Svetlana Palmer was born in Moscow and has lived in Britain since 1990. She has worked on acclaimed historical television series including the Bafta-nominated BBC/CNN The Cold War, ITV’s award-winning The Second World War In Colour and Channel 4’s The First World War. She lives in North London with her husband and their four sons. |
Sarah Wallis was born in America and moved to Britain as a child. She finished her degree in Russian and German the year the Berlin Wall came down. Sarah has worked on several major historical documentaries including the BBC series People’s Century, for which the episode Master Race won an international Emmy, the RTS award-winning Homecoming, and the Channel 4 series The First World War. She lives in North London with her husband and their two children |
| This is their second book together. The first, A War In Words, Diaries and Letters from the First World War was published by Simon&Schuster in 2003
Departing from the form of traditional histories, A War In Words tells the story of the First World War entirely through the diaries and letters of its combatants, eyewitnesses and victims. Powerful individual stories are interwoven to form an extraordinary narrative that follows the chronology of the war, in words written on the battlefield and on leave, under occupation and under siege – from the Western Front to East Africa; and from the North Sea to the southern Balkans. ‘A wonderfully rich repository of witness and experience…A superb book’ – Helen Dunmore ‘Deeply moving…A haunting and mesmeric work full of courage, poignancy, pain and love’ – Max Arthur |