First World War Books
Army Records Society First World War Diary of Noël Drury, 6th Royal
Book SynopsisThe diary of an officer in the 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers covering 1914-19 and four theatres of war. Noël Drury (1884-1975) was from a middle-class Dublin Protestant family and served most of the First World War as an officer in the 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the 10th (Irish) Division. The division was the first of Ireland's wartime volunteer formations to be posted overseas, arriving at Gallipoli in August 1915 in the Suvla Bay landings. Drury and his battalion experienced several key phases of the Gallipoli campaign before being redeployed to Salonika in October 1915. Drury was away from his battalion for a year in 1916-17 suffering from malaria, but rejoined in Palestine towards the end of 1917. From there his battalion was sent to the Western Front in the summer of 1918 to take part in the Hundred Days Offensive. Drury's diaries describe training, daily life, contrasting theatres of the war, and show what it meant to be an Irish officer in the British army.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Volunteering and Training, September 1914-July 1915 2 The Voyage to the Dardanelles, July-August 1915 3 Gallipoli: Landing at Suvla Bay and the Next Ten Days, 7-17 August 1915 4 Gallipoli: Digging In, 18 August-October 1915 5 The Serbian Front and the Battle of Kosturino, October-December 1915 6 The Salonika Front and Hospital, December 1915-September 1917 7 Egypt and Palestine, September-December 1917 8 Defending Jerusalem and the Battle of Tell 'Asur, December 1917-July 1918 9 France, July-11 November 1918 10 Armistice, 12 November 1918-11 March 1919 Appendices Biographies Bibliography Index
£67.50
Liverpool University Press Intellectual Response to the First World War: How
Book SynopsisThe First World War changed the dynamics of the European intellectual landscape in terms of international collaboration, the development of disciplines and new institutional visions. The conflict not only destroyed much of Europe's material cultural heritage, it also damaged the 19th-century humanist conception of the function of thought and problematised the position of the thinker in society. What is the intellectuals task in a time of destruction and death? This book spotlights the ways in which the war redrew the map of knowledge production and changed traditional paradigms, fundamentally altering the approach to intellectual work. Thinking became more democratic and specialised, with a range of voices tackling specific problems created by the war, but now more conspicuously related to particular causes. The focus on the viewpoints of the 1914-1918 intellectual cadre throws into perspective the ways in which the war changed the contents, methods and organisation of intellectual work. Part One looks at the war as an object of study; Part Two explores the methodological challenges the war entailed; and Part Three sheds light on the ways in which the conflict and its aftermath redrew the map of collaborative intellectual networks. The case-studies come from different disciplines and cover a range of contexts, from German engineering to British wartime periodicals. Revisiting the early 20th-century intellectual situation not only enriches our understanding of the dynamics of the Great War, it also assists in repositioning the role of the intellectual in the 21st century.
£100.00
Liverpool University Press Friends in Flanders: Humanitarian Aid
Book SynopsisThe Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU) was created shortly after the outbreak of war. The idea of the unit's founder, Philip J. Baker, was that it would provide young Friends (Quakers) with the opportunity to serve their country without sacrificing their pacifist principles. The first volunteers went to Belgium on 31 October 1914, under the auspices of the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem. The FAU made a sustained contribution to the military medical services of the Allied nations, establishing military hospitals, running ambulance convoys, and staffing hospital ships and ambulance trains, treating and transporting wounded men. Determined to bring succour to all those in need, the FAU also assisted civilians trapped in the war zone and living in desperate circumstances. Nowhere was this more acute than in the besieged and battered town of Ypres where thousands sheltered in the underground passage-ways of the towns ancient fortifications -- a subterranean population, 'hopeless, often lightless,' wrote Geoffrey Young, the Units young field commander, living on what they might and breeding disease. The Unit provided hospitals for the treatment of civilians, and worked intensively in the containment and treatment of the typhoid epidemic that swept the region, locating sufferers, providing them with medical care, and inoculating people against the disease. It played a major role in the purification of the town's contaminated drinking water, distributed milk for infants and food and clothing to the sick and needy. It helped found orphanages, made provision for schooling and organised gainful employment for refugees until, finally, it became responsible for the definitive evacuations of the civilian population.
