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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]

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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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