Meeting the Enemy (57 page)

‘If ever you are in doubt about the devastation and universal suffering that war brings to us, and to all creatures, great and small, then read
Tommy’s Ark
’

Michael Morpurgo, author of
War Horse

‘Powerful descriptions by all ranks about their feelings for wildlife and the natural world’
Financial Times

‘For those who are interested both in animals and war, there is much to satisfy in
Tommy’s Ark
’

Daily Mail

The Quick and the Dead

At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. Few people remained unscathed.
The Quick and the Dead
pays tribute to the families who were left behind while their husbands, fathers and sons went off to fight, and to the generations that followed. Through a unique collection of more than fifty interviews, private diaries and a remarkable collection of unpublished letters written by the soldiers to their families back home,
The Quick and the Dead
is a history of those who are commonly forgotten and neglected when the fallen are remembered on Armistice Day.

‘A moving account of the emotional, physical and financial hardships suffered by the families of the fallen. It provides a poignant memorial to what one relative called the “heart hunger” caused by the loss of a loved one in battle’

Sunday Times

‘Superb … Shattering for its wealth of tiny heartbreaking truths’ *****

Daily Telegraph

‘Incredibly moving … Remarkable’

Daily Express

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