Jerry White

Broschiertes Buch

Zeppelin Nights

London in the First World War

Beschreibung

London becomes one of the greatest killing machines in human history. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers are brought back to be treated in hospitals and millions of shells are produced in its factories. This book presents the determination of Londoners to get on with their lives in the backdrop of a war.

Autor

Professor Jerry White teaches London history at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of an acclaimed trilogy of London from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. His more recent books include Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison and Zeppelin Nights, a social history of London during the First World War. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of London in 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780099556046
• ISBN-10: 0099556049
• Artikelnr.: 41601183