Voices from the Great War

By Peter Vansittart

Book Overview

Bringing together Sigmund Freud, Osip Mandelstam, Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Britain -- voices famous and unknown -- Peter Vansittart takes us through the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531098117
• ISBN13: 9780531098110
• Release Date: March 1984
• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

quirky little gem

This is probably the best book I've read on WW1 (along with "All quiet on the Western Front"). Weaving a tapestry of songs/doggerel, poetry and opinions from the famous (like Siegfried Sassoon, Rudyard Kipling and Apollonnaire), the infamous (like Adolf Hitler), the legendary (like Winston Chruchill), to the unknown (soldiers, captains and villagers), Peter Vansittart has done a wonderful job with this book. Charting day by day, month by month, year by year, we (the readers) are invited to have a peek at the shifting kalaedioscope of the war, from the glorification, denunciation, and the propaganda, from the causes to the Armstice, and the ironic hedonism of the post-war era. A must read book.