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.

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]

Van Emden is known for bringing his eye for emotional detail to the individual stories that illuminate the broader issues in the challenging topics he covers.^[2]

He lives in West London.^[3]

Bibliography[]

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

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External links[]

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

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