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==History==
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|author=Peter Englund
|title=The Beauty and the Sorrow: An intimate history of the first world war
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=In simple terms the First World War, like most (if not all) conflicts has come down to us largely as a four-year sequence of events, an acknowledgement of defeat by one side, and a peace agreement. Yet there are many different ways of telling its history, and as Englund tells us in his preface, this is not a book about what it '''was''', but about what it was '''like'''. Though a series of snapshots in words, he shows us various stages of the conflict and its effect on people. His emphasis is not so much events and processes, but more the feelings, impressions, experiences and moods of individuals caught up in the period.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683424</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Oppenheimer