The Great World War 1914–1945: 1. Lightning Strikes Twice
Author: Peter Liddle
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2015-02-19
Total Pages: 765
ISBN-13: 0007598181
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Comparing and contrasting the World Wars.
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The Great World War, 1914-45: Lightning strikes once
Author: Peter Liddle
Publisher: HarperCollins (UK)
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The emphasis of this book is on the human experience that binds together the history of the two World Wars: v.2. The peoples' experience -- The cultural experience -- The moral experience -- Reflections.
Remembering the Great War
Author: Ian Andrew Isherwood
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1786731037
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The horrors and tragedies of the First World War produced some of the finest literature of the century: including Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Goodbye to All That; the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas; and the novels of Ford Madox Ford. Collectively detailing every campaign and action, together with the emotions and motives of the men on the ground, these 'war books' are the most important set of sources on the Great War that we have. Through looking at the war poems, memoirs and accounts published after the First World War, Ian Andrew Isherwood addresses the key issues of wartime historiography-patriotism, cowardice, publishers and their motives, readers and their motives, masculinity and propaganda. He also analyses the culture, society and politics of the world left behind. Remembering the Great War is a valuable, fascinating and stirring addition to our knowledge of the experiences of WWI.
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Laughter and War
Author: Lesley Milne
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016-01-14
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1443887684
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →War is no laughing matter. During a war, however, laughter can play a vital role in sustaining morale, both in the armies at the Front and in their homelands. Among wars, the 1914–18 conflict has left a haunting legacy, and remains a central topic in modern European history. This book offers a comparative study of the impact of the war in four countries, and breaks new ground by exploring this through the medium of what their respective populations laughed at. By searching the pages of four humorous-satirical magazines, Punch in the UK, Le Rire (France), Simplicissimus (Germany), and Novy Satirikon (Russia), all of which supported the national war efforts, it examines the ways in which humour made an important contribution to the propaganda war. All four magazines were famous for their cartoons, a selection of which is included, but much of the humour was expressed through the written word, in skits, squibs, comic tales, and light verse. Translated into English, these snapshots of the moment are brought together to chart the responses on both sides of the conflict to issues and unfolding events, identifying the stories that nations liked to tell about themselves and also the ones they liked to be told.
The Origins of the First World War
Author: Annika Mombauer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1317875842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The seminal event of the 20th century, the origins of the First World War have always been difficult to establish and have aroused deep controversy. Annika Mombauer tracks the impassioned debates as they developed at critical points through the twentieth century. The book focuses on the controversy itself, rather than the specific events leading up to the war. Emotive and emotional from the very beginning of the conflict, the debate and the passions aroused in response to such issues as the ‘war-guilt paragraph’ of the treaty of Versailles, are set in the context of the times in which they were proposed. Similarly, the argument has been fuelled by concerns over the sacrifices that were made and the casualities that were suffered. Were they really justified?
Rewriting the First World War
Author: Andrew Suttie
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-12-16
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0230505597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book assesses Lloyd George's attempt to shape the history of 1914-18 through his War Memoirs. His account of the British conduct of the war focused on the generals' incompetence, their obsession with the Western Front, and their refusal to consider alternatives to the costly trench warfare in France and Belgium. Yet as War Minister and Prime Minister Lloyd George presided over the bloody offensives of 1916-17, and had earlier taken a leading role in mobilising industrial resources to provide the weapons which made them possible. Rewriting the First World War examines how Lloyd George addressed this paradox.
The British Home Front and the First World War
Author: Hew Strachan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-03-31
Total Pages: 707
ISBN-13: 1316515494
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fullest account yet of the British home front in the First World War and how war changed Britain forever.
For King and Country
Author: Heather Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-23
Total Pages: 591
ISBN-13: 1108682960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to consolidate the crown's sacralised status. She looks at how the monarchy engaged with war recruitment, bereavement, gender norms, as well as at its political and military powers and its relationship with Ireland and the empire. She considers the role that monarchism played in military culture and examines royal visits to the front, as well as the monarchy's role in home front morale and in interwar war commemoration. Her findings suggest that the rise of republicanism in wartime Britain has been overestimated and that war commemoration was central to the monarchy's revered interwar status up to the abdication crisis.
The British Imperial Army in the Middle East
Author: James E. Kitchen
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-16
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 147251131X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The First World War has often been understood in terms of the combat experiences of soldiers on the Western Front; those combatants who served in the other theatres of the war have been neglected. Using personal testimonies, official documentation and detailed research from a diverse range of archives, The British Imperial Army in the Middle East explores the combat experiences of these soldiers. The army that fought the Ottoman Empire was a multinational and multi-ethnic force, drawing personnel from across Britain's empire, including Australia, New Zealand, and India. By taking a transnational and imperial perspective on the First World War, this book ensures that the campaigns in Egypt and Palestine are considered in the wider context of an empire mobilised to fight a total and global war.
