The First World War in 100 Objects

Doyle, Peter

ISBN 10: 0752488112 / ISBN 13: 9780752488110

Published by The History Press Ltd, 2014

About this Item

hb, 351pp, many illus.

Seller Inventory # 1707056

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The First World War in 100 Objects
• Publisher: The History Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752488112
• ISBN 13: 9780752488110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military History - Equipment, Insignia and Medals
  • Military History - WWI

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Synopsis

Objects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today. Through them we can understand the experience of men and women during the First World War. They bear witness to the stories of men whose only morning comfort in the trenches was the rum ration, children who grew up with only one photograph of the father that they would never get to know, women who would sacrifice their girlhood in hospitals yards from the frontline, pinning a brooch on to remind themselves of a past life. Weapons like the machine gun and vehicles like the tank that transformed the battlefield; planes that had barely learnt to be flown entangled in dogfights far above the barbed wire of the frontline; German submarines that stalked shipping across the seas. Through these incredible artefacts, Peter Doyle tells the story of the First World War in a whole new light.

About the Author

PETER DOYLE specialises in the understanding of military terrain, with special reference to the two world wars. A member of the British Commission of Military History, and co-secretary of the Parliamentary All Party War Graves and Battlefield Heritage Group, he is the author of a number of works of military history.