Veterans : The Last Survivors of the Great War

Of the six million men who saw action during the First World War, fewer than 4,000 are still alive, all but a handful unknown to the wider world.Here many talk openly for the first time about their experiences, giving powerful first-hand testimony. The stories, moving and heart-breaking, funny and perceptive, tell of how a volunteer army went to war in 1914 and fought in the battles of Loos, the Somme and Passchendaele.Van Emden, Richard is the author of 'Veterans : The Last Survivors of the Great War', published 2000 under ISBN 9780753157060 and ISBN 0753157063.