Drawing on the archives of the Imperial War Museum, the author presents a lively portrait of life on the Home Front in the First World War. Filled with first-hand accounts taken from diaries, letters and newspaper reports, it reveals the changing life in Britain between 1914 and 1918 in personal detail by the people who actually lived through it.
Published with Imperial War Museums (IWM), The First World War 1914-1918 shows the wide sweep of the conflict, spotlighting some of the obscure but important actions as well as the major battles and the soldiers who fought them.
Featuring letters and emails from war zones, and including the memories both sides of the hostilities documented, this book is an emotive and poignant depiction of war. It looks at warfare through the eyes of troops and civilians. It covers the major global conflicts from World War I and II and the American Revolution, up to Afghanistan and Iraq.
