1918: The Final Year of the Great War to Armistice by Richard Van Emden

1918: The Final Year of the Great War to Armistice by Richard Van Emden

1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs is the next volume in the remarkable series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Revisiting the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally-held cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard tells the story of 1918, of both the ferocious spring offensive that so nearly brought victory for the Germans in the West, and the tenacious British rearguard fight that thwarted them. The book also tells the vivid story of the Allied breakthrough and the return to open warfare that was to bring victory in November 1918. His previous books, The Road to Passchendaele and The Somme have sold over 30,000 copies in hardback and softback, proving that the public appetite is undiminished for new, original stories illustrated with over 150 rarely or never-before-seen battlefield images.

The author has an outstanding collection of over 5,000 privately-taken and overwhelmingly unpublished photographs, revealing the war as it was seen by the men involved, an existence that was sometimes exhilarating, too often terrifying, and occasionally even fun.

This book will be published in 2018, in time for the 100th anniversary of the Armistice and the national commemorations that will mark the end of the four-year-long series of centennial events to mark the Great War.

Richard van Emden interviewed 270 veterans of the Great War, has written extensively about the soldiers' lives, and has worked on many television documentaries, always concentrating on the human aspects of war, its challenge and its cost to the millions of men involved. Richard van Emden's books have sold over 660,000 copies and have appeared in The Times' bestseller chart on a number of occasions. He lives in West London and regularly appears on television, mostly recently as BBC1's historian for the national commemorations of the Battle of Passchendaele. He has appeared on over forty television documentaries and this is his twentieth book on the First World War.

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ISBN 13	9781526735553
ISBN 10	1526735555
Title	1918: The Final Year of the Great War to Armistice
Author	Richard Van Emden
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2018-09-17
Number of pages	392
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