‘An engrossing view of what it was like to live in the trenches’ Telegraph ‘A novel and arresting approach to the writing of military history’ John Keegan, New Statesman The First World War has been documented through strategy and statistics, through commanders and campaigns — but Denis Winter’s Death’s Men puts the ordinary soldier at the centre of the story. Drawing directly on the voices of the men who endured it, the book delivers a raw, ground-level account of what it meant to face the realities of industrial warfare: the trenches, the waiting, and the horror. ‘A raw, haunting read’ Guardian Winter, who read history at Pembroke College, Cambridge, brought rigour and deep empathy to his subject when Death’s Men was first published in 1978 to widespread critical acclaim. This edition was reissued to mark the 2014 centenary of the war’s outbreak. ‘Highly readable’ Time Out ‘A compelling account of what the war was like for the ordinary soldier’ Professor Trevor Wilson A classic of military history, and essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the human cost of the Great War.
ISBN 13: 9780241969151
Author: Denis Winter
