Posted on Sun, Jun. 24, 2012

“ The Beauty and the Sorrow, by the Swedish historian Peter Englund. He found all of this archival material about World War 1 from various human beings who were involved in the war: a schoolgirl in Berlin; a soldier from Argentina who traveled to the Continent to be in the war; a young nurse from Britain; a Russian soldier … he interweaves these diaries to let you see the war from all these different sources.”

Richard Ford, author of Canada