The Quick and the Dead: Fallen Soldiers and Their Families in the Great War by Richard van Emden

The Quick and the Dead: Fallen Soldiers and Their Families in the Great War

Richard van Emden

344 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional sad slow-paced
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At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. A further half a million children had lost one or more siblings. Appallingly, one in eight wives died within a y...

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