First World War Books
George F. Thompson Honoring the Doughboys: Following My
Book SynopsisHonoring the Doughboys: Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary is a stunning presentation of contemporary photographs taken by the author that are paired with diary entries written by his grandfather, George A. Carlson, who was a soldier in the U.S. Army during World War I. Lowdermilk followed his grandfather's path through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany and returned with these meticulously crafted photographs and his own engaging stories that bring the diary to life for contemporary readers. Lowdermilk's passion for World War I and military history began as a young boy when he listened to his grandfather tell his stories about serving as an infantryman— a "doughboy"—in Europe during the Great War. When his grandfather passed away in 1983, Lowdermilk's mother gave him her father's diary, which included not only lengthy descriptions of the landscapes, towns, and battles he had experienced, but also keen observations and insights about life as a doughboy for Mr. Carlson and his buddies. Lowdermilk became fascinated with the diary, first transcribing it and then plotting his grandfather's course. He immersed himself in the history of World War I and its geography, eventually retracing, more than a dozen years, the path of his grandfather's journey. This image-rich tour of European landscapes, battlefields, and monuments offers the reader an experience that is at once an intimate reliving of Carlson's time as a doughboy, a lively collection of Lowdermilk's travel anecdotes, and a moving expression of gratitude to American veterans of the Great War. The foreword by Helen Patton, granddaughter of General George S. Patton, Jr., adds an extra dimension to the narrative. ** Nominated for a 2015 IPPY Award" from the Independent Publishers Association **
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Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Faithful to Our Tasks: Arkansas's Women and the
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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 PresentTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Affective Geographies and Generic Transformations of German War Films, 1910s-2000s 2. 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) Notes Bibliography Index
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Penguin Putnam Inc Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood,
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Academie Des Inscriptions Et Belles Lettres Visite Sur Les Trois Fronts
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Academie Des Inscriptions Et Belles Lettres La France En Guerre
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Musique Et Musiciens a Paris
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Editions Heimdal Les Troupes d'Assaut De l'Armée Allemande:
Book SynopsisAprès Landser, Ordre Noir et Deutsche Luftwaffe, voici un nouveau livre de la même collection sur les troupes de choc de la Première Guerre mondiale. Les premières unités d'assaut (Sturmtruppen) ont été formées au cours du printemps et de l'été de 1916, quand le Sturmbataillon Rohr a été organisé et après que le général Falkenhayn, chef de la Ligue de l'Ontario, a donné les ordres pour la création de détachements spéciaux. Ces détachements avaient pour mission de répandre une nouvelle tactique qui a transformé de manières décisive les méthodes de combats de l’armée allemande. Mais bien avant cela, un autre type de troupes avait été crée au sein de l’infanterie allemande au cours de l’hiver 1914-1915 : les troupes de choc (Stosstruppen), des groupes d’infanterie qui n’ont jamais été officiellement reconnus comme tels et n’ayant jamais appartenu à une unité permanente, mais qui sont restés actifs jusqu’à la fin de la guerre et qui ont contribué à l’amélioration de la capacité offensive de l’infanterie allemande. Ce livre est un récit de l’histoire des troupes d’assaut et il couvre leurs méthodes de combat. Il propose une description complète de leurs uniformes, de leur équipement, leurs armes, avec un grand nombre d’illustrations et de photographies d’époque rarement vues.
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Editions Heimdal L’Inexorable DéFaite: Mai-Juin 1940
Book Synopsis11 novembre 1918. La victoire inachevée… La France croit avoir gagné la guerre, elle n’a gagné qu’une paix précaire. Ce constat dramatique est le point de départ d’un long chemin de croix qui va mener inexorablement le pays, vers le dénouement de juin 1940. Au fil des stations de ce chemin de croix, la France, en totale contradiction entre sa politique étrangère et sa politique de défense, va aller de désillusions en démissions, sans jamais prendre conscience qu’elle n’avait pas ou ne s’est pas donné les moyens de ses ambitions. La déception du Traité de Versailles, l’arrogance des années d’occupation en Rhénanie, l’illusion du pacte de Locarno, le choix de la défensive alors qu’elle a accordé sa garantie à de nombreux pays avec lesquels elle n’a aucune frontière commune, la passivité face à la montée en puissance allemande, le manque de réaction suite à la neutralité belge, la démission de Munich, tout cela ne pouvait que conduire à une entrée en guerre mal préparée et mal gérée. Lorsque le 10 mai 1940, l’Allemagne donne le coup d’envoi des opérations à l’ouest, l’armée française va accumuler les maladresses, amplifiant malgré elle les succès allemands. Pris dans le tourbillon de la fulgurante percée allemande, le commandement n’aura à aucun moment la possibilité d’inverser le cours des événements et les nouvelles calamiteuses vont s’enchaîner telle une tragédie grecque. Après quarante-cinq jours de combat au cours desquels l’héroïsme le dispute à la lâcheté, le courage aux défaillances, la France arrive au terme de son calvaire. Ce sont les causes de cette inexorable défaite, des plus évidentes aux plus insoupçonnées, que ce livre se propose d’analyser point par point.
