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Product Description
Published to tie in with the major Channel Four series, this is the hidden story of Britain’s coming of age in the First World War
Product Details
- Published on: 2008-10-01
- Format: Audiobook
- Original language: English
- Binding: Audio Cassette
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Neil Oliver is a writer, historian and television presenter. A leading archaeologist, he has worked on many sites, including the battlefields of Zululand, and is co-author of TWO MEN IN A TRENCH. He is thirty-four and lives in Glasgow.
Customer Reviews
the cost of WW1
the scale of the cataclysm that WW1 visited upon the British is demonstrated by the fact that War Memorials were put up in every city, town & village BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION, in the post war gloom of universal economic hardship, disease & low morale. Neil Oliver's research into a handful of indiviual names from the stark lists illuminates the stupendous loss of life & reminds us that these were real lives. This book made me feel very uncomfortable about how much forgotten is this slaughter of a generation that I knew members of.
purely and simply a great book
So many, strands, so many facets, so many people involved from our island nation in the Great war - Neil Oliver weaves them all seamlessly into this well researched and well written book. It's linked with the Channel 4 series but there's much, much more in the book. Excellent.
Excellent read
I enjoyed this book very much. It is a well told story of the Great War both on the front in Europe and at home. Neil Oliver's stories, both of the war and of his own family's memories make the names on all the memorials to the Great War come alive. They take you to not only to the trenches, but to a society here in Britain struggling with it's loss and socio-economic issues as well. It certainly made me go and take a good look at the one in my town that I had passed by almost every day without thinking about.
I have watched the TV documentary with Ian Hislop as well and note that some of the same stories are told. Why does Neil Oliver not get any credit for this?
