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Books > History > World history > From 1900 > First World War
The two decades between the first and second world wars saw the
emergence of nuclear physics as the dominant field of experimental
and theoretical physics, owing to the work of an international cast
of gifted physicists. Prominent among them were Ernest Rutherford,
George Gamow, the husband and wife team of Frederic and Irene
Joliot-Curie, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, Gregory Breit and
Eugene Wigner, Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch, the brash
Ernest Lawrence, the prodigious Enrico Fermi, and the incomparable
Niels Bohr. Their experimental and theoretical work arose from a
quest to understand nuclear phenomena; it was not motivated by a
desire to find a practical application for nuclear energy. In this
sense, these physicists lived in an 'Age of Innocence'. They did
not, however, live in isolation. Their research reflected their
idiosyncratic personalities; it was shaped by the physical and
intellectual environments of the countries and institutions in
which they worked. It was also buffeted by the political upheavals
after the Great War: the punitive postwar treaties, the runaway
inflation in Germany and Austria, the Great Depression, and the
intellectual migration from Germany and later from Austria and
Italy. Their pioneering experimental and theoretical achievements
in the interwar period therefore are set within their personal,
institutional, and political contexts. Both domains and their
mutual influences are conveyed by quotations from autobiographies,
biographies, recollections, interviews, correspondence, and other
writings of physicists and historians.
A remarkable man's view of three military disasters
This book is comprised of the journals of an intelligence officer
of the British Army written in often difficult circumstances as the
events he experienced unfolded around him. Readers will note that
while the focus of this book concentrates on notable events within
the Great War, they also happen to be some of the worst military
failures for the allies. Inviting himself into the war on the
Western Front as an interpreter, he experienced the irresistible
human wave of the German advance as it rolled back the outnumbered
BEF from Mons. His journal was compiled from brief notes during the
retreat and from memory whilst in hospital following a wound,
capture, brief imprisonment and escape. The second journal concerns
the disastrous Dardanelle's adventure-written 'in idle hours
between times of furious action.' The author was able to view the
events in which he was involved with clear insight and objectivity.
At one point he wryly reports an outraged officer complaining that
the Turks were walking about the Gallipoli Peninsula, 'as if they
owned the place ' The third journal was written in Mesopotamia on a
Fly-boat upon the River Tigris as Kut fell. The accounts within
Herbert's book are of undoubted and vital interest as source
material of the First World War. Herbert was an interesting
character. He was half brother to Lord Carnarvon of Tutankhamen
fame, he was pivotal in the cause of Albanian independence and was
offered its throne on two occasions and he was intimate with
several of the notable figures of his time including T. E Lawrence,
Belloc, Buchan, Mark Sykes and others. A talented Orientalist and
linguist-he spoke 8 languages fluently-he was also a serving member
of the British Parliament throughout the war whilst also fulfilling
his military duties. Perhaps most significantly Herbert achieved
all this whist under the handicap of being practically blind, an
affliction he had suffered from birth. Available in softcover and
hardcover with dust jacket.
One of the decisive battles of the 20th century began on August 29,
1914 with the cry that echoed throughout France: "The Prussians are
coming!" It ended on September 10th, that same year. Earlier, more
than a million German troops-five massive armies-poured into
Belgium and France. The French army began the biggest retreat in
its history, and Germany seemed about to triumph. But the German
right wing, instead of wheeling to the east of Paris, as the famous
Schlieffen Plan required, crossed to the west of Paris, exposing
its banks. The counterattack was led from Paris, using the city's
taxi streets in a famous dash to take soldiers to the front. The
German plan was thwarted, and the Kaiser's army was forced to
retreat. It was an astonishing and costly victory: over 300,000
French soldiers died. As stirring as a novel, The Marne is a
classic of military history.
This important translation looks at World War I from the
perspective of German working-class women. The author demonstrates
the intimate connection between 'general' social history and
women's history while analyzing the dynamics between these
different levels of interpretation. She asks:
- How did women view the war and whom did they hold responsible for
it?
- How did military leaders and politicians perceive women at work,
in the home, and
on the streets?
This book explores the ways in which the people themselves
interpreted their world and their lives -- a perspective often
neglected by historians but one becoming increasingly relevant in
Germany today. Essential reading for all those interested in War
Studies, German Studies, History and Women's Studies and an
excellent text for course use.
Contrary to popular belief, Woodrow Wilson coordinated foreign and
defense policies. Wilson viewed Imperial Germany as a threat to
U.S. national security and acted accordingly. His urgent desire to
mediate an end to World War I was driven by geo-political concerns.
Forced into the war by tertiary issues, he decided to throw a great
deal of weight upon the scale by intervening decisively in the
Great War in order to dominate the postwar peace conference. There
he intended to dictate "a scientific peace" and to create a League
of Nations to insure collective security.