£29.95
Liverpool University Press The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War
Book SynopsisThe First World War saw almost 100,000 German Jews wear the uniform of the Imperial army; some 12,000 of these soldiers lost their lives in battle. Over the last century, public memory of their sacrifice has been very gradually subsumed into the much greater catastrophe of the Holocaust. This book focuses on the multifaceted ways in which these Jewish soldiers have variously been remembered and forgotten from 1914 through until the late 1970s. During and immediately after the conflict, Germany’s Jewish population were active participants in a memory culture that honoured the war dead as national heroes. With the decline of the Weimar Republic and the National Socialists’ rise to power, however, the public commemoration of the Jewish soldiers gradually faded, as Germany’s Jewish communities were systematically destroyed by the Nazi regime. It was only in the late 1950s that both Jews and other Germans began to rediscover and to re-remember this largely neglected group. By examining Germany’s complex and continually evolving memory culture, this book opens up a new approach to the study of both German and German-Jewish history. In doing so, it draws out a narrative of entangled and overlapping relations between Jews and non-Jews during the short twentieth century. The Jewish / non-Jewish relationship, the book argues, did not end on the battlefields of the First World War, but ran much deeper to extend through into the era of the Cold War.Trade ReviewA fine addition to our understanding of German Jewish history in the period of the First World War and in its aftermath, full of clearly written and interesting detail and impressive research. Jay WinterGrady’s book presents many illuminating examples and carefully chosen quotations. The six chapters are clearly structured and draw upon a broad base of original source material, including newspapers, personal memoirs, and official documents from communal archives. Matthias Hambrock, The American Historical Review, vol 117, no 5In his study, Grady has provided a commendable contribution to the history of the Jewish war veterans in Germany, in particular during the interwar years. He illustrates the opinions of both non-Jewish Germans towards their Jewish fellow-citizens as well as Jewish interpretations of their own position in contemporary German history. Klaus-Peter Friedrich, Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft, 61 Jahrgan, Heft 4This is a thought-provoking book. Many readers will remember their fathers’ participation in the First World War and the medals they earned and wore with pride. Alas, although they had hoped that these medals would protect them once the Nazis came to power, this was not to be. I should add that this book is written entirely with West Germany in mind. In East Germany (the DDR), where culpability for the Nazi crimes was never acknowledged, it would have been a very different story.Leslie Baruch Brent, Association of Jewish Refugees, Volume 12, No. 2Table of Contents List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Dying: War, Mutilation and Mass Death, 1914-1918 2. Mourning: Defeat, Revolution and Memorialisation, 1918-1923 3. Commemorating: War Veterans, Ritual and Remembrance, 1923-1929 4. Forgetting: Nazism, Front Fighters and Destruction, 1929-1945 5. Discovering: War Victims, War Crimes and Reconstruction, 1945-1960 6. Embracing: The Growth of Holocaust Awareness and Acknowledgement of the Jewish Soldiers, 1960-1980 Conclusion Bibliography Index
£27.99
Liverpool University Press Pubs and Patriots: The Drink Crisis in Britain
Book SynopsisIn the midst of the First World War concern arose as to the virtues of pursuing intoxication at a time of national emergency. As the military front was supposedly let down by drinkers and shirkers at home, attention quickly turned to British drinking practices. Britain, it seemed, was under the duress of a widespread addiction to boozing. When prohibition was deemed too extreme to contemplate, and nationalisation too impractical, the government created an organisation known as the Central Control Board (CCB). This body soon set about reforming the drinking habits of a nation. Loved by a few, but disliked by most, this group was responsible for the most radical and unique experiment in alcohol control ever conducted in Britain. The story of the CCB, how and why it was formed, its history and its legacy upon the British war effort are told within Pubs and Patriots: The Drink Crisis in Britain during World War One.Trade ReviewA well-written, interesting and authoritative account, based upon some strong historical research ... [that] adds to our understanding both of the drink question in the twentieth century and of our knowledge of the First World War. John GreenawayOne feels certain that comprehensive, richly detailed, and tightly focused works such as Duncan’s Pubs and Patriots will one day enable somebody to accomplish that long awaited feat. Peter Hynd, Histoire sociale / Social HistoryTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Tale of Temperance and Drink 1870–1914 2. Vodka, Absinthe and Drunkenness on Britain’s Streets in 1914: A Tale of Fear and Exaggeration? 