David Crane

Up close and personal: voices from the Great War, week by week

Extracts from hundreds of letters and diaries provide moving testimony to the dignity and selfless courage of all nationalities involved

Wounded German soldiers at the Front. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 27 February 2021
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  • As We Were: The First World War: Tales from a Broken World Week-by-Week

    David Hargreaves and Margaret-Louise O’Keeffe

    White Fox Publishing, four volumes, pp. 2200, £100

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