Buy this book on-line van EMDEN**, RICHARD: : THE TRENCH: EXPERIENCING LIFE ON THE FRONT LINE 1916LONDON.BANTAM PRESS/a division of Transworld Publishers,2002. ISBN 0593049756.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated front of dw/dj,with capitalised, white-lettered part+sub-title and author's capitalised,white-lettered name too,towards front's lower edge.A matt black spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered part-title and author name as the front's,and publisher's capitalised,white-lettered name and white illustrated colophon to foot of same; rear panel with b/w photograph of troops underground,inside the trench.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges minimally aged/toned but bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread apart from my collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettered spine, a b/w striped headband and immaculate repeated multiple sepia photographs illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn, ix-xipp+1-302pp [paginated] includes Acknowledgements,author's Introduction,13 chapters; 16pp contemporary historic contemporary b/w photographs,b/w photographs and modern day colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp82/83 and pp210/211 respectively,other b/w contemporary illustrations+diagrams,b/w facsimile ephemera maps+documents' reproductions etc.,interspersed throughout the text and the book,a Select Bibliography and an Index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title +title page,a dedication with blank reverse,a Contents list/table,a title separator page also with blank reverse,and to the rear,4pp blanks. Visually the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's 20+ year-old age.It is only the minimal faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading.Despite that,it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for it's brightness,cleanliness and lack of other or age-acquired detracting faults usually encountered in a book of a comparable age.
Accompanying the BBC2 documentary series,this volume recreates in extraordinary detail the experience of day-to-day life for soldiers in World War I.Volunteers have been recruited from the streets of Hull,exactly as the "Hull Pals" (the nickname of the 10th battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment) were recruited in 1914.After being trained just as the original recruits were trained and taken to a carefully reconstructed trench in northern France,they are subjected to as many of the privations suffered by their great-grandfathers as can realistically be recreated.It is an extraordinary challenge, physically, mentally and historically.
Based on hours of original research and interviews with surviving veterans of the Great War,as well as the regimental diary which describes every hour of every day in painstaking detail,"The Trench" aims to give an honest and accurate picture of what it actually felt like to be a soldier on the front line in 1916.
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