Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War, by Richard van Emden
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A British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; British women married to Germans became "enemy aliens" in their own country; a high-ranking British POW discussed his own troops’ heroism with the Kaiser on the battlefield. Just three amazing stories of contact between the opposing sides in the Great War that eminent historian Richard van Emden has unearthed--incidents that show brutality, great humanity, and above all, the bizarre nature of a conflict between two nations with long-standing ties of kinship and friendship. Meeting the Enemy reveals for the first time how contact was maintained on many levels throughout the War, and through its stories--sometimes funny, often moving--gives us a new perspective on the lives of ordinary men and women caught up in extraordinary events.
Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War, by Richard van Emden - Amazon Sales Rank: #2721065 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-26
- Released on: 2015-05-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.84" h x 1.09" w x 6.89" l, 1.01 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War, by Richard van Emden Review
“Remarkable . . . Richard van Emden is a World War I specialist who has found a niche, little explored, charting the personal contacts between Britons and Germans and their feelings about each other as the war progressed . . . Makes you think rather differently about the so-called ‘Great War For Civilisation.'” ―Daily Mail
“Richard van Emden's tour-de-force of research casts a fascinating new light on the human face of the Great War, allowing us into the strangest of meetings between British and German enemies in the trenches, behind the lines and on the home front . . . Extraordinary and often inspirational stories of comradeship between foes . . . Among many compelling photographs in this book, there is a grainy and heartbreaking image of a bowed and broken British prisoner tied to a post and left in the snow.” ―Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, The Times
“From the horrors of the First World War battlefields are tales of extraordinary camaraderie between British and German soldiers.” ―Daily Express
“In Meeting the Enemy, the historian Richard van Emden shifts his focus from the grim fields of the First World War to the small, all but unknown instances of compassion across enemy lines.” ―New Statesman
“Richard van Emden uncovers myriad encounters between German and British forces . . . Van Emden's tales of friendship and honour between enemies only heighten the mystery of how these men slaughtered each other in their millions for four years.” ―Metro
“Meeting the Enemy is a meticulously researched account of contacts between the British and Germans during the war, mainly in the trenches, but also as prisoners of war and as 'enemy alien' wives. It is full of fascinating information and will appeal particularly to great war gluttons, the people who can't get enough of this stuff.” ―Observer
“An interesting chapter on what happened to those in mixed Anglo-German marriages . . . Van Emden wants to remind us that not all was hellish: there was also humour, mutual baiting and occasional easy-going relations. As well as direct contact during the Christmas truces, this book explores indirect contacts, using many unpublished letter and diaries.” ―Peter Conradi, Spectator
“A real cracker.” ―Literary Review
About the Author Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written fourteen books on the subject including Boy Soldiers of the Great War and The Last Fighting Tommy. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programs on the First World War, including Britain's Last Tommies, Britain's Boy Soldiers, the award-winning Roses of No Man's Land, and most recently, War Horse: The Real Story. He lives in West London.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A flawed book By Steven C. Anderson I had expected from "Meeting" in the title more an account of soldiers from opposite sides encountering each other in various circumstances and, perhaps, discovering their mutual humanity. Images from "All Quiet on the Western Front" and of the historical Christmas Truce in 1914 came to mind. There is some of that, but it's not what most of this book is about.Instead, the author relates in considerable detail the experiences of enemy aliens detained in the 'enemy' countries in which they lived or happened to be visiting when the war broke out (and to some extent the later experiences of POWs, mainly British). Many were people of German origin living in Britain, some of whom had become naturalized citizens. Others included Britons who had married Germans and under British law of the day automatically became German citizens even if they continued to live in Britain. In some cases these accounts are interesting, but in others they are detailed to the point of tediousness.Although it contains much information, this is an uneven book, sometimes lacking continuity, and occasionally incorporating errors -- the most glaring of which, to a history buff, is the author's reference (on p. 298) to von Hindenburg as "chancellor" in 1917. Hindenburg was a field marshal in the German Army. He retired soon after the war, and later, in 1925, was elected president of Germany, in which office he remained until his death in 1934. Hindenburg was never chancellor, though in his dotage (at age 85) he unfortunately was pressured by a cabal of right-wing politicians into appointing Hitler chancellor in 1933.In the end, the book simply stops. There is no effort to summarize or draw conclusions from the experiences of people on either side during the four years of mutual slaughter that was World War I.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Oh what a crazy war! By T. Washington Meeting The Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War is one of those books that tends to up end all my preconcpetions about this first global conflict.It is usually overlooked (at least in Britain) that until the outbreak of WWI, the two countries had long standing cultural, religious( the patron saint of Germany is an English born missionary St.Boniface( and even familialy( Kaiser Wilhelm was not just a cousin of King George V- as both were of Czar Nicholas II of Russia- but a grandson of Queen Victoria and until 1917 the British Royal Family as known as Saxe Coburg- now renamed Windsor). Despite several petty and small minded attitudes towards the "enemy"(both civilians and soldiers), Richard van Emden also scrupulously records instances of moving humanity even in the extremity of war.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Uniques By milo wood Unique angle on the war full of interesting stories. Although a bit too much on the fate of British women who married German men
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