The Beauty and the Sorrow, Peter Englund
The Beauty and the Sorrow, Peter Englund
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The Beauty and the Sorrow
An Intimate History of the First World War

Author: Peter Englund, Peter Graves

Narrator: David Stifel

Unabridged: 21 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/31/2021


Synopsis

An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe—a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like.



In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund's collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.

Author Bio

Peter Englund is professor of history at Uppsala University, Sweden's oldest and most prestigious seat of learning. He is heavily involved in the international media and has worked as a war correspondent in Afghanistan and the Balkans. He has recently been elected to the Swedish Academy, responsible for awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature. His bestselling The Battle that Shook Europe is recognized as the definitive work on the subject, and an international classic of the genre.

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