The Great War: a nation’s story. Isobel Charman. 2014.

The Great War: a nation’s story uses letters, diaries and memoirs from the time to give a uniquely personal account of this most terrible of conflicts.

Newly-weds Alan and Dorothy Lloyd, patriotic enlisted Reg Evans, proud suffragist Kate Parry Frye, and many others, here tell their stories in their own words, allowing the reader to experience daily life in the trenches and on the home front in remarkable detail.

This is history at its most vivid; a deeply moving record of the extraordinary acts of ordinary people.