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Military Aviation of the First World War - The Aces of the Allies and the Central Powers (Hardcover): Alan C. Wood, Alan Sutton Military Aviation of the First World War - The Aces of the Allies and the Central Powers (Hardcover)
Alan C. Wood, Alan Sutton
R944 R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Save R142 (15%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This beautifully illustrated book provides information on the air arms of the nations which took part in aerial warfare during the First World War featuring the Aces and their mounts. The war was a global conflict with 57 nations involved, but with aviation being in its infancy only eight nations had a major air arm to their fighting Services. The Allies: Britain, America, Italy, Belgium, France, and Russia and then the Central Powers comprising Germany and Austria-Hungary. This book is not intended to be comprehensive, for to provide such a work would require many volumes totalling thousands of pages. Instead this should be viewed as a relatively detailed overview; a general introduction to the topic of military aviation in the First World War. The aim has been to produce a well-illustrated book to maintain the interest of the reader with some short biographies of the leading Aces and basic information on the aircraft types used, and their development during the First World War. Furthermore, this book focuses on the air arms initially developed by the respective armies, and therefore the air arms of the navies, although fleetingly touched upon, are not dealt with in much detail. To provide reasonable coverage for the Royal Naval Air Service alone would require a separate and substantial additional volume. In a similar manner, although Zeppelins, other airships and balloons are mentioned and illustrated, little detail is given. The book contains details of the top Aces for each nation and in extensive illustration sections provides an extensive summary of the aircraft flown. While much of the focus is on the Aces, the book provides information on the aircraft flown and also has a separate illustrated section on Manfred von Richthofen and his 'flying circus'.

Afterlives of War - A Descendants' History (Hardcover): Michael Roper Afterlives of War - A Descendants' History (Hardcover)
Michael Roper
R807 Discovery Miles 8 070 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Afterlives documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations who grew up in Australia, Britain and Germany after the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, they experienced its effects from their earliest years. Based on ninety oral history interviews and observation during the First World War Centenary, this pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War, and the intimate personal legacies of the conflict that animate their history-making. -- .

Writing the Great War - The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present (Paperback): Christoph Cornelissen, Arndt... Writing the Great War - The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present (Paperback)
Christoph Cornelissen, Arndt Weinrich
R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India's struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.

Writers at War - Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden (Hardcover): Isabelle... Writers at War - Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden (Hardcover)
Isabelle Brasme
R4,023 Discovery Miles 40 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the various ways in which these writers contended with conveying their war experience from the temporal and spatial proximity of the warzone and investigates the multifarious impact of the war on the (re)development of their aesthetics. It also interrogates to what extent these texts aligned with or challenged existing social, cultural, philosophical and aesthetic norms. While this book is concerned with literary technique, the rich existing scholarship on questions of gender, trauma and cultural studies on World War I literature serves as a foundation. This book does not oppose these perspectives but offers a complementary approach based on close critical reading. The distinctiveness of this study stems from its focus on the question of representation and form and on the specific role of the war in the four authors' literary careers. This is the first scholarly work concerned exclusively with theorising prose written from the immediacy of the war. This book is intended for academics, researchers, PhD candidates, postgraduates and anyone interested in war literature.

Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model - An International Relations Theory Explaining Conflict (Hardcover, New):... Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model - An International Relations Theory Explaining Conflict (Hardcover, New)
Isabelle Dierauer
R2,322 Discovery Miles 23 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Different international relations theorists have studied political change, but all fall short of sufficiently integrating human reactions, feelings, and responses to change in their theories. This book adds a social psychological component to the analysis of why nations, politically organized groups, or states enter into armed conflict. The Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model is introduced, which draws from prospect theory, realism, liberalism, and constructivism. The theory considers how humans react and respond to change in their social, political, and economic environment. Three case studies, the U.S. Civil War, the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1995), and the First World War are applied to illustrate the model s six process stages: status quo, change creating shifts that lead to disequilibrium, realization of loss, hanging on to the old status quo, emergence of a rigid system, and risky decisions leading to violence and war.

