'A formidable achievement' - Rory Stewart 'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' - Observer 'Profound [and] compelling' - Spectator 'A noble endeavour' - New Statesman
In 2020, Anthony Seldon, inspired by a fallen World War I soldier who dreamed of a 'Via Sacra' to commemorate the war dead and stand as a marker for the triumph of peace, set out on a 1,000km walk tracing the historic route of the Western Front. But there wasn't to be lasting peace, with the continent falling into an even more horrific war two decades later.
In The Path of Light, Seldon walks the route from where World War I ended to Auschwitz, discovering the towns and people who resisted in the face of unbearable destruction, and ruminating on the Second World War's legacy.
By:
Anthony Seldon
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781805464105
ISBN 10: 1805464108
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 03 February 2026
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
1: Crossing the Rhine 2: Black Forest, White Rose 3: Swiftly Flows the Danube: Ulm to Donauwörth 4: One Way, Four Paths - From Donauwörth to Nuremberg 5: The Road to Flossenbürg 6: Sudetenland: From Flossenbürg to Prague 7: Prague, Lidice, Terezín 8: Central and East Bohemia: Prague to Pardubice 9: Into Moravia: Pardubice to Ostrava 10: Silesia, Poland, Auschwitz
Sir Anthony Seldon is an educator, historian, writer and commentator. He is author or editor of over forty books oncontemporary history, politics and education, including the Sunday Times bestsellers Johnson at 10 and Truss at 10.
