews: Best Nonfiction of 2011. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Peter Englund (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Swedish
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Publication Date: 2008
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Classification edit
- Library of Congress: DA640.A2 E5413 2011
- Dewey: 940.309
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Military › World War I
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- New York Times Book Review: Peter Englund’s intense and bighearted new book, “The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War,” begins with a long dramatis personae of the sort that can make your heart sink. Here is advice for proceeding: Gently excise this page and make it your bookmark. You will be getting to know these people very well in Mr. Englund’s novelistic telling, and this dramatis personae will function as your GPS, a beacon during those few moments when, like one of his men and women, you are confused and bereft in the fog of war.
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