Anthology of Armageddon

 

 

Anthology of Armageddon
Edited and compiled by Bernard Newman and I. O. Evans.

London, Greenhill Books, 1989.

 

 

In-8° sous reliure et jaquette d'éditeur, 454 p., note manuscrite à la page de garde, bel exemplaire.
 

Sur la jaquette :
   Here is a classic, complete evocation of World War 1, a distillation in one volume of over 150 books. Linked by a connecting narrative, this Anthology includes carefully chosen extracts from such famous and essential work as :
      - The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay.
      - The World Crisis by Winston Churchill.
      - A Soldier's Notebook by General A.A. Brussilov.
      - Gallipoli by John Masefield.
      - Zeppelins over England by Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar Brandenfels.
      - Good-bye to All That by Robert Graves.
      - Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards.
      - General Headquarters, 1914-1916 by General Erich von Falkenhayn.
      - Verdun by Marshal Petain.
      - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
      - A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
      - Her Privates We by « Private 19022 ».
      - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon.
      - The Wet Flanders Plain by Henry Williamson.
   Other contributors to the book include H.G. Wells, Sylvia Pankhurst, Lord Beaverbrook, Upton Sinclair, B.H. Liddell Hart, Andre Maurois, Edmund Blunden, Arthur Conan Doyle, A.P. Herbert and Compton MacKenzie. Whether as front-line soldiers, sailors and airmen, high commanders, politicians, war resisters, revolutionaries or ordinary civilians, here those who took part in the « war to end all wars » tell of the conflict in their own words. The result is an unforgettable picture of the war as it really was.
   The Editors of the Anthology of Armageddon are both well known authors in their own right, and themselves saw service in the Great War. Bernard Newman served from 1914 to 1919 with the 21st Divisional Artillery Group ; he was present at the battles of Loos, the Somme, Arras, Passchendaele, the Fifth Army Retreat and Kemmel. I.O. Evans served from 1914 to 1919 in the Welsh Regiment and the Special Brigade at Messines, Ypres, Dixmude, the Fifth Army Retreat and the Lys.

 

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