3. Best Laid Plans? Lloyd George and the Drink Question 4. Restrictive or Constructive? The Early Stages of the Central Control Board 5. The Carlisle Experiment: Lord D’Abernon’s ‘Model Farm’ 6. ‘Helping our weaker sisters to go straight’: Women and Drink during the War 7. Reforming the Working Man 8. State Purchase and the Waning of the Central Control Board Conclusion: The End of the Central Control Board Bibliography Index
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Historic England Legacies of the First World War: Building for
Book SynopsisThe First World War has been described as the first total war, a conflict in which a country’s people and resources were harnessed towards final victory. During 2014-18 Historic England set out to uncover and study the physical remains left across England by the First World War. The range of what was discovered is astonishing, reflecting how the home front became as important as the battlefront. It was the place to train and equip new armies, to manufacture armaments, to treat the wounded and to grow more food. As millions of men joined the armed forces, women entered the workforce in munitions factories, as tram and bus conductresses and as farm workers. Archaeological remains can be found of practice trench lines, munitions works, government factories, army and PoW camps, airfields and airship stations. But England was also drawn into the fighting as German warships and submarines bombarded coastal towns, and Zeppelin airships and later bomber aircraft brought death from the sky. The threat of invasion saw the construction of defences down the east and south coasts. Ships and smaller vessels were lost to mines, torpedoes and gunfire, and on the sea bed work is beginning to explore the wrecks from this almost forgotten battlefield. A century later many traces of this great endeavour survive. This new book brings together these discoveries and helps to mark the contribution and sacrifice not only of those who served in the armed forces, but also of those who provided support, in myriad ways, on the home front. Trade Review'In this superbly produced book, experts from Historic England have used a variety of tools to locate, identify and document physical evidence of the conflict. The result is remarkable and represents a definitive guide to most of what is left. Beautifully reproduced photographs are accompanied by explanatory text to provide a full explanation of each site and context... This book stands out as truly exceptional.' Phil Curme, The Western Front Association'This is an outstanding and distinguished centennial contribution to World War I studies, of which the editors, contributors and the publishers... can all be justifiably proud. Handsomely and profusely illustrated, it portrays in immense detail the hugely significant but all-too-often overlooked homeland background to a war.' Geoffrey Stell, Industrial Archaeology ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction - Sir Hew Strachan 2. The army - Peter Kendall 3. The naval war - Serena Cant and Mark Dunkley 4. Defending the coast - Paul Pattison and Roger J C Thomas 5. The aerial war - Jeremy Lake 6. The workshop of the world goes to war - Wayne Cocroft 7. Civic and civilian architecture - Katie Carmichael 8. Feeding the nation - Paul Stamper 9. Back to Blighty: British war hospitals, 1914–18 – Kathryn A Morrison 10. Remembering the dead - Roger Bowdler 11. Epilogue - Wayne Cocroft and Paul Stamper
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Historic England Britain's Railways in Wartime
