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Books > History > World history > From 1900 > First World War
A fresh, nuanced look at an extraordinary woman and her lifelong
fight for justice. Defying the constraints of her gender and class,
Emily Hobhouse travelled across continents and spoke out against
oppression. A passionate pacifist and a feminist, she opposed both
the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War and World War One, leading to
accusations of treason. Elsabe Brits travelled in her footsteps to
bring to life a colourful story of war, heroism and passion,
spanning three continents.
Die boek gee 'n voelvlugoorsig van die vier Suid-Afrikaanse
kolonies gedurende die Eduardiaanse tydperk van 1902–1910. Die
tydperk word deur Karel Schoeman beskou as die “hoogtepunt van die
hele Imperiale gedagte” wat uiteindelik met die uitbreek van die
Eerste Wereldoorlog sou eindig. Die klem val egter nie op die
politieke besluite en ontwikkelinge nie, maar op die persoonlikhede
van leiers- en ander figure, die omstandighede in die vier kolonies
met hulle stede en dorpe, belangrike sosiale gebeurtenisse, die
aanloop tot unifikasie in 1910 en die uitwerking van die belangrike
naturelle grond-wet van 1913 op die lewenswyse van swart mense
direk na Uniewording. Kort maar insiggewende tiperings word gegee
van persoonlikhede so uiteenlopend soos oudpresident Steyn, Lord
Milner, die dramaturg Stephen Black, die bendeleier Robert Foster,
die avontuurlustige Mrs Edith Maturin en die deelsaaier Kas Maine.
Ruim aanhalings uit verskillende bronne verlewendig die bespreking
van alledaagse omstandighede op verskillende plekke in wat later
die Unie van Suid-Afrika sou wees, soos die sketse van Jacob Lub
oor die lewenswyse in Johannesburg, die setlaar Leonard Flemming se
boeke oor sy eensame bestaan op 'n afgelee Vrystaatse plaas, en die
talle verwysings na riksjas in die reisbeskrywings van besoekers
aan Durban. Besonder boeiend is ook die hoofstukke oor die rol van
Joodse smouse en handelaars in onder andere die volstruisveerbedryf
en die toestande in die inrigting vir melaatses op Robbeneiland.
Talle anekdotes en klein kameebeskrywings maak van Imperiale somer
'n besonder interessante leeservaring. Die boek word toegelig met
ruim fotoseksies wat 'n visuele beeld van die era gee.
From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2
August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on
the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were
quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage,
huge-scale battles. The war on the Western Front can be thought of
as being in three phases: first, a war of movement as Germany
attacked France and the Allies sought to halt it; second, the
lengthy and terribly costly siege warfare as the entrenched lines
proved impossible to crack (late 1914 to mid-1918); and finally a
return to mobile warfare as the Allies applied lessons and
technologies forged in the previous years. As with previous wars,
British Commanders-in-Chief of a theatre of war or campaign were
obliged to report their activities and achievements to the War
Office in the form of a despatch and those written from the Western
Front provide a fascinating, detailed and compelling overview of
this part of the First World War. This volume concludes with Field
Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's fascinating despatch, originally
published in 1919, on the execution of the fighting on the Western
Front.
Using original material and letters from the First World War, this
captivating and eye-opening account uncovers the unnerving
realities of the First World War and the impact it had on the town
of Tunbridge Wells. It looks at world events, which ultimately
determined the outbreak of the war, and how these same events
affected the small town in Kent and the people who made up the
community. From an early stage the hostilities of the war became
very real for the people of Tunbridge Wells. Because of its
geographical location, close proximity to major ports and rail
links, the town became the headquarters of the nations Territorial
Army, which brought with it 5,000 troops from all over the country.
Out of nearly 3,000 people from Tunbridge Wells who enlisted in the
military between 1914-1918, a staggering 801 did not return, and
out of those who did, many suffered terrible wounds and injuries,
both physically and mentally. Many moving stories are illustrated
throughout, such as that of Private William Starks Vidler of the
Royal Marines Light Infantry who became the town's first casualty
of the war when his ship, HMS Amphion struck a mine and
sunk.Ironically, eighteen others who died in the disaster were
German sailors who had been rescued by the Amphion when their ship
was sunk by the British Royal Navy. The book looks at letters sent
from husbands and sons, who had seen action in the war, and how
they were received by families on the Home Front, who were
anxiously waiting for new of their loved ones. It documents the
triumphs and tragedies of Tunbridge Wells' people as they sought to
find normality amongst a reality far removed from anything they had
ever known before.
Copywriter: include this in European/French History rather than
British This is a comparative study of national labour movements in
France and Britain during the First World War. Historians of labour
in this period have concentrated on pacifism, and on the post-war
radicalism and emergent communism to which that contributed. John
N. Horne focuses instead on the majorities in both the French and
the British labour movements which continued to support the war to
its end. He examines the terms of their support, and the broader
working-class experience which this reflected, showing how a
critical programme of socialist reforms was gradually developed.
Labour at War is a genuinely comparative analysis, based on
intensive primary research in both countries. It is an important
contribution both to labour history, and to the social and
political history of the First World War.
