The Beauty and the Sorrow
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The Beauty and the Sorrow
| Full title | The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War |
|---|---|
| Author | Peter Englund |
| Published | 2011 |
| Pages | 532 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Peter Englund tells the First World War through twenty ordinary participants — a German schoolgirl, a Belgian pilot, an Italian infantryman, a Danish soldier in the German army — assembled from their diaries and letters rather than from strategy. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- World War I — the war the book covers.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.