Book SynopsisIn the long and absorbing history of Britain's railways and the men and women who have worked on them, the most challenging years were those of the two world wars. Neither of these wars could have been won without the railways. Transportation of everything that was grown, made or mined, as well as soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians was largely the task of the railways. Yet the contribution of railways, and railway men and women in wartime has often been overlooked. This book pays tribute to the way the railways and their staff responded to the demand that they do more with fewer resources. They were called upon to cope with the extraordinary change in the character and volume of passenger and goods traffic, to endure dangerously long hours, and to overcome fear. Small wayside stations could be transformed into a frenzy of activity by the location of a camp or supply depot on its doorstep. Disruption through bomb damage could turn the shift of locomotive crew or guard into an indefinite wait for relief. The railway companies built many and various memorials to honour their fallen workers - these monuments, created and designed by high-calibre sculptors and architects, are included within the book's gazetteer. The book inevitably includes many statistics as well as dates, but it is impossible to comprehend the magnitude of the railway's contribution to the wars without them. The focus is on the railways of Britain, but sketches of the overseas theatres give some idea of the work of railway construction and operating companies, which were largely made up of railwaymen.Trade ReviewReviews'Books about the railways' work in the World Wars usually deal with just one of them: this covers both, yet it encompasses remarkable detail [...] Despite this volume's relatively small size, it conveys brilliantly the sacrifices made by our railways in text and well-chosen illustrations: warmly recommended.' Philip Scowcroft, Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical SocietyTable of ContentsTo follow
£55.00
Bodleian Library From Downing Street to the Trenches: First-hand
Book SynopsisWhy did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly over the Somme battlefield? How could a trench on the front line be ‘the safest place’? These compelling eye-witness accounts convey what it was really like to experience the first two years of the war up until the fall of Asquith’s government, without the benefit of hindsight or the accumulated wisdom of a hundred years of discussion and writing. Using the rich manuscript resources of the Bodleian Libraries, the book features key extracts from letters and diaries of members of the Cabinet, academic and literary figures, student soldiers and a village rector. The letters of politicians reveal the strain of war leadership and throw light on the downfall of Asquith in 1916, while the experiences of the young Harold Macmillan in the trenches, vividly described in letters home, marked the beginning of his road to Downing Street. It was forbidden to record Cabinet discussions, but Lewis Harcourt’s unauthorised diary provides a window on Asquith’s government, complete with character sketches of some of the leading players, including Winston Churchill. Meanwhile, in one Essex village, the local rector compiled a diary to record the impact of war on his community. These fascinating contemporary papers paint a highly personal and immediate picture of the war as it happened. Fear, anger, death and sorrow are always present, but so too are idealism, excitement, humour, boredom and even beauty.
£11.78
Bodleian Library The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!: Advertisements
Book SynopsisFountain-Pens - The Super-Pen for Our Super-Men Ladies! Learn To Drive! Your Country Needs Women Drivers! Do you drink German water? When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, companies wasted no time in seizing the commercial opportunities presented by the conflict. There was no radio or television. The only way in which the British public could get war news was through newspapers and magazines, many of which recorded rising readerships. Advertising became a new science of sales, growing increasingly sophisticated both in visual terms and in its psychological approach. This collection of pictorial advertisements from the Great War reveals how advertisers were given the opportunity to create new markets for their products and how advertising reflected social change during the course of the conflict. It covers a wide range of products, including trench coats, motor-cycles, gramophones, cigarettes and invalid carriages, all bringing an insight into the preoccupations, aspirations and necessities of life between 1914 and 1918. Many advertisements were aimed at women, be it for guard-dogs to protect them while their husbands were away, or soap and skin cream for ‘beauty on duty’. At the same time, men’s tailoring evolved to suit new conditions. Aquascutum advertised ‘Officers’ Waterproof Trench Coats’ and one officer, writing in the Times in December 1914, advised others to leave their swords behind but to take their Burberry coat. Sandwiched between the formality of the Victorian era and the hedonism of the 1920s, these charged images provide unexpected sources of historical information, affording an intimate glimpse into the emotional life of the nation during the First World War.
