Richard van Emden, britischer Historiker und Journalist, ist Experte für den Ersten Weltkrieg. Er führte Interviews mit über 270 Veteranen und forschte in deutschen und britischen Archiven. Seine Bücher Boy Soldiers und The Last Fighting Tommy waren in England große Bestseller-Erfolge. Als Autor mehrerer TV-Dokumentationen über den Ersten Weltkrieg war er u. a. für die BBC tätig. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in London.
29 Ebooks by Richard Van Emden
Richard van Emden: Mit dem Feind leben
Ein Fußballspiel zwischen den Frontlinien, eine ungenehmigte Waffenruhe und gemeinsames Feiern am Heiligen Abend 1914: Deutsche und Alliierte begegneten sich im Ersten Weltkrieg nicht nur als Feinde. …
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€17.99
Richard van Emden & Victor Piuk: Famous, 1914-1918
Famous tells the Great War stories of twenty of Britain’s most respected, best known and even notorious celebrities. They include politicians, actors, writers, an explorer, a sculptor and even a …
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€6.25
Richard van Emden: Temporary Heroes
This is a short book based on the letters written between 1915 and 1916 by an officer serving with the 1/4th Gordon Highlanders. Second Lieutenant Down wrote regularly to his girlfriend/fiance …
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€6.22
Richard van Emden: Temporary Heroes
This is a short book based on the letters written between 1915 and 1916 by an officer serving with the 1/4th Gordon Highlanders. Second Lieutenant Down wrote regularly to his girlfriend/fiance …
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English
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€6.30
Richard van Emden: Somme
The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitcheners famous Pals Battalions were first sent into …
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€5.00
A.H. Mure: This Bloody Place
Captain Albert Mure, a company commander in the 5th Battalion The Royal Scots, spent forty-three days in Gallipoli – far longer than many men who fought there would survive. In those few weeks, this …
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€6.24
Richard van Emden: Road to Passchendaele
Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and …
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€6.24
Richard van Emden: Road to Passchendaele
Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and …
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€6.24
Richard van Emden: Prisoners of the Kaiser
Drawing on the memories of the last surviving prisoners of the 1914-1918 war, this book tells the dramatic story of life as a POW in Germany. Stories include the shock of capture on the Western …
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€6.25
Richard van Emden: Prisoners of the Kaiser
Based on interviews with survivors of German WWI prison camps, this account documents the heroism and perseverance of British troops in captivity.Drawing on the memories of the last surviving …
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€22.73
Harry Patch & Richard van Emden: The Last Fighting Tommy
Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict.
Harry v …
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€13.01
Richard van Emden: The Quick and the Dead
At the end of the First World War more than 192, 000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400, 000 children had lost their fathers. A further half a million children had lost one or more sibli …
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€9.98
van Emden Richard van Emden: Tommy’s War
Conventional histories of the Great War have tended to focus on the terrible attritional battles of Ypres, of Arras and of the Somme. What they do not tell us is what life was like for the ordinary …
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€21.87
van Emden Richard van Emden & Chambers Stephen Chambers: Gallipoli
Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written material from British, Anzac, French and Turkish, …
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€21.92
Harry Patch & Richard van Emden: The Last Fighting Tommy
”An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history” Daily Mail
On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was t …
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€13.00
Nigel Cave & Richard van Emden: Somme: Great War 100 Years
This publication, SOMME THE BATTLE 100 YEARS ON, has been published by Pen & Sword Books Ltd, with the purpose of creating an awareness and an interest in the Somme battles of 1916. For nearly thirty …
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€3.73
Richard van Emden: The Soldier”s War
November 2008 sees the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War, ”the war to end all wars” that still haunts and fascinates in equal measure. Richard van Emden”s new book tells that story as n …
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€10.00
van Emden Richard van Emden: Sapper Martin
Albert John (‘Jack’) Martin was a thirty-two-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916. These diaries, written in secret, hidden from his colleagues …
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€15.01
van Emden Richard van Emden: Tommy’s Ark
For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored and lonely and missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their …
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€11.00
Richard van Emden: Meeting the Enemy
A British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; British women married to Germans became ”enemy aliens” in their own country; a high-ranking British POW discussed his …
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€9.00
Richard van Emden: Teenage Tommy
Benjamin Clouting was just sixteen years old when he embarked with the British Expeditionary Force for France in August 1914. The youngest man in the 4th Dragoon Guards, he took part in the BEF’s …
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€3.71
Richard van Emden & Steve Humphries: All Quiet on the Home Front
A “fascinating” look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War (World War One Illustrated). The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British …
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€6.25
Norman Collins: Last Man Standing
A first-hand account of World War I by a nineteen-year-old Englishman who led a platoon into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme. While researching his excellent earlier book: Veterans of World …
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€6.30
Norman Collins: Last Man Standing
A first-hand account of World War I by a nineteen-year-old Englishman who led a platoon into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme. While researching his excellent earlier book: Veterans of World …
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€6.23
Richard van Emden: Missing
The story of one British mother’s desperate search for her son’s remains after he was killed in action during World War I. In May, 1918, Angela and Leopold Mond received a knock on …
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€4.99
Richard van Emden: Missing
The story of one British mother’s desperate search for her son’s remains after he was killed in action during World War I. In May, 1918, Angela and Leopold Mond received a knock on …
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English
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€4.99
Richard van Emden: Missing
The story of one British mother’s desperate search for her son’s remains after he was killed in action during World War I. In May, 1918, Angela and Leopold Mond received a knock on the front door. It …
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English
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€4.98
Richard van Emden: Prisoners of the Kaiser
Based on interviews with survivors of German WWI prison camps, this account documents the heroism and perseverance of British troops in captivity.Drawing on the memories of the last surviving …
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English
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€22.50
Richard van Emden & Steve Humphries: Veterans
Using the veterans own words and photographs, the book brings to life a mixture of their excitement of embarkation for France, their unbound optimism and courage, the agony of the trenches, and …
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€6.25
