THE BEAUTY AND THE SORROW

An Intimate History of the First World War

2011

Later printing

By: Peter Englund (translated by Peter Graves)

Knopf [New York]

8vo(540 pages with index; illustrated with black and white photographs)

Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Black cloth]

Item Number: 18370

$35.00

Description

Focused on 20 people – from a 12-year-old German girl to a French civil servant and an American woman married to a Polish aristocrat – Englund’s account of World War I examines the experiences of those outside the scope of typical histories. Drawn from all corners of the earth, the perspectives voiced here reveal how, in times of war, gender, nationality and notions of victors and vanquished fade when individual lives are lost or left in ruins. New, in dust jacket.