Fragments of Remembrance - Finding Lost Boys (Hardcover): Hampstead Pals Fragments of Remembrance - Finding Lost Boys (Hardcover)
Hampstead Pals; Edited by Jonathan Nicholls; Foreword by John Grieve
R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Milan Rastislav Stefanik - The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia (Paperback): Michal Ksinan Milan Rastislav Stefanik - The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia (Paperback)
Michal Ksinan
R1,325 Discovery Miles 13 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first scientific biography of Milan Rastislav Stefanik (1880-1919) that is focused on analysing the process of how he became the Slovak national hero. Although he is relatively unknown internationally, his contemporaries compared him "to Choderlos de Laclos for the use of military tactics in love affairs, to Lawrence of Arabia for vision, to Bonaparte for ambition ... and to one of apostles for conviction". He played the key role in founding an independent Czechoslovakia in 1918 through his relentless worldwide travels during the First World War in order to create the Czechoslovak Army: he visited Serbia and Romania on the eve of invasion by the Central Powers, Russia before the February revolution, the United States after it declared war on Germany, Italy dealing with the consequences of defeat in the Caporetto battle, and again when Russia plunged into Civil War. Several historical methods are used to analyse the aforementioned central research question of this biography such as social capital to explain his rise in French society, the charismatic leader to understand how he convinced and won over a relatively large number of people; more traditional political, military, and diplomatic history to show his contribution to the founding of Czechoslovakia, and memory studies to analyse his extraordinary popularity in Slovakia. By mapping his intriguing life, the book will be of interest to scholars in a broad range of areas including history of Central Europe, especially Czechoslovakia, international relations, social history, French society at the beginning of the 20th century and biographical research.

Politics and the Slavic Languages (Paperback): Tomasz Kamusella Politics and the Slavic Languages (Paperback)
Tomasz Kamusella
R1,332 Discovery Miles 13 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the last two centuries, ethnolinguistic nationalism has been the norm of nation building and state building in Central Europe. The number of recognized Slavic languages (in line with the normative political formula of language = nation = state) gradually tallied with the number of the Slavic nation-states, especially after the breakups of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. But in the current age of borderless cyberspace, regional and minority Slavic languages are freely standardized and used, even when state authorities disapprove. As a result, since the turn of the 19th century, the number of Slavic languages has varied widely, from a single Slavic language to as many as 40. Through the story of Slavic languages, this timely book illustrates that decisions on what counts as a language are neither permanent nor stable, arguing that the politics of language is the politics in Central Europe. The monograph will prove to be an essential resource for scholars of linguistics and politics in Central Europe.

There's a Devil in the Drum (Hardcover, New edition): John F. Lucy There's a Devil in the Drum (Hardcover, New edition)
John F. Lucy
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Images from "Over There": Personal Photography of America's Expeditionary Forces in WWI and Occupation (Hardcover):... Images from "Over There": Personal Photography of America's Expeditionary Forces in WWI and Occupation (Hardcover)
Stephen C McGeorge
R754 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R116 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a detailed study of some 150 unpublished and never-before-seen images of soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) and the Army of Occupation taken in France and Germany during and after World War I. As opposed to the stateside training-camp photos and formal portraits taken on return to the USA, this is an in-depth look at what the AEF looked like as they were actively engaged in the business of making the world safe for democracy. These images cover every rank and grade of soldier in the AEF from General Pershing to fresh-faced privates, and every occupational specialty from infantryman to cook. Details of uniforms and equipment, locations, times, and places have been painstakingly researched for each image.

Subversive Peacemakers - War Resistance 1914-1918: An Anglican Perspective (Paperback): Clive Barrett Subversive Peacemakers - War Resistance 1914-1918: An Anglican Perspective (Paperback)
Clive Barrett
R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The outbreak of the First World War saw an upsurge of patriotism. The Church generally saw the war as justified, and many clergy encouraged the men in their congregations to join the army. There was, however, already a strong strand of anti-war sentiment, opposed to the dominant theology of the Establishment. This was partly based on traditional Christian pacifism, but included other religious, social and political influences. Campaigners and conscientious objectors voiced a growing concern about the huge human cost of a conflict seemingly endlessly bogged down in the mud of the Flanders poppy fields. 'Subversive Peacemakers' recounts the stories of a strong and increasingly organised opposition to war, from peace groups to poets, from preachers to politicians, from women to working men, all of whom struggled to secure peace in a militarised and fragmenting society. Clive Barrett demonstrates that the Church of England provided an unlikely setting for much of this war resistance. Barrett masterfully narrates the story of the peace movement, bringing together stories of war-resistance until now lost, disregarded or undervalued. The people involved, as well as the dramatic events of the conflict themselves, are seen in a new light.

Renegotiating First World War Memory - The British and American Legions, 1938-1946 (Paperback): Ashley Garber Renegotiating First World War Memory - The British and American Legions, 1938-1946 (Paperback)
Ashley Garber
R1,322 Discovery Miles 13 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First World War-based ex-servicemen's organisations found themselves facing an existential crisis with the onset of the Second World War. This book examines how two such groups, the British and American Legions, adapted cognitively to the emergence of yet another world war and its veterans in the years 1938 through 1946. With collective identities and socio-political programmes based in First World War memory, both Legions renegotiated existing narratives of that war and the lessons they derived from those narratives as they responded to the unfolding Second World War in real time. Using the previous war as a "learning experience" for the new one privileged certain understandings of that conflict over others, inflecting its meaning for each Legion moving forward. Breaking the Second World War down into its constituent events to trace the evolution of First World War memory through everyday invocations, this unprecedented comparison of the British and American Legions illuminates the ways in which differing international, national, and organisational contexts intersected to shape this process as well as the common factors affecting it in both groups. The book will appeal most to researchers of the ex-service movement, First World War memory, and the cultural history of the Second World War.

