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Machine Gunners in the desert
The development of the rapidly firing machine gun had been
gathering pace throughout the latter part of the nineteenth
century. By the time of the Great War it had reached a point of
deadly and devastating efficiency. Now, specially trained units of
men within all armies were trained to bring this lethal weapon to
bear on the enemy. This book concerns a group of such men-within
the British Army-as it and they fought the Army of the Ottoman
Turkish empire in the Middle East Campaign. This was a more mobile
war than the gunners of the Western Front experienced, that had its
own challenges including disease, blistering heat, flies and
difficult terrain. This is an intimate story of a small tightly
knit unit operating in an interesting sideshow of the greater
conflict.
Accounts of the 'Knights of the Sky' in the Great War
For those interested in the most outstanding airmen of the Great
War, this book will a highly satisfying read. The author has
chronicled the aces of the allied forces and has enhanced his
narrative with riveting accounts and first hand experiences and
reports of the 'High Aces' in action. Within these pages the reader
will discover the exploits of the Lafayette Escadrille, Roland
Garros-possibly the first Ace, Guynemer, Lufbery, Fonck, Pinsard
and many others of varied nationalities. The valiant flyers of the
bomber force are also covered as is the contribution made by
American pilots. The appendix includes a list of the Aces of all
nations with their 'kills' and much other vital information.
Available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket. A must for
every one interested in the dogfights over the trenches.
This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis
moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and
symptomatology. The essays explore the personal traumas of soldiers
and civilians in the wake of the First World War; they also discuss
how memory and representations of trauma are transmitted between
patients, doctors and families across generations. The book argues
that so far the traumatic effects of the war have been
substantially underestimated. Trauma was shaped by gender,
politics, and personality. To uncover the varied forms of trauma
ignored by medical and political authorities, this volume draws on
diverse sources, such as family archives and narratives by children
of traumatized men, documents from film and photography, memoirs by
soldiers and civilians. This innovative study challenges us to
re-examine our approach to the complex psychological effects of the
First World War.
The Impact of the First World War on U.S. Policymakers: American
Strategic and Foreign Policy Formulation, 1938 1942 is designed to
recount the formulation of foreign and defense policies through an
examination of the background of the policymakers, with specific
emphasis on the World War I experience. The introduction provides
an analysis of the literature of the history of this American World
War II policy formulation. The events and factors that led to the
reorientation of priorities in 1938-1939 are examined. From that
base, Michael Carew reviews the unfolding events of the European
and Japanese degeneration into war through the spring of 1940, and
their perception for the American policy-makers. He also recounts
the tectonic shifts of the subsequent eighteen months and the
scramble for an American response. The immediate consequences of
Pearl Harbor brought the policymaking to a crisis, and the
Casablanca conference of January 1943 signified the completion of
the formulation of American foreign policy and naval-military
strategy. Carew emphasizes the leadership of President Roosevelt
and his cadre of planners in the policy formulation realm, the
assertion of leadership of the alliance, and Roosevelt's specific
tasks in managing the American war effort. These presidential tasks
included the industrial mobilization of the American economy, the
domestic political leadership of the war, the persuasion of the
alliance to the propriety of American policy, and the defeat of the
Axis."
Adolf Hitler is the greatest mystery of the 20th century, and the
mystery surrounding him consists of two unanswered questions that
have baffled biographers and historians. First, how did he ever
rise to power? Second, who was he really? Hitler had the power to
mesmerize crowds as the most dynamic orator of the modern age. Yet,
his power was not in his ideas, which he collected from the gutter
sheets of Vienna, nor was it in his personality; his biographers
describe him as an "unperson" and his character as a "void" and a
"black hole." What, then, was the source of his power? Was he a
medium or a magician with paranormal powers, as many contemporaries
thought? Or did he have a secret or method that has not yet been
revealed? Ben Novak spent fourteen years searching for the secret
of Hitler's political success and his power as a speaker. Hitler's
most astute contemporary observer, Konrad Heiden, who wrote the
first objective books on Hitler warning that this man was "the
greatest massdisturber in world history," suggested that Hitler's
secret lay in his use of "eine eigentiimliche art von Logik,"or a
"peculiar form of logic." Beginning with this clue, Novak finds
that there is a new form of logic in accordance with Heiden's
description and examples that can explain Hitler's phenomenal
political success. This new form of logic, called "abduction," was
discovered by an American philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce
(1839-1914), who is rapidly becoming America's most well-known
philosopher and logician. Abduction is a third form of logic, in
addition to deduction and induction. Unlike the other forms of
logic, abduction is based on instinct and has a power over
emotions. Novak argues that Hitler was the first politician to
apply the logic of abduction to politics. This book provides the
first coherent account of Hitler's youth that ties together all the
known facts, clearly showing the genesis of the strangest and most
terrible man of the twentieth century while identifying the power
he discovered that allowed him to break out into the world in such
a terrifying way.