During the Great War, voluntary medical assistance to British
Forces was organised by the British Red Cross and the Order of St
John. As the conflict escalated there was a shortage of medical
assistance and ancillary services. The solution came with the
creation of the General Service Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD)
which enabled those with little or no medical training to undertake
more routine jobs - cooks, laundry maids, wardmaids, dispensers,
drivers etc. This book is a reprint of the final, and largest,
British Red Cross list giving information of over 18,000 women and
men who were involved. It provides individual detail (name, rank,
unit, destination) together with lists of Headquarters Staff,
Commissioners and Representatives, and also a Roll of Honour
For centuries, battleships provided overwhelming firepower at sea.
They were not only a major instrument of warfare, but a visible
emblem of a nation's power, wealth and pride. The rise of the
aircraft carrier following the Japanese aerial strike on Pearl
Harbor in 1941 highlighted the vulnerabilities of the battleship,
bringing about its demise as a dominant class of warship. This book
offers a detailed guide to the major types of battleships to fight
in the two World Wars. Explore HMS Dreadnought, the first of a
class of fast, big-gun battleships to be developed at the beginning
of the 20th century; see the great capital ships that exchanged
salvos at the battle of Jutland, including the German battlecruiser
Derfflinger, which sank the British battleship Queen Mary; find out
about the destruction of HMS Hood, which exploded after exchanging
fire with the Bismarck, which itself was sunk after a
trans-Atlantic chase by a combination of battery fire and
aircraft-launched torpedoes; and be amazed at the
'super-battleship' Yamato, which despite its size and firepower,
made minimal contribution to Japan's war effort and was sunk by air
attack during the defence of Okinawa. Illustrated with more than
120 vivid artworks and photographs, Technical Guide: Battleships of
World War I and World War II is an essential reference guide for
modellers and naval warfare enthusiasts.
Born out of a desire to commemorate those men from King's Road, St
Albans, who lost their lives in the Great War, the road's current
residents suggested the idea of a lasting memorial. Then came the
task of researching the lives and the families of those men. It
involved many hours of leafing through old newspapers and archives,
obtaining advice from local and national bodies and seeking help
from relatives of the deceased. A further memorial - this book,
which includes a brief history of this street - is the result. The
book was compiled by Compiled by Judy Sutton & Helen Little
with help and support from many others.
First published in 1918 Whizzbangs and Woodbines presents a candid
portrait of life behind the lines on the Western Front by Reverend
Durell, then Rector of Rotherhithe, and Chief Commissioner of the
Church Army in France.The Church Army, along with its counterparts
the YMCA, TOC-H and Salvation Army played an important part in the
support and morale of soldiers in war. In addition to providing
spiritual support,the Church Army welcomed more than 200,000 men
each day to their recreation huts and provided visits and gifts to
the wounded, tents and hostels near the front lines, drove
ambulances, mobile canteens and kitchen cars.In addition to
voluntary Church services, for those who wished to attend, a simple
salvation from trench life was offered; music, singing, concerts,
card games,billiards and refreshments, all small measures of joy in
the midst of dangers and hardships and as vital to the continued
war effort as bullets and shells. For a packet of woodbines and a
cup of tea was restorative ammunition enough for the average
British Tommy.
Georg Bucher, a German infantryman from 1914 had lost almost all of
his closest friends by 1918. The last friend he lost, Riedel, was
crushed by a tank in one of the last battles of the war. This is
his tale in their memory. A sergeant by 1918, Bucher describes
nearly every part of the Western Front - the Marne, Verdun,Somme,
Ypres, the Vosges and the 1918 Spring Offensive in vivid detail. He
illustrates how his psychological state changed over the course of
the war, how a soldier can in a split second turn from a human
being into a killing machine without pity, killing as second
nature, without thought.The raw endurance required to survive the
trenches is narrated in undiluted fashion, no horrors are spared;
the quagmire of 3rd Ypres, unrelenting lice and rats, the stench of
death and descriptions ofa bhorrent actions such as (so Bucher
alleges) French soldiers, under the influence of absinthe,
mutilating some of his company for revenge on the Senegalese.Fans
of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' or 'Storm of Steel' will be
delighted to discover Bucher's work.
First published in 1918, this book is a record of observations and
evidence compiled by the then US Consul in Queenstown, Eire. A rare
study from first-hand accounts. Contains detailed testimonies of
survivors from over fifty vessels attacked and often sunk by German
submarines during the Great War.A vivid and accurate picture of the
tactics and motives of German submarine warfare is provided in the
first part of the book. The second part concentrate son the attack
and sinking of RMS Lusitania. The sinking of the Lusitania remains
a controversial topic with the loss of 1,198 lives on 7May 1915
The story of the 39th Divisional Field Ambulances beings in the
year of 1915 at various recruiting offices, and continues in a
thin, uncertain stream of variable humanity, finding its way to the
Sussex Downs, facing the sea, at Cow Gap, Eastbourne, Here the
lines of white tents, the whitewashed stones, the martial sounds
and atmosphere welcomed the embryo soldier to the service of his
country, and to fellowship unique and abiding. These embryo
soldiers were to become the men that would be responsible for the
mobile frontline medical units and had special responsibility for
the care of casualties of the Brigades in their Division. Via Ypres
tells of these young men - mostly mere boys and non-militaristic in
their education - faced with the task of preparing to go to war to
take part in the great struggle. These happy, cheerful and perhaps
a bit casual soon-to-be soldiers remained just so once training was
over but also became the gallant and efficient men who were to be
faced with the danger and misery that war cannot help but bring; in
doing so potentially risk their lives to save those of their
comrades.
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