Lyn Macdonald es una reconocida historiadora especializada en la Primera Guerra Mundial, célebre por su enfoque profundamente humano del conflicto. Sus narrativas profundizan en las experiencias personales de los soldados y los desafíos que enfrentaron los equipos médicos, dando vida al profundo impacto de batallas cruciales. A través de una investigación meticulosa y una prosa evocadora, captura la esencia de una generación marcada de forma inolvidable por la guerra. El trabajo de Macdonald ofrece a los lectores una comprensión íntima de la tragedia, la resiliencia y el legado perdurable de la Gran Guerra.
Uses personal accounts and illustrations to cover many aspects of World War I - from the departure of the Old Contemptibles to fight the Kaiser in 1914 to the bloody fields of Flanders. This book touches on subjects as diverse as propaganda, fear, morale, bravery, bawdiness and frivolity.
Over two decades' research puts Lyn Macdonald among the greatest popular chroniclers of the First World War. In 1915: The Death of Innocence, from the poignant memories of participants, she has once again created an unforgettable slice of military history. By the end of 1914, the battered British forces were bogged down, yet hopeful that promised reinforcements and spring weather would soon lead to a victorious breakthrough. A year later, after appalling losses at Aubers Ridge, Loos, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres and faraway Gallipoli, fighting seemed set to go on for ever. Drawing on extensive interviews, letters and diaries, this book brilliantly evokes the soldiers' dogged heroism, sardonic humour and terrible loss of innocence through 'a year of cobbling together, of frustration, of indecision'. 'It is rare to find a history of the First World War which manages to convey the front-line soldiers' experiences and to describe what it was that enabled those who survived to get through it. Lyn Macdonald has done just that' Sunday Times Over the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published by Penguin.
This is an account of the first few months of the Great War, from the build-up of the fighting to the first Battle of Ypres, written by the author of "Somme", "They called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land".