£6.93
Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies Canadian Battlefields of the First World War: A
Book SynopsisThis revised guide to the Canadian battlefields of the First World War in France and Belgium offers a brief, critical history of the war and of Canada's contribution, drawing attention to the best recent books on the subject. It focuses on the Ypres Salient, Passchendaele, Vimy, and the "Hundred Days" battles and considers lesser-known battlefields as well. Battle maps, contemporary maps, photographs, war art, and tourist information enhance the reader experience. In addition to its new look, this second edition features new photographs, maps, and a more-detailed history section. A new "Walking the Battlefields" feature allows visitors to follow the path of Canadian troops as they fought at Ypres, the St. Eloi Craters, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, and Bourlon Wood through detailed maps and unit-level text. The tour sections and references have also been updated to reflect recent developments in writing about the Great War in Canada. The Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies (LCMSDS) at Wilfrid Laurier University exists to foster research, education, and discussion of historical and contemporary conflict. This publication was generously funded by John and Pattie Cleghorn.Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Canadian Battlefields of the First World War: A Visitor's Guide by Terry Copp, Mark Humphries, Nick Lachance, Caitlin McWilliams, and Matt Symes Preface to the Second Edition HISTORY Canada at War England and France 1915 Flanders Fields 1915-1916 Festubert adn Givenchy St. Eloi Craters 1916 Mount Sorrel 1916 The Somme Vimy and the Arras Offensive Passchendaele 1917 Cambrai 1917 The German Spring Offensive 1918 The Battle of Amiens The Hundred Days: Arras to Mons 1918 TOUR Notes on Battlefield Touring Touring Flanders Walking the Battlefields: Kitchener's Wood Touring the Somme Walking the Battlefields: Desire Trench Touring Vimy Walking the Battlefields: 3rd Division at Vimy Ridge Touring Passchendaele Touring Amiens Touring Arras and Cambrai Walking the Battlefields: Bourlon Wood Touring Valenciennes to Mons APPENDICES Official First World War Canadian Memorials Online Resources and Image Credits
£23.36
Massachusetts Historical Society Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country:
Book SynopsisIn August 1918 a Massachusetts-born woman named Margaret Hall boarded a transport ship in New York City that would take her across the Atlantic to work with the American Red Cross in France, then in the devastating grips of the First World War. Working at a canteen at a railroad junction close to the Western Front, Hall aided soldiers from both Allied and Axis nations. While there she was regularly forced to seek shelter from German bombardments. After the Armistice, Hall explored the destruction of the surrounding region; her diary entries, letters, and photos reveal a world of ruins and human remains.After Hall returned to the United States, she wrote a memoir that she shared privately with friends and family. Published here for the first time, Hall’s words offer a first-hand account of life on the Western Front in those last months of the war and its immediate aftermath. Balancing her deeply held convictions about the horror of this conflict with both wry humor and a sense of urgency, Hall’s narrative gives the reader an unusually immediate and individualized testimony, one that rivals those of similar but better-known war memoirs, such as those by Vera Brittain and Edith Wharton.The book features dozens of Hall’s striking and never-before-published photographs, including of the movement of troops through town, women working just behind the front lines, and the landscape left when the war was “over.” The pairing of Hall’s remarkable images with her vivid reporting results in an invaluable, and uniquely personal, account of one of the most cataclysmic events in history.
£26.96
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. Stories They Told Me – The Life of My Deaf
Book SynopsisIn this heartfelt memoir, Maria Wallisfurth recounts the lives of her deaf parents in Germany from the turn of the twentieth century through World War II. Her mother, Maria Giefer, was born in 1897 and her father, Wilhelm Sistermann, was born in 1896. The author captures the seasonal rhythms and family life of her mother's youth in rural Germany, a time filled as much with hardship as it is with love. When she is old enough, she moves to the nearby city of Aachen to attend a school for deaf children, where she learns to lipread and speak. After her schooling is complete, she returns home to work on the family farm and experiences the privations and fear that accompany World War I. She later goes back to Aachen, where she joins a deaf club and falls in love with Wilhelm, a painter and photographer who was raised in the city. Amidst high unemployment, food shortages, and rapid inflation, the two are married in 1925 and two years later the author is born. Under the Nazi regime, Maria and Wilhelm are ordered to undergo forced sterilization. Although their deafness is not hereditary and they submit applications of protest, they are compelled to comply with the law. Despite their dissimilar backgrounds and the political circumstances that roiled their lives, the author's parents showed great love for each other and their only daughter. The Stories They Told Me is a richly detailed document of time and place and a rare account of deaf lives during this era.
