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'''Richard van Emden''' is a British [[author]] and television [[documentary]] producer who specialises in the [[First World War]].
'''Richard van Emden''' is a British author and television documentary producer who specialises in the [[First World War]].
==Life==

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."<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.bookreporter.com/authors/richard-van-emden | title=Richard van Emden | access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref>
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."<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.bookreporter.com/authors/richard-van-emden | title=Richard van Emden | access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.military-history.org/books/review-missing-the-need-for-closure-after-the-great-war.htm | title = Missing: The Need for Closure after the Great War | access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref>


He lives in West London.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.bookreporter.com/authors/richard-van-emden | title=Richard van Emden | access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref>
He lives in West London.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.bookreporter.com/authors/richard-van-emden | title=Richard van Emden | access-date=18 June 2021}}</ref>
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* {{cite book | url = http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=97 | title = Last Man Standing : The Memoirs of a Seaforth Highlander during the Great War | publisher = Pen and Sword Bookd Ltd | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-85052-863-1}}
* {{cite book | url = http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=97 | title = Last Man Standing : The Memoirs of a Seaforth Highlander during the Great War | publisher = Pen and Sword Bookd Ltd | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-85052-863-1}}
* {{cite book | url = http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=101 | title = Prisoners of the Kaiser | publisher = Pen and Sword Books Ltd | year= 2000 | isbn = 0-85052-734-1}}
* {{cite book | url = http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=101 | title = Prisoners of the Kaiser | publisher = Pen and Sword Books Ltd | year= 2000 | isbn = 0-85052-734-1}}
* {{cite web| author = Richard van Emden (producer)| url = http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/homefront.html | title= Rescued from oblivion | publisher = Channel 4 | accessdate = 22 March 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090123030615/http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/homefront.html | archive-date = January 23, 2009 }}{{efn|Credits for “Rescued from oblivion” :
* {{cite web| author = Richard van Emden (producer)| url = http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/homefront.html | title= Rescued from oblivion | publisher = Channel 4 | accessdate = 22 March 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090123030615/http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/homefront.html | archive-date = 23 January 2009 }}{{efn|Credits for "Rescued from oblivion" :
Produced to accompany ‘’Horror on the Home Front’’ (a Testimony Films production for Channel 4), first shown on Channel 4 in December 2002. Writer: Steve Humphries. Designer: Clifford Singer at Edition. Editor: Nancy Duin. Project manager: Sarah Woodley. Resources co-ordinator: Nicole Carman. Picture researcher: Nick Pearson. Proofreader/website validator: Elaine Pollard. Photo: Getty Images <ref>{{cite web| publisher = Channel 4 | title = Rescued from oblivion > Credits| access-date = 22 March 2019 | url = http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/homefrontcredits.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080821184141/http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/homefrontcredits.html | archive-date = August 21, 2008}}</ref>}}
Produced to accompany ‘’Horror on the Home Front’’ (a Testimony Films production for Channel 4), first shown on Channel 4 in December 2002. Writer: Steve Humphries. Designer: Clifford Singer at Edition. Editor: Nancy Duin. Project manager: Sarah Woodley. Resources co-ordinator: Nicole Carman. Picture researcher: Nick Pearson. Proofreader/website validator: Elaine Pollard. Photo: Getty Images <ref>{{cite web| publisher = Channel 4 | title = Rescued from oblivion > Credits| access-date = 22 March 2019 | url = http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/homefrontcredits.html | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080821184141/http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/homefrontcredits.html | archive-date = 21 August 2008}}</ref>}}
* {{cite book | title = The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch | url = https://archive.org/details/lastfightingtomm0000patc_u4o1 | url-access = registration | publisher = Bloomsbury | location = London | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-0-7475-9115-3}}
* {{cite book | title = The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch | url = https://archive.org/details/lastfightingtomm0000patc_u4o1 | url-access = registration | publisher = Bloomsbury | location = London | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-0-7475-9115-3}}
* {{cite book | title = The Trench: Experiencing Life on the Front Line 1916 | publisher = Bantam Press | location = London | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-593-04975-6}}
* {{cite book | title = The Trench: Experiencing Life on the Front Line 1916 | publisher = Bantam Press | location = London | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-593-04975-6}}
* {{cite book | title = 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| last1 = Clouting| first1 = Benjamin| year = 1996}}
* {{cite book | title = Tickled to Death to Go: The memoirs of a cavalryman in the first world war | publisher = Spellmount Publishers Ltd | year = 1996 | isbn = 978-1-873376-55-3| last1 = Clouting| first1 = Benjamin}}
* {{cite book | url = http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=1037 | title = Veterans: The last survivors of the Great War | publisher = Pen and Sword Books Ltd | year = 2005 | isbn = 1-84415-319-3}}
* {{cite book | url = http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=1037 | title = Veterans: The last survivors of the Great War | publisher = Pen and Sword Books Ltd | year = 2005 | isbn = 1-84415-319-3}}
* {{cite book | title = Boy Soldiers of the Great War | publisher = Headline | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-0-7553-1303-7 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/boysoldiersofgre0000vane }}
* {{cite book | title = Boy Soldiers of the Great War | publisher = Headline | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-0-7553-1303-7 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/boysoldiersofgre0000vane }}
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* {{cite book | url = http://www.richardvanemden.com/book-store.html | title = Tommy's Ark: Soldiers and their Animals in the Great War | publisher = Bloomsbury | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-1-4088-0611-1}}
* {{cite book | url = http://www.richardvanemden.com/book-store.html | title = Tommy's Ark: Soldiers and their Animals in the Great War | publisher = Bloomsbury | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-1-4088-0611-1}}
* {{cite book | url = http://www.richardvanemden.com/book-store.html |title = Meeting the Enemy: the human face of the great war | publisher = Bloomsbury | year = 2013 | isbn = 978-1-4088-4335-2}}
* {{cite book | url = http://www.richardvanemden.com/book-store.html |title = Meeting the Enemy: the human face of the great war | publisher = Bloomsbury | year = 2013 | isbn = 978-1-4088-4335-2}}
* {{cite book | title = 1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs | publisher = Crown Forum | year = 2018 | isbn = 978-1-5847-9911-5 }}<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/1918-decisive |title= Book review&mdash;1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs (The National Archives)| first = Jerry | last = Lenaburg | work = The New York Journal of Books |date=2018-11-30 |accessdate=2012-12-11}}</ref>
* {{cite book | title = 1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs | publisher = Crown Forum | year = 2018 | isbn = 978-1-5847-9911-5 }}<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/1918-decisive |title= Book review&mdash;1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs (The National Archives)| first = Jerry | last = Lenaburg | work = The New York Journal of Books |date=30 November 2018 |accessdate=2012-12-11}}</ref>
* {{cite book | title = Missing: The Need for Closure after the Great War | publisher = Pen and Sword | year = 2020 | isbn = 978-1-5847-9911-5 }}<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.military-history.org/books/review-missing-the-need-for-closure-after-the-great-war.htm |title= Book review&mdash; Missing: The Need for Closure after the Great War| first = Nicholas | last = Saunders | work = Military History Matters |date=2020-10-29 |accessdate=2021-06-18}}</ref>
* {{cite book | title = Missing: The Need for Closure after the Great War | publisher = Pen and Sword | year = 2020 | isbn = 978-1-5847-9911-5 }}<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.military-history.org/books/review-missing-the-need-for-closure-after-the-great-war.htm |title= Book review&mdash; Missing: The Need for Closure after the Great War| first = Nicholas | last = Saunders | work = Military History Matters |date=29 October 2020 |accessdate=2021-06-18}}</ref>


== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==
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* {{official website|http://www.richardvanemden.com}}
* {{official website|http://www.richardvanemden.com}}
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/spotlight/2002/03/the_trench.shtml
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/spotlight/2002/03/the_trench.shtml
* http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article380489.ece
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110517043947/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article380489.ece The Times]


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[[Category:British military historians]]
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[[Category:People educated at Reading Blue Coat School]]
[[Category:People educated at Reading Blue Coat School]]
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Latest revision as of 02:54, 27 September 2024

Richard van Emden is a British author and television documentary producer who specialises in the First World War.

Life

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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]

He lives in West London.[2]

Bibliography

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Footnotes

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Notes

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  1. ^ Credits for "Rescued from oblivion" : Produced to accompany ‘’Horror on the Home Front’’ (a Testimony Films production for Channel 4), first shown on Channel 4 in December 2002. Writer: Steve Humphries. Designer: Clifford Singer at Edition. Editor: Nancy Duin. Project manager: Sarah Woodley. Resources co-ordinator: Nicole Carman. Picture researcher: Nick Pearson. Proofreader/website validator: Elaine Pollard. Photo: Getty Images [3]

References

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  1. ^ "Richard van Emden". Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Richard van Emden". Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Rescued from oblivion > Credits". Channel 4. Archived from the original on 21 August 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  4. ^ Lenaburg, Jerry (30 November 2018). "Book review—1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs (The National Archives)". The New York Journal of Books. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  5. ^ Saunders, Nicholas (29 October 2020). "Book review— Missing: The Need for Closure after the Great War". Military History Matters. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
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