Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written twelve books on the subject including The Trench and The Last Fighting Tommy (both top ten bestsellers). He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including Prisoners of the Kaiser, Veterans, Britain”s Last Tommies, the award-winning Roses of No Man”s Land, Britain”s Boy Soldiers and A Poem for Harry, and most recently, War Horse: The Real Story. He lives in Barnes.
19 Ebooks by van Emden Richard van Emden
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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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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€14.92
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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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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€8.95
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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€3.75
Patch Harry Patch & van Emden Richard van Emden: Last Fighting Tommy
Harry Patch, born June 17, 1898, was the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood, the horror of the Great …
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€13.01
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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€6.28
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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€6.27
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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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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€21.98
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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€12.95
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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€5.02
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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€5.01
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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€12.97
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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€21.84
Richard van Emden: Britain’s Last Tommies
In the later 2nd century BC, after a period of rapid expansion and conquest, the Roman Republic found itself in crisis. In North Africa her armies were already bogged down in a long difficult …
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Van Emden Richard Van Emden: Volunteers
What greater pride might a young man feel than to serve shoulder to shoulder with his friends in time of war? To enlist into the army with his pals, chums, mates, filling the ranks of battalions that …
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€12.42
Van Emden Richard Van Emden: Volunteers
What greater pride might a young man feel than to serve shoulder to shoulder with his friends in time of war? To enlist into the army with his pals, chums, mates, filling the ranks of battalions that …
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€12.54
Van Emden Richard Van Emden: 1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers’ Own Words and Photographs
1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers’ own Words and Photographs is the next volume in the remarkable series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Revisiting the …
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