£28.00
Rutgers University Press German Ways of War: The Affective Geographies and
Book SynopsisGerman Ways of War deploys theories of space, mobility, and affect to investigate how war films realize their political projects. Analyzing films across the decades, from the 1910s to 2000s, German Ways of War addresses an important lacuna in media studies: while scholars have tended to focus on the similarities between cinematic looking and weaponized targeting -- between shooting a camera and discharging a gun – this book argues that war films negotiate spaces throughout that frame their violence in ways more revealing than their battle scenes. Beyond that well-known intersection of visuality and violence, German Ways of War explores how the genre frames violence within spatio-affective operations. The production of novel spaces and evocation of new affects transform war films, including the genre’s manipulation of mobility, landscape, territory, scales, and topological networks. Such effects amount to what author Jaimey Fisher terms the films’ “affective geographies” that interweave narrative-generated affects, spatial depictions, and political processes. Trade Review"German Ways of War is an engaging text that charts out a captivating genre history that extends far beyond its immediate scope of German War films. The book is written as a fascinating account to how warfare changed in the twentieth century. . . The project is meticulously researched and provides invaluable political, historical, and legal documentation regarding war and peace policies in Germany." -- Nora M. Alter * author of Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema 1967-2000 *"This original study of exemplary German features probes essential dimensions of war cinema that have received little scholarly attention, its geopolitical determinations, spatial imaginaries, and affective geographies. A major contribution to film history and media studies, German Ways of War offers a comprehensive analysis of the numerous countenances and different functions this generic possibility has assumed in exemplary German productions from World War I to the postmillennial era.” -- Eric Rentschler * author of The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present *"German Ways of War is an engaging text that charts out a captivating genre history that extends far beyond its immediate scope of German War films. The book is written as a fascinating account to how warfare changed in the twentieth century. . . The project is meticulously researched and provides invaluable political, historical, and legal documentation regarding war and peace policies in Germany." -- Nora M. Alter * author of Projecting History: German Nonfiction Cinema 1967-2000 *"This original study of exemplary German features probes essential dimensions of war cinema that have received little scholarly attention, its geopolitical determinations, spatial imaginaries, and affective geographies. A major contribution to film history and media studies, German Ways of War offers a comprehensive analysis of the numerous countenances and different functions this generic possibility has assumed in exemplary German productions from World War I to the postmillennial era.” -- Eric Rentschler * author of The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films, 1910s-2000s2. Land into Landscape, Landscape into Territory: Transformations of Space in German War Cinema, 1914-1918 (The Diary of Dr. Hart, Sword and Hearth, Inexpiable)3. “Landscapes of Death” and Memories of the Human: Distance, Scale, and the Double Map in the First “War-Sound-Film” (Westfront 1918, Kameradschaft)4. Combat Films and their Aerial Spaces under the Nazi Regime (Medal of Honor, Squadron Lützow, Above Everything in the World)5. Out of the War Mode: Demobilizing the War Genre in the Postwar Rubble-Film (Request Concert [1940], The Great Love, Ways into Twilight, The Sons of Mr. Gaspary, Birds of Migration)6. War in the Reconstructive 1950s: Genre, Espionage, and Cold-War Subjectivities in the 1950s War Film (Canaris, Fox of Paris, Rommel Calls Cairo)7. Conclusion: Affective Geographies of the Fading Genre (Das Boot, Downfall)NotesBibliography Index
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De Gruyter The Road to Ukraine: How the West Lost its Way
Book SynopsisRussia’s invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their origins in World War One. The difficult existential questions that emerged before and during this conflict still remain unresolved. Contrary to the claim that wars are not supposed to happen in Europe or that we live in the era of the End of History, the experience of Ukraine highlights the salience of the spell of the past. The failure of the West to take its past seriously has left it confused and unprepared to deal with the current crisis. Unexpectedly fashionable claims about the irrelevance of borders and of nation states have been exposed as shallow myths. The author argues that the West’s self-inflicted condition of historical amnesia has encouraged it to disregard the salience of geo-political realities. Suddenly the once fashionable claims that made up the virtues of globalisation appear threadbare. This problem, which was already evident during the global Covid pandemic has reached a crisis point in the battlefield of Ukraine. History has had its revenge on a culture that believes that what happened in the past no longer matters. The Road To Ukraine: How the West Lost Its Way argues that overcoming the state of historical amnesia is the precondition for the restoration of global solidarity.