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Bohlau Verlag Die k. u. k. Donauflottille im Ersten Weltkrieg:
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Bohlau Verlag Gedächtnisort der Republik: Das Österreichische
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Heimatfront' - Graz Und Das Kronland Steiermark
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Bohlau Verlag Mit der S.M.S. Kaiserin Elisabeth in Ostasien:
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Bohlau Verlag Grauzone: Sir Edward Grey und der Ausbruch des
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Bohlau Verlag Schweizer Kriegsnothilfe Im Ersten Weltkrieg:
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Harrassowitz America Sings of War: American Sheet Music from
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Harrassowitz The Ottoman Empire in World War I
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Harrassowitz The Greeks in the Ottoman Empire 1913-1923: Their
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Harrassowitz Gallipoli 1915. the War in the Southeast 1
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Harrassowitz Macedonia 1915-1918. the War in the Southeast 2
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Harrassowitz The Turkish Straits in International Politics
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Brill U Schoningh War and Memorials: The Age of Nationalism and the
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Brill Schoningh War and Memorials: The Second World War and
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Brill Schoningh Science Embattled: Eastern European Intellectuals
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Brill U Schoningh Griff Nach Der Psyche?: Psychologie Im Ersten
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Mission Und Dekoloniale Perspektive: Der Erste
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Transatlantische Brieffreunde: Die Korrespondenz
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Predigt im Ersten Weltkrieg: La prédication
Book SynopsisKriegspredigten aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg sind ein Forschungsfeld, das wenig bearbeitet wurde. Der Sammelband leistet einen Beitrag dazu, diese Forschungslücke zu füllen und untersucht Predigten und ebenso Lieder der Jahre 1914 bis 1918 in historischer und theologischer Perspektive. Evangelische Predigten des Elsass rücken in den Forschungsfokus, der durch die Einbeziehung von Kriegspredigten aus Deutschland sowie aus dem katholischen und dem anglikanischen Bereich ergänzt wird. Kriegspredigten wurden nicht nur an der Front, sondern auch in der Heimat gehalten. Dabei lassen sich länder- und konfessionsübergreifende Ähnlichkeiten in Theologie und Diktion aufzeigen, während Unterschiede vor allem im Bereich der Geschichtsdeutung und der Verhandlung konfessionsspezifischer Themen zu erkennen sind. Allen Kriegspredigten ist zudem gemeinsam, dass sie mehrere Funktionen erfüllten: Sie dienten der Sinnstiftung in schweren Zeiten, der Legitimierung des Krieges und der Propagierung politischer Interessen, die von kirchlicher Seite aus unterstützt wurden.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Nach Dem Grossen Krieg: Vom Triumph Zum Desaster
Book SynopsisDer Band liefert neue Erkenntnisse Ãber das Ãœberleben und Scheitern von Demokratien in der Zwischenkriegszeit.
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918 Band VII/1: Verfassung Und Parlamentarismus: 1. Teilband: Verfassungsrecht, Verfassungswirklichkeit, Zentrale Reprasentativkorperschaften
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918 / Verfassung Und Parlamentarismus: Die Regionalen Reprasentativkorperschaften
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918: Band 11/2 2.
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Gedenken Und (K)Ein Ende?: Das
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Osterreich-Ungarn Und Italien Im Ersten Weltkrieg
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Die Protokolle Des Cisleithanischen Ministerrates
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V&R unipress GmbH Emotion, Habitus und Erster Weltkrieg:
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V&R Unipress Retornos / Ruckkehr: La Primera Guerra Mundial En
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V&R Unipress Schulbuch Und Erster Weltkrieg:
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V&R unipress GmbH Schriften des Erich Maria Remarque-Archivs.: Eine
Book SynopsisAls Erich Maria Remarque 1929 mit Im Westen nichts Neues einen Roman ëber das Fronterlebnis im Ersten Weltkrieg veröffentlichte, wurden er und sein Buch schnell zum Fall Remarque. Die unheroische Schilderung ëber das Leben und Sterben einer Gruppe deutscher Soldaten an der Westfront konterkarierte jegliche romantisierende Perspektive auf den Krieg und rief von hasserfëllter Ablehnung bis zu euphorischer Vereinnahmung starke Reaktionen hervor - nicht nur in Remarques Heimatland, sondern rund um den Globus. Anhand der zeitgenössischen Presserezeption von Im Westen nichts Neues in Deutschland und den USA stellt Nikos Späth dar, warum der Bestseller und seine Verfilmung durch Hollywood derart die Geister bewegten und sich in beiden Ländern diametral entgegengesetzte Diskurse entwickelten.
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V&R unipress GmbH World War One Veterans in Austria and
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Naulila 1914. World War I in Angola and
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Wydawnictwo STRATUS, Artur Juszczak Weapons of the Great War: Automatic Weapons of
Book SynopsisBook tells the readers about machine guns, automatic rifles, handguns and revolvers, including both the official weapon models in service in the Russian Army in 1914-1917 and weapons not officially approved as weapons in service but nevertheless used by the troops such as obsolete Russian and non-Russian arms both supplied by the allies or captured from the enemies. A special highlight of this book is the part describing the experimental automatic weapons, without which the reader would hardly get the big picture of the state of the Russian defense engineering developments in the early 20th century.For each model described in the book, there is a brief history of how it was designed and started to be used as an approved army weapon, also with the description of the key modifications made to it throughout the period of its manufacturing for further use as in-service weapon. The book contains a detailed and meticulous description of the field use, strengths and weaknesses of the weapon seen through the eyes of the soldiers. It is the first book written by a Russian weapons history researcher providing a detailed description of machine gun system parts such as mounts, carriers and pack equipment. This book also contains unique information on flare guns and special accessories.Book contains detailed color photos of the guns preserved in different Russian museums.
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Fulgentius (Spanish Edition)
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Suma La red de Alice / The Alice Network
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Viella Sudditi O Cittadini?: L'Evoluzione Delle
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Viella Editrice Stranieri Nemici: Nazionalismo E Politiche Di Sicurezza in Italia Durante La Prima Guerra Mondiale
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