Gavin Fuller, "The Telegraph Book of the First World War: An Anthology of the Telegraph's writing from the Great War "
English | ISBN: 178131375X | 2014 | 576 pages | EPUB | 802 KB
English | ISBN: 178131375X | 2014 | 576 pages | EPUB | 802 KB
One hundred years on, the First World War has not lost its power to clutch at the heart. But how much do we really know about the war that would shape the 20th Century? And, all the more poignantly, how much did people know at the time?
Today, someone fires a shot on the other side of the world and we read about it online a few seconds later. In 1914, with storm clouds gathering over Europe, wireless telephony was in its infancy. So newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph were, for the British public, their only access to official news about the progress of the war.
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