by Richard Holmes · Marshall Pickering · tapa dura · ISBN 9780007137510
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«Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918» is Richard Holmes's military history essay, published by Marshall Pickering in hardback.
Through letters, diaries and memoirs of British soldiers who fought on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, Richard Holmes reconstructs the everyday life of the common soldier: the routine in the trenches, the waiting, comradeship and loss. He also analyses their motivations, their attitude towards the enemy and the mark the war left on an entire generation.
Published in 2004, it comprises 716 pages in English and is framed within British military history.
Recommended for those interested in military history and the First World War, both general readers and specialists.
Richard Gordon Heath Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.
