A Broken World

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<p><b>Edited by the bestselling author of<i>Birdsong</i>and Dr Hope Wolf, this is an original and illuminating non-fiction anthology of writing on the First World War.</b></p><p>A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son at the Front, hoping that one day someone may see them grow; a nurse tends a man back to health knowing he will be court-martialled and shot as soon as he is fit.</p><p>In this extraordinarily powerful and diverse selection of diaries, letters and memories, the testament from ordinary people whose lives were transformed are set alongside extracts from names that have become synonymous with the war, such as Siegfried Sassoon and T.E. Lawrence.<i>A Broken World</i>is an original collection of personal and defining moments that offer an unprecedented insight into the Great War as it was experienced and as it was remembered.</p>

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<b>Sebastian Faulks (Edited by)</b> Sebastian Faulks was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulkss books include<i>A Possible Life</i>,<i>Human Traces</i>,<i>On Green Dolphin Street</i>,<i>Engleby</i>,<i>Birdsong,</i><i>A Week in December and Where My Heart Used to Beat.</i> <b>Hope Wolf (Edited by)</b> Hope Wolf is a Research Fellow in English at Girton College, the University of Cambridge. Her main interests are in modern and contemporary literature, life writing and culture. She holds a PhD from Kings College London, and her doctoral research focused on archives at the Imperial War Museum.

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