Peter Englund
Peter Englund received a Ph.D. in history at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He has been given a number of literary prizes in his home country, including the most famous one, the August. In 2002, he was elected to the Swedish Academy (who awards the Nobel Prize in Literature), and in 2008 was appointed its new Permanent Secretary. He has also worked as a war correspondent, in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Trade Paperback | 592 pages | Vintage | History - Military - World War I
978-0-307-73928-5 (0-307-73928-7)
September 4, 2012 | $20.00
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An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like.
In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average...
Hardcover | 560 pages | Knopf | History - Military - World War I
978-0-307-59386-3 (0-307-59386-X)
November 8, 2011 | $40.00
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In this masterly, highly original narrative history, Peter Englund takes a revelatory new approach to the history of World War I, magnifying its least examined, most stirring component: the experiences of the average man and woman—not only the tragedy and horror but also the absurdity and even, at times, the beauty...
eBook | 560 pages | Vintage | History - Military - World War I
978-0-307-70138-1 (0-307-70138-7)
November 8, 2011 | $13.99
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In this masterly, highly original narrative history, Peter Englund takes a revelatory new approach to the history of World War I, magnifying its least examined, most stirring component: the experiences of the average man and woman—not only the tragedy and horror but also the absurdity and even, at times, the beauty...
