Peter Englund is known to every person, since it is he – the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, the chairman of the jury of the Nobel Prize in Literature – annually announces the names of Nobel Prizes. A world -famous scientist, historian, he laid the foundation for his book about the First World War diaries and memories of its participants. Nineteen completely different people – an adventurer, an ardent Latin American, whose services are refused by all armies except Ottoman; Danish pacifist, mobilized in the German army; a large American who spent summer on the estate in Poland; Russian nurse; The Australian, who arrived on his truck in Serbia, to serve in the army as a driver, each of them writes about the war that fell on his personal share. The author so “glued” these diary entries that achieved a stereoscopic effect – we see a war on the month after a month at the same time on all fronts. All the terrible that happened in the world in the twentieth century dates back to the first world …
Author
Englund Peter
Editor
Gornostaev Barbara
Translator
Chesnokova Tatyana Yuryevna
Publisher
Corpus, 2014
Series
Historia
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