In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'.
It was the very first collection to reveal the many dimensions of the war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier and offers heart-stopping renditions of the very first gas attack; aerial dogfights above the trenches; the moment of going over the top.
Told chronologically, from the first scrambles of 1914, the drudgery of the war of attrition once the trenches had been dug, to the final joy of Armistice.
- ISBN10 1472111818
- ISBN13 9781472111814
- Publish Date 20 June 2013 (first published 27 August 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Constable
- Edition Digital original
- Format eBook
- Pages 448
- Language English