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The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War Audiobook
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An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe—a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like.
In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund's collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.
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About Peter Englund
Peter Englund is the author of ten books and has won various literary prizes for his work, including the August Prize for the best Swedish Book of the Year and the Sela Lagerlof Literary Prize. He is a historian, journalist, and member of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature.
About David Stifel
David Stifel trained at the Yale School of Drama and has worked for such noted film directors as Steven Spielberg and Danny Boyle.