How can we understand what caused World War I? What role did
Germany play? This book encourages us to re-think the events that
led to global conflict in 1914.Historians in recent years have
argued that German leaders acted defensively or pre-emptively in
1914, conscious of the Reich's deteriorating military and
diplomatic position. Germany and the Causes of the First World War
challenges such interpretations, placing new emphasis on the idea
that the Reich Chancellor, the German Foreign Office and the Great
General Staff were confident that they could win a continental war.
This belief in Germany's superiority derived primarily from an
assumption of French decline and Russian weakness throughout the
period between the turn of the century and the eve of the First
World War. Accordingly, Wilhelmine policy-makers pursued offensive
policies - at the risk of war at important junctures during the
1900s and 1910s.The author analyses the stereotyping of enemy
states, representations of war in peacetime, and conceptualizations
of international relations. He uncovers the complex role of ruling
elites, political parties, big business and the press, and contends
that the decade before the First World War witnessed some critical
changes in German foreign policy. By the time of the July crisis of
1914, for example, the perception of enemies had altered, with
Russia - the traditional bugbear of the German centre and left -
becoming the principal opponent of the Reich. Under these changed
conditions, German leaders could now pursue their strategy of
brinkmanship, using war as an instrument of policy, to its logical
conclusion.
The First World War began in the Balkans, and it was fought as
fiercely in the East as it was in the West. Fighting persisted in
the East for almost a decade, radically transforming the political
and social order of the entire continent. The specifics of the
Eastern war such as mass deportations, ethnic cleansing, and the
radicalization of military, paramilitary and revolutionary violence
have only recently become the focus of historical research. This
volume situates the 'Long First World War' on the Eastern Front
(1912-1923) in the hundred years from the mid-19th to the mid-20th
century and explores the legacies of violence within this context.
Content Jochen Boehler/Wlodzimierz Borodziej/Joachim von Puttkamer:
Introduction I. A World in Transition Joachim von Puttkamer:
Collapse and Restoration. Politics and the Strains of War in
Eastern Europe Mark Biondich: Eastern Borderlands and Prospective
Shatter Zones. Identity and Conflict in East Central and
Southeastern Europe on the Eve of the First World War Jochen
Boehler: Generals and Warlords, Revolutionaries and Nation-State
Builders. The First World War and its Aftermath in Central and
Eastern Europe II. Occupation Jonathan E. Gumz: Losing Control. The
Norm of Occupation in Eastern Europe during the First World War
Stephan Lehnstaedt: Fluctuating between 'Utilisation' and
Exploitation. Occupied East Central Europe during the First World
War Robert L. Nelson: Utopias of Open Space. Forced Population
Transfer Fantasies during the First World War III. Radicalization
Maciej Gorny: War on Paper? Physical Anthropology in the Service of
States and Nations Piotr J. Wrobel: Foreshadowing the Holocaust.
The Wars of 1914-1921 and Anti-Jewish Violence in Central and
Eastern Europe Robert Gerwarth: Fighting the Red Beast.
Counter-Revolutionary Violence in the Defeated States of Central
Europe IV. Aftermath Julia Eichenberg: Consent, Coercion and
Endurance in Eastern Europe. Poland and the Fluidity of War
Experiences Philipp Ther: Pre-negotiated Violence. Ethnic Cleansing
in the 'Long' First World War Dietrich Beyrau: The Long Shadow of
the Revolution. Violence in War and Peace in the Soviet Union
Commentary Joern Leonhard: Legacies of Violence: Eastern Europe's
First World War - A Commentary from a Comparative Perspective
The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate
the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and
represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film,
docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume
thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the
war as reflected in various media across national cultures,
addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory
of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays
investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its
mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms
and media for representing the war; (3) 'national' memories,
foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and
interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the
Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing
specifically on the ideological dimensions of its 'remembrance' in
historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial
contexts.
The African and Chinese battles of the First World War
Historian Edmund Dane wrote some excellent concise histories of
various theatres of the First World War and the first work in this
unique volume from Leonaur is one of them. There is much interest
among students of the period in the campaigns fought in Africa
which drew into conflict the regular troops of the principal
protagonists together with a colourful array of colonial and
imperial troops on both sides. This book covers Botha's campaign in
South-West Africa, the East African Campaign which pitted Smuts
against the exemplary generalship of von Lettow-Vorbeck and the
campaigns in Togoland and the Cameroons. Dane includes in his
book's title the campaign in the Pacific and although the single
chapter dedicated to this topic is of undeniable interest the
contemporary reader may judge the piece too short. To remedy this
we have included an in depth work on the siege and fall of Tsingtau
in China by an American journalist who was an eye-witness. This was
a vital outpost for the Germans in the region. The Royal Navy was
involved and the South Wales Borderers were engaged; the main
assault, however, was undertaken by Imperial Japanese forces. The
author's forecasts as to Japan's ambitions in the region turned out
to be chillingly accurate.
