Richard van Emden

Richard van Emden is a British author and television documentary producer who specialises in the First World War. Born in Nottingham in 1965, Van Emden specialises in first-person testimonies of people who lived through World War I.

In writing his histories, he has interviewed over 270 veterans of The Great War. As of 2007, he has visited the Somme and Ypres every year since 1985 and has an expert knowledge of the First World War battlefields.

He lives in London.

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
• Rescued from oblivion about Britain's Channel 4's histories of World War I, produced by Richard van Emden [1]
• The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Bloomsbury, London, 2007, ISBN 0-7475-9115-3
• The Trench: Experiencing Life on the Front Line 1916, Bantam Press, London, 2002, ISBN 0-593-04975-6
• 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
• [2] Sapper Martin: The Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin, Bloomsbury, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4088-0267-0
• [3] Tommy's Ark: Soldiers and their Animals in the Great War, Bloomsbury, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4088-0611-1

External links

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