£21.38
Campus Verlag The East Asian Dimension of the First World War:
Book SynopsisThough when people discuss World War I, they usually center on the fighting in Europe, it truly was a global war. This book examines the role of East Asia in the conflict. It looks at how East Asian commentators saw and interpreted the war, both in Europe and elsewhere, and what lessons they drew from the experience for their own societies. What influence did World War I have on East Asian visions of the world order? Presenting scholarship by a number of East Asian authors in English for the first time, the book greatly expands our understanding of World War I and its effects.
£38.00
Campus Verlag Traces of Modernism – Art and Politics from the
Book SynopsisTraces of Modernism surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributors consider an extensive range of philosophical and artistic ideologies—from Bauhaus and Italian futurism to plans for totalitarian state-building—that bloomed in the wake of the World War One and the ensuing worldwide revolutions. These ideologies developed amid the uneasy backdrop of new kinds of international cooperation that were periodically punctuated by sharp bursts of fervid nationalism. At the center of each essay in Traces of Modernism stands the image of the machine, a metaphor for technological innovation and new systems of order that stood unfortunately ready for corruption by forces of authoritarianism.
£52.25
Leiden University Press Jihad and Islam in World War I: Studies on the
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Penguin Putnam Inc Testament of Youth
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Nicholas Paul Metcalfe Blackers Boys 9th Service Battalion Princess Victorias Royal Irish Fusiliers County Armagh 19141919
Book SynopsisBlacker's Boys tells the First World War history of the 9th (Service) Battalion, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) (County Armagh). One of the finest infantry battalions of 36th (Ulster) Division, it fought at the Battles of the Somme, Third Ypres and Cambrai, in the German offensive in 1918 and in the Advance to Victory.Trade Review'I cannot praise this work enough, it must form a great example for others to follow. I suggest that everyone gets a copy, particularly those interested in Ulster in the Great War.' (Bob Wyatt - Stand To! The Journal of the Western Front Association.) '...a worthy tribute to the men and 'boys' who answered Kitchener's call...' (Iain Frazer, grandson of Corporal David Frazer.) 'Blacker's Boys is a mighty achievement.' (Phillip Tardif author of The North Irish Horse in the Great War.)