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.
Civilian into Soldier - A Novel Of The Great War. By John A. Lee.
Originally published in 1937. A fictionalised but autobiographical
account of a New Zealand man's fighting role in the fighting of
World War I, written by a man who became a political force in a
post-war New Zealand. Contents Include Sling Insubordination
Hel-Fire for Orators-Klink Not so tough after all The road to
Estaples Estaples War Logic About it and about Arrival Fatigue and
fire-step Adapation Talk, Talk, Talk From Fleux Baix to Le Bezit Le
Bezit Torches and Meteors Plugstreet Point De Neippe The Incubation
of Chaos Raid on the Left Rehearsal Vicious Appetites Lot of
Prepardness Fretfull Argumant Claim Twilight came Gas Nerves Up and
Over The Hysterical Hero Enter Fear Any Bearers Look, The
Cavalry-Counter Attack Bull Ring Philosophy Eyewash after chaos
Rest, disintegration Pagan death but Christian burial Eve of
offensive The advance of the refinery The brass hat who was a mad
hatter Good sport Comedy or tragedy Tragedy or comedy Rest camp On
the road gaily without a crust of bread Nerves nerves nerves The
attack on the pay office In which the infantry have a jolly good
time parley voo Good-byeee Many of the earliest books, particularly
those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce
and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these
classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using
the original text and artwor
This book project traces the thought of several Roman Catholic
Modernists (and one especially virulent anti-Modernist) as they
confronted the intellectual challenges posed by the Great war from
war from 1895 to 1907.
Between 1917 and 1919 women enlisted in the Women's Land Army, a
national organisation with the task of increasing domestic food
production. Behind the scenes organisers laboured to not only
recruit an army of women workers, but to also dispel public fears
that Britain's Land Girls would be defeminized and devalued by
their wartime experiences.
An incredible adventure from the Great War
This is a unique and riveting book. The steamer Tara and her crew
spent the early part of WW1 patrolling the Northern Channel between
England and Ireland before a transfer to coastal duties off Egypt
and Libya. There she was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat
operating from a secret base on the Libyan coast. To ensure no
intelligence of it's presence leaked to the British, the Germans
towed the survivors-including this book's author, the Tara's
captain, into captivity at the hands of the Senussi-religious
zealots in league with the Ottoman Turkish forces. Then began a
tortuous ordeal for the crew who suffered abuse, starvation and in
some cases death at the hands of their gaolers. Abortive escape
attempts across the relentless 'Red Desert' followed before rescue
finally came in the form of a dramatic hunt and final assault by
the forty armoured cars of the Duke of Westminster's squadron. An
absolutely essential and gripping read which will be a delight to
all those interested in the fortunes of British seamen, the war in
the Middle East and well told accounts of true adventure.
COLONIAL SETTLERS, ASKARIS AND MASAI SCOUTS. AMBUSH AND BATTLE
AMONG WILD ANIMALS AS DANGEROUS AS THE ENEMY ITSELF. Colonial
neighbours in British & German East Africa fought their war far
from the Western front across country familiar today as the great
game reserves. The East African Mounted Rifles were six squadrons
amalgamated from hastily formed volunteer units such as Bowkers
Horse and the Legion of Frontiersmen. Encounters with enraged
lions, horses camouflaged as zebras, a brief period as marines all
form part of this most unusual account of a most unusual campaign.
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.
The East African Campaign through a British Army Doctor's eyes The
author of this book-a practicing doctor in the British Army-had
already served on the Western Front in the early months of the
Great War and had actually become a P. O. W. at the hands of the
German enemy. Now in the East African Campaign he explains-in
writings originally intended for his own family-every aspect of war
in this little reported theatre. We learn about the movements of
troops and battle actions, but also of the character of troops from
many countries and of the African tribes who fought for each side.
We hear of the trials of the motor transport men-dodging ambush and
wild animals equally-and of the adventures of the "behind the
lines" intelligence gatherers living thrilling and dangerous lives
in the bush. Finally we are shown the difficulties of keeping men
healthy and the problems of saving lives under the most arduous
conditions. This is an unusual and interesting perspective on war
from a medical man in Africa.
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