Max Egremont: 2 books
Forgotten Land
Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the...
Some Desperate Glory
The First World War the Poets Knew
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The story of World War I, through the lives and words of its poets
The hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars is in 2014. And while World War I devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry—words in which the atmosphere and landscape...