When the Lamps Went Out
When the Lamps Went Out by Nigel Fountain
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1783350415 | 297 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1783350415 | 297 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Drawn from the Guardian's coverage of the first world war, When the Lamps Went Out portrays a society in cataclysm and proves the adage that journalism is the 'first draft of history'.
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.'
Sir Edward Grey, British foreign secretary, 3 August 1914
When the Lamps Went Out presents a surprising, immediate, sometimes humbling, sometimes uplifting insight into what British society was reading about, and thinking, during the Great War.