Richard van Emden
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Richard van Emden is a British author and television documentary producer who specialises in the First World War. Born in Nottingham in 1965, Van Emden specializes in first-person testimonies of people who lived through World War I.
In writing his histories, he has interviewed over 270 veterans of The Great War. As of 2007, he has visited the Somme and Ypres every year since 1985 and has an expert knowledge of the First World War battlefields.
He lives in London.
[edit] Bibliography
- Tickled to Death to Go: The memoirs of a cavalryman in the first world war.
- Veterans: The last survivors of the Great War.
- The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch. Bloomsbury, London, 2007 ISBN 0-7475-9115-3
- Prisoners of the Kaiser: The last POWs of the Great War.
- The Trench: Experiencing Life on the Front Line 1916. Bantam Press, London, 2002 ISBN 0-593-04975-6
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- War: Boy Soldiers of the Great War by Richard van Emden [2]
- Rescued from oblivion about Britain's Channel 4's histories of World War I, produced by Richard van Emden [3]
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