The Global First World War - African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian Mediators (Paperback): Ana Paula Pires, Jan... The Global First World War - African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian Mediators (Paperback)
Ana Paula Pires, Jan Schmidt, Maria Ines Tato
R1,317 Discovery Miles 13 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume deals with the multiple impacts of the First World War on societies from South Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, usually largely overlooked by the historiography on the conflict. Due to the lesser intensity of their military involvement in the war (neutrals or latecomers), these countries or regions were considered "peripheral" as a topic of research. However, in the last two decades, the advances of global history recovered their importance as active wartime actors and that of their experiences. This book will reconstruct some experiences and representations of the war that these societies built during and after the conflict from the prism of mediators between the war fought in the battlefields and their homes, as well as the local appropriations and resignifications of their experiences and testimonies.

Australia, Wilkommen - A History of the Germans in Australia (Hardcover): Jurgen Tampke, Colin Doxford Australia, Wilkommen - A History of the Germans in Australia (Hardcover)
Jurgen Tampke, Colin Doxford
R3,589 Discovery Miles 35 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Australia, Wilkommen (1990) documents the rich and varying contribution made by Germans in Australia. Originally welcomed as hardy pioneers, German settlers were responsible for discovering and opening up vast tracts of land. German scientists and entrepreneurs played a large role in the Australian economy. But as the German empire expanded into the Pacific, and Britain and Australia were drawn into two world wars, perceptions of Germany and its people changed and immigrants were caught in the crossfire between the old and new worlds. This book examines these issues surrounding German immigration into Australia, and the shifting perceptions of both the immigrants and the nation itself.

Safeguard Our Flank - The Kensingtons (Paperback): Terence Kearey Safeguard Our Flank - The Kensingtons (Paperback)
Terence Kearey
R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On a summer's day on the Somme in 1916, one brave battalion lost half its men to enemy fire in an hour. What went wrong? Martha Kearey dressed in black for the rest of her life in memory of the four sons she lost on that day in the First World War, proudly wearing each of their medals in turn on Sundays. Nearly a century on, her grandson Terence has set out to do justice to the memory of his uncles and their colleagues with a full account of the role of their Battalion, the Kensingtons, on the Somme in the summer of 1916. The Kensingtons, guardians of the right flank on the battlefront at Gommecourt, were ordered to march on the enemy without proper preparation in a move later condemned as foolhardy and suicidal. That summer's day, cut to pieces by enemy artillery, they lost half their men in less than an hour. Kearey sets out a candid account of the action, examining why this tragic and unnecessary slaughter was allowed to happen.

From Doniphan to Verdun - The Official History of the 140th Infantry (Hardcover): Evan Alexander Edwards From Doniphan to Verdun - The Official History of the 140th Infantry (Hardcover)
Evan Alexander Edwards
R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Machine Guns of World War I - Live Firing Classic Military Weapons in Colour Photographs (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): Robert... Machine Guns of World War I - Live Firing Classic Military Weapons in Colour Photographs (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Robert Bruce
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

All the guns examined in this new paperback edition of Machine Guns of World War 1 belong to the class known as "automatic" and seven classic World War 1 weapons are illustrated in some 250 color photographs. Detailed sequences shows them in close-up: during step-by-step field stripping, and during handling, loading and live firing trials with ball ammunition, by gunners wearing period uniforms to put these historic guns in their visual context. These fascinating photographs are accompanied by concise, illustrated accounts of each weapon's historical and technical background. The reader will learn exactly what it looked like, sounded like and felt like to crew the German, British and French machine guns which dominated the battlefields of the Western Front in 1914-18, and which changed infantry tactics forever.

Virginia and the Great War - Mobilization, Supply and Combat, 1914-1919 (Paperback): Lynn Rainville Virginia and the Great War - Mobilization, Supply and Combat, 1914-1919 (Paperback)
Lynn Rainville
R1,267 R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Save R363 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916. After America entered the war in 1917, Virginians served in numerous military and civilian roles-Red Cross nurses, sailors, shipbuilders, pilots, stenographers and domestic gardeners. More than 100,000 were drafted-more than 3600 lost their lives. Almost every city and county lost men and women to the war. The author details the state's manifold contributions to the war effort and presents a study of monuments erected after the war.