£33.24
Magic Flute Publishing Ltd Wolverton During the First World War: 1
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Magic Flute Publishing Ltd Bletchley During the First World War
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Aviation Books Ltd. Royal Air Force and Australian Flying Corps Squadron Losses: 1st April - 30th June 1918
£25.07
Aviation Books Ltd. Royal Air Force and Australian Flying Corps Squadron Losses: 1st July - 11th November 1918
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Aviation Books Ltd. Royal Air Force & Australian Flying Corps Squadron Losses 12th November 1918 - 31st December 1920
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Honeybee Books In Search of Honour
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Editorial Periferica Testamento de Juventud
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Oxford University Press Inc Colonel House
Book SynopsisA man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M. House is little known or remembered today; yet he was one of the most influential figures of the Wilson presidency. Wilson''s chief political advisor, House played a key role in international diplomacy, and had a significant hand in crafting the Fourteen Points at the Paris Peace Conference. Though the intimate friendship between the president and his advisor ultimately unraveled in the wake of these negotiations, House''s role in the Wilson administration had a lasting impact on 20th century international politics. In this seminal biography, Charles E. Neu details the life of Colonel House, a Texas landowner who rose to become one of the century''s greatest political operators. Ambitious and persuasive, House worked largely behind the scenes, developing ties of loyalty and using patronage to rally party workers behind his candidates. In 1911 he met Woodrow Wilson, and almost immediately the two formed what would become one of tTrade ReviewNeu has used House's diary and other papers to craft a remarkably vivid account of the political operator's life... Neu's engrossing narrative has such immediacy that readers share House's hurt and disappointment when Wilson abruptly ended their close friendship... A significant, brightly written American story. * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *Colonel House is an enduring analysis of one of the most complicated and important power relationships in American history, indeed in world history. This is a monumental work that stand the test of time. * Samuel R. Williamson, author of Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War *A wonderful book and gripping all the way through. Charles Neu has done a splendid job. * Larry McMurtry, author of The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove *Charles Neu's long-anticipated biography of Colonel Edward House is a major achievement that has been worth the wait. The research is exhaustive. The analysis and evaluations are judicious, fully persuasive. The portraits of personalities and depictions of diplomatic vignettes are vivid. Neu's assessment of the U.S. political scene and the international relations of the Woodrow Wilson era is far-ranging and impressive. Readers now have available a comprehensive and enthralling study of one of the commanding figures in twentieth-century American history. * David Mayers, Boston University, author of FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis *At long last, Edward M. House has found the biographer he deserves. Charles Neu employs a sharply critical eye in winnowing fact from fantasy about the man whom contemporaries could call both America's 'finest diplomatic brain' and 'that devious son of a bitch.' * John Cooper, author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography *A powerful and fascinating biography of a powerful man. Colonel House and Woodrow Wilson were unlikely partners, but they shared an interest in American politics in an era in which the United States was emerging as a world power. A great read for cold winter nights or a day at the beach. * Lou Galambos, Professor of History and Editor of the Eisenhower Papers, Johns Hopkins University *Neu has written a detailed, well-researched, definitive biography of House. Although other works have been written about House and Wilson, this book combines their lives into one volume (with the focus on House and his place in history) and affirms the important role of Texas politicians and leaders in the history of the United States. * Janet Schmelzer, Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsPROLOGUE: A Great Adventure ; PART I. THE TEXAS YEARS, 1858-1912 ; 1. A Spacious Youth. ; 2. Search For A Career. ; 3. The Challenge Of Texas Politics. ; 4. The <"Twilight Years.>" ; 5. <"The Man And The Opportunity.>" ; 6. The Ideal Society. ; PART II. WILSON IN POWER, 1913-1914 ; 7. The Making of Wilson's Cabinet ; 8. Foreign Horizons. ; 9. The New Freedom. ; 10. Reform and Intervention. ; 11. <"The Great Adventure.>" ; PART III. THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1917 ; 12. America And World War I. ; 13. The Search For Peace. ; 14. London, Berlin, Paris. ; 15. Return To London. ; 16. American Interlude. ; 17. The Lure Of Peace. ; 18. The House-Grey Memorandum. ; 19. The Failure Of Peace. ; 20. Presidential Politics. ; 21. Re-election And The Plea For Peace. ; 22. America Goes To War. ; PART IV. AMERICA AT WAR, 1917-1918 ; 23. America Prepares For War. ; 24. The Strains Of Coalition Warfare. ; 25. Envoy To The Allies. ; 26. Crises At Home And Abroad. ; 27. The Turning Point. ; 28. The End Of The War. ; PART V. PEACEMAKING, 1919-1920 ; 29. Waiting for the Peace Conference. ; 30. The Peace Conference, I. ; 31. The Peace Conference, II. ; 32. The Fight For The League. ; PART VI. ELDER STATESMAN, 1921-1938 ; 33. The End Of The Wilson Era. ; 34. New Beginnings. ; 35. Marking Time. ; 36. Victory At Last. ; 37. The Crisis Of The 1930s. ; EPILOGUE: Crossing the River.
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