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The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just twelve years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have faked eye tests, inflated their small chests and stood on tiptoes to bluff their way into a war of unforeseen horror. How and why so many under-aged boys were able to get to the battlefields is a complex mystery of World War I, and until Richard van Emden's classic account, largely unexplored.
Boy Soldiers of the Great War tells for the first time the incredible stories of the boys who went to fight for their country. Richard van Emden, having amassed a unique collection of personal testimonies and hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, brings to life their stories of heroism and sacrifice.
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Should this have been allowed to happen? Richard van Emden's fascinating and distressing account ... shows how difficult it is to provide a simple answer. (Sunday Times)
Engaging, well-written and balanced. (The Times)
Excellent and even-handed. (Daily Telegraph)
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Engaging, well-written and balanced. (The Times)
Excellent and even-handed. (Daily Telegraph)
The heartbreaking story of the boys, some as young as twelve, who fought and died in the trenches of the First World War, completely revised and updated in this new edition.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Paperbacks
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1408824728
- ISBN 13 9781408824726
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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