Daily Life in the Abyss - Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918 (Paperback): Vahe Tachjian Daily Life in the Abyss - Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918 (Paperback)
Vahe Tachjian
R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Historical research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, but much of it has focused on large-scale questions related to Ottoman policy or the scope of the killing. Consequently, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide's victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria. Through analysis of diaries and other source material, it reconstructs the rhythms of daily life within an often bleak and hostile environment, in the face of a gradually disintegrating social fabric.

Feeding Occupied France during World War I - Herbert Hoover and the Blockade (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Clotilde Druelle Feeding Occupied France during World War I - Herbert Hoover and the Blockade (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Clotilde Druelle
R2,658 Discovery Miles 26 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the history of Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium, which supplied humanitarian aid to the millions of civilians trapped behind German lines in Belgium and Northern France during World War I. Here, Clotilde Druelle focuses on the little-known work of the CRB in Northern France, crossing continents and excavating neglected archives to tell the story of daily life under Allied blockade in the region. She shows how the survival of 2.3 million French civilians came to depend upon the transnational mobilization of a new sort of diplomatic actor-the non-governmental organization. Lacking formal authority, the leaders of the CRB claimed moral authority, introducing the concepts of a "humanitarian food emergency" and "humanitarian corridors" and ushering in a new age of international relations and American hegemony.

America's Arab Nationalists - From the Ottoman Revolution to the Rise of Hitler (Hardcover): Aaron Berman America's Arab Nationalists - From the Ottoman Revolution to the Rise of Hitler (Hardcover)
Aaron Berman
R4,030 Discovery Miles 40 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

America's Arab Nationalists focuses in on the relationship between Arab nationalists and Americans in the struggle for independence in an era when idealistic Americans could see the Arab nationalist struggle as an expression of their own values. In the first three decades of the twentieth century (from the 1908 Ottoman revolution to the rise of Hitler), important and influential Americans, including members of the small Arab-American community, intellectually, politically and financially participated in the construction of Arab nationalism. This book tells the story of a diverse group of people whose contributions are largely unknown to the American public. The role Americans played in the development of Arab nationalism has been largely unexplored by historians, making this an important and original contribution to scholarship. This volume is of great interest to students and academics in the field, though the narrative style is accessible to anoyone interested in Arab nationalism, the conflict between Zionists and Palestinians, and the United States' relationship with the Arab world.

HISTORIES of 251 DIVISIONS of the GERMAN ARMY WHICH PARTICIPATED IN THE WAR (1914-1918). (Hardcover): Us War Dept 1920 HISTORIES of 251 DIVISIONS of the GERMAN ARMY WHICH PARTICIPATED IN THE WAR (1914-1918). (Hardcover)
Us War Dept 1920
R1,463 Discovery Miles 14 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Women and World War 1 - The Written Response (Hardcover): Dorothy Goldman Women and World War 1 - The Written Response (Hardcover)
Dorothy Goldman
R2,871 Discovery Miles 28 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The literary canon of World War I - celebrated for realizing the experience of an entire generation - ignores writing by women. The war brought home to women the sorrow of the loss of husbands, lovers and relatives as well as more revolutionary knowledge gained through the experience of working in munitions factories and as ambulance drivers, police, nurses and spies. During all this time women wrote - letters, poetry, novels, short stories and memoirs. This volume of mutually reflective essays brings writing from Britain, America, France, Germany, Australia and Russia into literary focus.

Writing the Great War / Comment ecrire la Grande Guerre? - Francophone and Anglophone Poetics / Poetiques francophones et... Writing the Great War / Comment ecrire la Grande Guerre? - Francophone and Anglophone Poetics / Poetiques francophones et anglophones (Paperback, New edition)
Nicolas Bianchi
R1,454 Discovery Miles 14 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Yanks Are Coming Over There - Anglo-Saxonism and American Involvement in the First World War (Paperback): Dino Buenviaje The Yanks Are Coming Over There - Anglo-Saxonism and American Involvement in the First World War (Paperback)
Dino Buenviaje
R1,267 R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Save R363 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

World War I was a global cataclysm that toppled centuries-old dynasties and launched ""the American century."" Yet at the outset few Americans saw any reason to get involved in yet another conflict among the crowned heads of Europe. Despite its declared neutrality, the U.S. government gradually became more sympathetic with the Allies, until President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany to ""make the world safe for democracy." Key to this shift in policy and public opinion was ""Anglo-Saxonism""-the belief that the English-speaking peoples were inherently superior and fit for world leadership. Just before the war, British and American elites set aside former disputes and recognized their potential for dominating the international stage. By casting Germans as "barbarians" and spreading stories of atrocities, the Wilson administration persuaded the public-including millions of German Americans-that siding with the Allies was a just cause.

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