1914-1918 An Eyewitness to War, ed. Bob Carruthers,

1914-1918 An Eyewitness to War, ed. Bob Carruthers,

Four very varied eyewitness accounts of the First World War, including a look at the front by the Director of French Propaganda, a memoir of four weeks spent in the Austrian Army at the start of the war, an American journalist's visit to Verdun and the memoirs of an Official War Artist. These are all fascinating, and provide a very different view of the war to the normal soldier's memoirs.
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