Cover art for The Beauty and the Sorrow
Published
Profile Books, November 2011
ISBN
9781846683428
Format
Softcover, 544 pages
Dimensions
24cm × 16.2cm × 4.6cm

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glected by major histories on the period - Englund reconstructs their feelings, impressions, experiences and moods. This is a piece of anti-history: it brings this epoch-making event back to its smallest component, the individual. 'Peter Englund is one of the finest writers of our time on the tactics, the killing and the psychology of war.

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