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A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2017
When it began, many thought the Great War would be an excellent adventure. Yet, as those who saw it up close learned, it used to be anything but. In the Fields and the Trenches traces the stories of eighteen young idealists swept into the brutal conflict, many of whom would go on to grow to be well-known 20th-century figures in film, science, politics, literature, and business. Author J. R. R. Tolkien used to be a signals officer with the British Expeditionary Force and fought on the Battle of the Somme. Scientist Irène Curie helped her mother, Marie, run twenty X-ray units for French field hospitals. Actor Buster Keaton left Hollywood after being drafted into the army’s 40th Infantry Division. And all four of Theodore Roosevelt’s sons—Kermit, Archibald, Quentin, and Theodore III—and his daughter Ethel served in Europe, though one did not return.
In the Fields and the Trenches chronicles the lives of heroes, cowards, comics, and villains—some famous, some not—who participated on this life-changing event. Extensive original material, from letters sent from the front to personal journals, brings these women and men back to life. And though their stories are a century old, they convey brand new, universal themes of love, death, power, greed, courage, hate, fear, circle of relatives, friendship, and sacrifice.
When it began, many thought the Great War would be an excellent adventure. Yet, as those who saw it up close learned, it used to be anything but. In the Fields and the Trenches traces the stories of eighteen young idealists swept into the brutal conflict, many of whom would go on to grow to be well-known 20th-century figures in film, science, politics, literature, and business. Author J. R. R. Tolkien used to be a signals officer with the British Expeditionary Force and fought on the Battle of the Somme. Scientist Irène Curie helped her mother, Marie, run twenty X-ray units for French field hospitals. Actor Buster Keaton left Hollywood after being drafted into the army’s 40th Infantry Division. And all four of Theodore Roosevelt’s sons—Kermit, Archibald, Quentin, and Theodore III—and his daughter Ethel served in Europe, though one did not return.
In the Fields and the Trenches chronicles the lives of heroes, cowards, comics, and villains—some famous, some not—who participated on this life-changing event. Extensive original material, from letters sent from the front to personal journals, brings these women and men back to life. And though their stories are a century old, they convey brand new, universal themes of love, death, power, greed, courage, hate, fear, circle of relatives, friendship, and sacrifice.
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