Books by Emden, Richard van

Richard van Emden interviewed 270 veterans of the Great War, has written extensively about the soldiers' lives, and has worked on many television documentaries, always concentrating on the human aspects of war, its challenge and its cost to the millions of men involved. Richard van Emden's books have sold over 660,000 copies and have appeared in The Times' bestseller chart on a number of occasions. He lives in West London and regularly appears on television, mostly recently as BBC1's historian for the national commemorations of the Battle of Passchendaele. He has appeared on over forty television documentaries and this is his twentieth book on the First World War.