Peter Parker was born in Herefordshire and educated in the Malverns, Dorset and London. He is the author of The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public-School Ethos (1987), a highly acclaimed biography of J. R. Ackerley (1989) and the critically acclaimed biography, Isherwood: A Life (2004). He writes about books and gardening for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines and lives in London's East End.
This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations.
On 11 November 1920, huge crowds lined the streets of London for the funeral of the Unknown Warrior. As the...
Más información
