The Beauty and the Sorrow : An Intimate History of the First World War Condition:Well Read I was drawn to him

I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life

tells why nothing gets done

this alluring and oddly familiar beauty dressed in housemaid’s garb whom he feels compelled to rescue from a most disagreeable situation

has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband

The Beauty and the Sorrow : An Intimate History of the First World War Condition:Well Read I was drawn to himAn intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe a powerful, illuminating, heart rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium,