As We Were: The First World War

David Hargreaves was born in 1959 and studied history at Worcester College, Oxford. He became a history teacher, working first at Stamford School and then, for nearly thirty years, at Westminster School, where he was head of the sixth form and a boarding housemaster. Since 2014, he has divided his time between writing and running his education consultancy, DHC London. He lives in North London. David's other writings include Bismarck and German Unification (Macmillan, 1991) and a novel, Under The Table (Unbound, 2018), as well as articles on a range of subjects for national newspapers and periodicals. Margaret-Louise O'Keeffe was born in 1951. After reading English at Girton College, Cambridge, she completed a two-year MA in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Her research there led to the redating of the Lorenzo Monaco altarpiece in the National Gallery. After teaching at various schools and universities, she was Deputy Head at Princethorpe College, near Rugby, until 2007. Since then, she has worked as a freelance lecturer giving talks on literature and art history. Margaret-Louise appeared on both University Challenge and Mastermind.

'...it is gloriously readable. All human life is here: courage and cowardice, heroism and horror. It may cost £100, but it's worth every penny. I loved these books.' – Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times; '...brings us as close as we can ever get to the individual experience of war.' -- David Crane, The Spectator; 'Emotionally gut-wrenching, but full of heart and indeed humour. These books never flinch from tragedy, but fight shy of sentimentality. Above all, they stay sensitive to the huge canvas against which war was played out.' --Sir Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College and author or editor of over 35 books on contemporary history, politics and education