Richard van Emden explained

Richard van Emden is a British author and television documentary producer who specialises in the First World War.

Life

He interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written 16 books on the subject including the autobiography of Harry Patch, "The Last Fighting Tommy". He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including "Britain’s Last Tommies," "Britain’s Boy Soldiers," the award-winning "The Roses of No Man’s Land" and "War Horse: The Real Story."^[1]

He lives in West London.^[2]

Bibliography

• Book: Famous . Pen and Sword Books Ltd . 2007 . 978-1-84415-642-9.
• Book: Britain's Last Tommies . Pen and Sword Books Ltd . 2005 . 1-84415-315-0.
• Book: Last Man Standing : The Memoirs of a Seaforth Highlander during the Great War . Pen and Sword Bookd Ltd . 2002 . 0-85052-863-1.
• Book: Prisoners of the Kaiser . Pen and Sword Books Ltd . 2000 . 0-85052-734-1.
• Web site: Richard van Emden (producer). Rescued from oblivion . Channel 4 . 22 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20090123030615/http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/homefront.html . 23 January 2009 .
• Book: The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch . registration . Bloomsbury . London . 2007 . 978-0-7475-9115-3.
• Book: The Trench: Experiencing Life on the Front Line 1916 . Bantam Press . London . 2002 . 0-593-04975-6.
• Book: Tickled to Death to Go: The memoirs of a cavalryman in the first world war . Spellmount Publishers Ltd . 1996 . 978-1-873376-55-3. Clouting. Benjamin.
• Book: Veterans: The last survivors of the Great War . Pen and Sword Books Ltd . 2005 . 1-84415-319-3.
• Book: Boy Soldiers of the Great War . Headline . 2006 . 978-0-7553-1303-7 . registration .
• Book: The Soldier's War: The Great War Through Veterans' Eyes . Bloomsbury . 2008 . 978-0-7475-9873-2.
• Book: Sapper Martin: The Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin . Bloomsbury . 2009 . 978-1-4088-0267-0.
• Book: Tommy's Ark: Soldiers and their Animals in the Great War . Bloomsbury . 2010 . 978-1-4088-0611-1.
• Book: Meeting the Enemy: the human face of the great war . Bloomsbury . 2013 . 978-1-4088-4335-2.
• Book: 1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs . Crown Forum . 2018 . 978-1-5847-9911-5 . ^[3]
• Book: Missing: The Need for Closure after the Great War . Pen and Sword . 2020 . 978-1-5847-9911-5 . ^[4]

Footnotes

References

1. Web site: Richard van Emden . 18 June 2021.
2. Web site: Richard van Emden . 18 June 2021.
3. Web site: Book review - 1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs (The National Archives). Jerry . Lenaburg . The New York Journal of Books . 30 November 2018 . 2012-12-11.
4. Web site: Book review - Missing: The Need for Closure after the Great War. Nicholas . Saunders . Military History Matters . 29 October 2020 . 2021-06-18.

External links

• • http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/spotlight/2002/03/the_trench.shtml
• http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article380489.ece