The first year of war on the Western Front
The quality of medical and nursing care available to British
soldiers on campaign had improved immeasurably since the days of
the Crimean War in the middle of the nineteenth century when
Florence Nightingale and her nurses had cared for wounded men who
could scarcely believe that her presence was not other worldly. By
the time of the First World War the organisation of medical care
had become a fixture of the military establishment, though, of
course, this was to be a war like no other. The reader joins the
author of this book in the first days of the conflict and through
the pages of her diary we follow her experiences on the Western
Front as she cared for the wounded from the actions on the Aisne
through the First Battle of Ypres and to the fighting to the middle
of 1915. This book was originally published anonymously during
wartime, but today most sources attribute the diary to Kathleen
Luard. Clearly she was a dedicated nurse and her writings take the
reader to the heart of a war of mud and attrition, revealing the
incredible work she and her colleagues undertook to care for their
beloved 'Tommies'-particularly on the ambulance trains which
collected the wounded from the front line to transport them to base
hospitals and close to the firing line in Field Ambulance stations
where her accounts of the plight of the wounded makes poignant and
touching reading. An essential source work of the Great war from
the female perspective.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each
title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our
hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their
spines and fabric head and tail bands.
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World War I was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from
1914 to 1918. Contemporaneously known as the Great War or "the war
to end all wars", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70
million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making
it one of the largest wars in history. This series of Eight volumes
provides year by year analysis of the war that resulted in the
death of more than 17 million deaths worldwide.
When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country
had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic political
systems, but the South lagged behind, remaining an impoverished,
agriculture region. Despite New South boosterism, the culture of
the early twentieth-century South was comparatively artistically
arid. Yet, southern writers dominated the literary marketplace by
the 1920s and 1930s. World War I brought southerners into contact
with modernity before the South fully modernized. This shortfall
created an inherent tension between the region's existing
agricultural social structure and the processes of modernization,
leading to distal modernism, a form of writing that combines
elements of modernism to depict non-modern social structures.
Critics have struggled to formulate explanations for the eruption
of modern southern literature, sometimes called the Southern
Renaissance. ,br> Pinpointing World War I as the catalyst, David
A. Davis argues southern modernism was not a self-generating
outburst of writing, but a response to the disruptions modernity
generated in the region. In World War I and Southern Modernism,
Davis examines dozens of works of literature by writers, including
William Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow, and Claude McKay, that depict the
South during the war. Topics explored in the book include contact
between the North and the South, southerners who served in combat,
and the developing southern economy. Davis also provides a new lens
for this argument, taking a closer look at African Americans in the
military and changing gender roles.
WE ALL MADE HISTORY is a collection of personal stories from people
who were in the military. Many military have put their lives on the
line for you to be free. The real Heroes never returned. When you
see a veteran, shake their hand and thank them for their service.
This book presents for the first time the collected editorials
Taft produced under contract for the "Philadelphia Public Ledger"
from November 1, 1917 through July 5, 1921. These syndicated
editorials contain his reactions to U.S. participation and policy
during World War I, the Paris peace settlement, the League of
Nations controversy, and the national elections of 1918 and
1920.
The work is first and foremost a resource and reference
compilation. The collection assumes, and the introduction strongly
suggests, that the material represents poorly recognized
information that is yet to be properly and fully integrated into
the historical accounts and interpretations, and that Taft's career
beckons closer examination. The work implicitly casts Taft in a new
and more active light than previously depicted. This book will be a
valuable addition to any research library, and it should appeal to
scholars engaged in research in Taft, and in American political
history.
The passage of time has not slowed the production of books and
articles about World War I. This volume provides a guide to the
historiography and bibliography of the Dardanelles Campaign,
including the Gallipoli invasion. It focuses on military history
but also provides information on political histories that give
significant attention to the handling of the Dardanelles Campaign.
The opening section of the book provides background information
about the campaign, discusses the major sources of information, and
lays out the major interpretative disputes. A comprehensive
annotated bibliography follows. This book nicely complements the
two earlier volumes on World War I battles--The Battle of Jutland
by Eugene Rasor and The Battles of the Somme by Fred R. van
Hartesveldt.
During World War I, French citizens accepted national union on the
home front as a necessary act of self-defence, but not without a
considerable degree of ambivalence. At the political level, the
union altered the balance of forces by improving the position of
the Right, destroying the identity of the Radical party and
creating the means by which the Socialist party first had access to
power. However, what makes this collection of articles important is
that they illustrate the social and political impact of French
citizens' acceptance of a national union during World War I as well
as dealing with the industrial aspects of French wartime history.
World War I was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from
1914 to 1918. Contemporaneously known as the Great War or "the war
to end all wars", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70
million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making
it one of the largest wars in history. This series of Eight volumes
provides year by year analysis of the war that resulted in the
death of more than 17 million deaths worldwide.
This is the most comprehensive chronology ever provided on the
First World War and how it transformed the world politically,
economically, socially, technologically, and culturally. Gerald
Herman outlines the military actions and events of the Great War in
chronological order, depicting the actions of the belligerents on
the Western, Eastern, and Southern Fronts, in the colonies, on sea,
and in the air, in the order in which they entered the war. His
chronology juxtaposes these military events alongside international
actions, showing how the events of the war led to treaties and
declarations, conferences and meetings, and various kinds of
informal contacts and results. He goes on to outline domestic
events in terms of political, economic, social, cultural, and
technological activities. A full index is also provided.
The chronology will be of great use to all libraries,
institutions, and individuals seriously concerned with military
history and modern world history.
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