Staring at God

by Simon Heffer

  Random House Books

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  Copyright © Simon Heffer 2019

  Jacket imagery: 1st Life Guards Trooper Wannell departing Waterloo Station, 1916. He survived the war. Photo by Christina Broom © Museum of London. Women in an English shell factory, 1916. World History Archive / Alamy. Statesmen of World War 1 by Sir James Guthrie © National Portrait Gallery, London.

  Simon Heffer has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this Work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

  First published by Random House Books in 2019

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  A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

  ISBN 9781473555969