Richard Van Emden: 15 books
The Road to Passchendaele
The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally held cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard...
Tommy's War
The Western Front in Soldiers' Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Conventional histories of the Great War have tended to focus on the terrible attritional battles of Ypres, of Arras and of the Somme. What they do not tell us is what life was like for the ordinary soldier, what mattered to him, and how he survived, both physically and mentally.
Now for the...
Gallipoli
The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written material from British, Anzac, French and Turkish, including eyewitness accounts of the landings, this is an unrivalled account of what really happened...
by Richard Van Emden
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
1918: The Final Year of the Great War to Armistice is the next volume in the remarkable series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Revisiting the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally-held cameras by the...
Meeting the Enemy
The Human Face of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
A British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; British women married to Germans became 'enemy aliens' in their own country; a high-ranking British POW discussed his own troops' heroism with the Kaiser on the battlefield. Just three amazing stories of contact between...
Famous
1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
'Famous' tells the Great War stories of twenty of Britain's most respected, best known and even notorious celebrities. They include politicians, actors, writers, an explorer, a sculptor and even a murderer. The generation that grew up in the late 19th Century enlisted enthusiastically in the defense...
The Somme
The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitchener’s famous ‘Pals’ Battalions were first sent into action en masse and it was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a nation,...
The Last Fighting Tommy
The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Harry Patch, born June 17, 1898, was the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood, the horror of the Great War and fighting in the mud during the Battle of Passchendaele, working on the home front in the Second...
Veterans
The Last Survivors of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2006
Using the veterans’ own words and photographs, the book brings to life a mixture of their excitement of embarkation for France, their unbound optimism and courage, the agony of the trenches, and numbing fear of going over the top. The fight for survival, the long ordeal of those who were wounded...
All Quiet on the Home Front
An Oral History of Life in Britain During the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
A “fascinating” look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War (World War One Illustrated).
The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and...
by Nigel Cave, Richard van Emden, Tonie Holt
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
This publication, SOMME – THE BATTLE 100 YEARS ON, has been published by Pen & Sword Books Ltd, with the purpose of creating an awareness and an interest in the
Somme battles of 1916. For nearly thirty years, Pen & Sword Books Ltd has published numerous titles covering various Pals battalions...
by Richard Van Emden
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Benjamin Clouting was just sixteen years old when he embarked with the British Expeditionary Force for France in August 1914. The youngest man in the 4th Dragoon Guards, he took part in the BEF's celebrated first action at Casteau on August 22nd, and, two days later, had his horse shot from under...
Temporary Heroes
Lieutenant Norman Cecil Down
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This is a short book based on the letters written between 1915 and 1916 by an officer serving with the 1/4th Gordon Highlanders. Second Lieutenant Down wrote regularly to his girlfriend/fiancée throughout his time in France, letters which were published in 1917 after he was wounded and discharged...
Last Man Standing
The Memoirs, Letters & Photographs of a Teenage Officer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
It hardly seems credible today that a nineteenyear- old boy, just commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders, could lead a platoon of men into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme. Or that, as the machine gun bullets whistled past and shells exploded, he could maintain his own morale to lead a platoon,...
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