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Lead book review

Up close and personal: voices from the Great War, week by week

As the Great War unfolds, voices we don’t usually hear describe with a terrible raw honesty the realities of their experience, says David Crane

27 February 2021

9:00 AM

27 February 2021

9:00 AM

As We Were: The First World War: Tales from a Broken World Week-by-Week David Hargreaves and Margaret-Louise O’Keeffe

White Fox Publishing, four volumes, pp.2200, 100

In the summer of 2014, David Hargreaves was invited by Robert Cottrell, the editor of The Browser, to write a series of articles shadowing, week by week, the course of the first world war. Over the next four years Hargreaves and his researcher and co-author, Margaret-Louise O’Keeffe, brought these out online, and they have now been published, originally by subscription, in a set of four volumes that runs in all to a monumental 2,200 pages.

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