The First World War Retold

Name: The First World War Retold
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Paul Cornish
ISBN: 9781472286109

Author: Paul Cornish

Narrator: Mark Meadows

Unabridged: 5 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Headline

Published: 02/18/2021

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Wars, World War I, Military History, European History

Synopsis

IWM was founded on 5 March 1917 when the War Cabinet approved a proposal by Sir Alfred Mond MP for the creation of a national war museum to record the events still taking place during the First World War.

The intention was to collect and display material as a record of everyone's experiences during the war - civilian and military - and to commemorate the sacrifices of all sections of society.The First World War Retold tells the story of that war from a fresh perspective from IWM's unparalleled collections. It presents events as they happened, through quotations from diaries, letters or reported conversations written or spoken within hours, days or weeks of the events they describe.

Through these voices and objects - emotive, immediate, and sometimes surprising - the story of the war is retold from a compelling new angle, allowing us to both understand and reflect upon the landmark conflict that still shapes our lives today.

(P)2021 Headline Publishing Group Limited

About Paul Cornish

Paul Cornish has worked at the Imperial War Museum since 1989, chiefly as a curator in the Department of Exhibits, which cares for the museum's over 140,000 3D objects. He is IWM's firearms specialist and the author of 'Machine Guns and the Great War'. Between 2010 and 2014 Paul worked as Senior Curator on the First World War Galleries Project, and was a key part of the small team who created the content for IWM London's gound-breaking new First World War Galleries.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ana on August 29, 2023

Good basic entry to learning about the First World War. Bought 8/20/2023 from Imperial War Museum in London, UK......more

Goodreads review by Pop on October 17, 2022

An introduction to the First World War. It has good pictures, but I was hoping the information was more precise. Two Example: - At the beginning of Chapter 2: Seven million men marched to war in August 1914. More would follow as the armies completed mobilisation. By the end of the year a million of t......more

Quotes

"The book examines the Great War from its causes through its aftermath, and the concise text is well-illustrated with both black and white period photographs and color images of the various artifacts that the IWM has been able to collect over the past century....For those who are interested in the Great War, the First World War Retold offers a concise and well-illustrated look at the conflict that swept away the old political and social order but unfortunately set the stage for an even more deadly conflict a generation later. The book is highly recommended, and reading it will probably convince some that they must journey to London to see the new IWM First World War Galleries that author Cornish helped to create." The Journal Of America's Military Past