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A collection of Rudyard Kipling's articles describing the French
Frontline during the First World War. Published to coincide with
the 150th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling's birth.
The Great War of 1914-1918 was fought on the battlefield, on the
sea and in the air, and in the heart. Museums Victoria's exhibition
World War I: Love and Sorrow exposed not just the nature of that
war, but its depth and duration in personal and familial lives.
Hailed by eminent scholar Jay Winter as "one of the best which the
centenary of the Great War has occasioned", the exhibition delved
into the war's continuing emotional claims on descendants and on
those who encounter the war through museums today. Contributors to
this volume, drawn largely from the exhibition's curators and
advisory panel, grapple with the complexities of recovering and
presenting difficult histories of the war. In eleven essays the
book presents a new, more sensitive and nuanced narrative of the
Great War, in which families and individuals take centre stage.
Together they uncover private reckonings with the costs of that
experience, not only in the years immediately after the war, but in
the century since.
Habsburg Sons describes Jewish participation in the Habsburg Army,
1788-1918, concentrating on their role in World War I.
Approximately 300,000-350,000 Jews fought in the Austro-Hungarian
Armies on all fronts. Of these, 30,000-40,000 died of wounds or
illness, approximately 25,000 were officers. At least 17% were
taken prisoner in camps all over Russia and Central Asia. Many
soldiers were Orthodox Ostjuden, and soldiers came into regular
contact with Jewish civilians. Over 130 Feldrabbiner (chaplains)
served mainly on Eastern and Italian Fronts. Antisemitism was
present but generally not overt. The book uses personal diaries and
newspaper articles (most available in English for the first time)
to describe their experiences. The comparative experiences of Jews
in German, Russian, Italian Armies is also summarized.
The First World War continues to fascinate. Its profound effect on
politics and society is still felt today. Yet it remains a greatly
misunderstood conflict, shrouded in myths and misperceptions. In
The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War
Philpott and Hughes, leading young historians of the conflict, draw
on recent scholarship to present a clear introduction to the war.
In fifty maps, accompanied by supporting text and statistical
tables, they survey the main battles and political features of the
war. This concise volume will give students and general readers
important insights into the nature and effects of world war.
Tigers on the Western Front
The 5th Leicestershire Regiment rallied to the colours almost to a
man as so many Territorial units did at the outbreak of the First
World War. It served on the Western Front as part of the 46th
(North Midland) Division which consisted of the Leicestershire,
Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Staffordshire
brigades. The Leicestershire's were in the 138th Brigade commanded
initially by General A. Taylor and subsequently by General R.
Clifford. In the pages of this book Actions are described on the
Salient, on Vimy Ridge, at Gommecort, Monchy, Lens, Hill 65, St.
Elie, Pontruet, Fresnoy, Riquerval Woods and many other engagements
where the men with the tiger cap badge distinguished themselves.
This history of the regiment was written by a serving officer who
has produced a thorough and engaging account of the regiment's time
during the Great War which will be of interest both to students of
the British infantry at war and those who wish to trace their
ancestors to those momentous days in world history. The book
includes honour and roster rolls of especial interest to
genealogists. Available in softcover and hardcover with dustjacket
for collectors.
This is the first book to give a unified picture of Ireland's experience of the First World War. Unlike any previous work it identifies the similarities of experience of constitutional nationalists, separatist republicans and unionists, and deals with civilian, social, economic and cultural aspects, as well as the purely military. The book also relates the experience of the war and its subsequent commemoration to the politics of twentieth-century Ireland, North and South, up to and including the recent peace process.
In this collection of essays of incomparable scholarship, Stephen
Badsey explores in individual detail how the British Army fought in
the First World War, how politics and strategy affected its battles
and the decisions of senior commanders such as Douglas Haig, and
how these issues were intimately intertwined with the mass media
portrayal of the Army to itself and to the British people.
Informative, provocative, and often entertaining, based on more
than a quarter-century of research, these essays on the British
Army in the First World War range through topics from a trench raid
to modern television comedy. As a contribution to progressive
military history, "The British Army in Battle and Its Image
1914-1918" proves that the way the British Army fought and its
portrayal through the media cannot be separated. It is one of a
growing number of studies which show that, far from being in
opposition to each other, cultural history and the history of
battle must be combined for the First World War to be properly
understood. For more information visit Stephen Badsey's website
www.stephenbadsey.com
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Previously published as Peacemakers Between January and July 1919,
after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the
world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart
were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd
George and Clemenceau. Kings, prime ministers and foreign ministers
with their crowds of advisers rubbed shoulders with journalists and
lobbyists for a hundred causes - from Armenian independence to
women's rights. Everyone had business in Paris that year - T.E.
Lawrence, Queen Marie of Romania, Maynard Keynes, Ho Chi Minh.
There had never been anything like it before, and there never has
been since. For six extraordinary months the city was effectively
the centre of world government as the peacemakers wound up bankrupt
empires and created new countries. They pushed Russia to the
sidelines, alienated China and dismissed the Arabs, struggled with
the problems of Kosovo, of the Kurds, and of a homeland for the
Jews. The peacemakers, so it has been said, failed dismally; failed
above all to prevent another war. Margaret MacMillan argues that
they have unfairly been made scapegoats for the mistakes of those
who came later. They tried to be evenhanded, but their goals - to
make defeated countries pay without destroying them, to satisfy
impossible nationalist dreams, to prevent the spread of Bolshevism
and to establish a world order based on democracy and reason -
could not be achieved by diplomacy. Paris 1919 (originally
published as Peacemakers) offers a prismatic view of the moment
when much of the modern world was first sketched out.
This edited collection presents new research on how the Great War
and its aftermath shaped political thought in the interwar period
across Europe. Assessing the major players of the war as well as
more peripheral cases, the contributors challenge previous
interpretations of the relationship between veterans and fascism,
and provide new perspectives on how veterans tried to promote a new
political and social order. Those who had frontline experience of
the First World War committed themselves to constructing a new
political and social order in war-torn Europe, shaped by their
experience of the war and its aftermath. A number of them gave
voice to the need for a world order free from political and social
conflict, and all over Europe veterans imagined a third way between
capitalist liberalism and state-controlled socialism. By doing so,
many of them moved towards emerging fascist movements and became,
in some case unwillingly, the heralds of totalitarian
dictatorships.
The First World War cannot be sufficiently documented and
understood without considering the analytical category of gender.
This exciting volume examines key issues in this area, including
the 'home front' and battlefront, violence, pacifism, citizenship -
and emphasizes the relevance of gender within the expanding field
of First World War Studies. By addressing such a broad range of
topics through case studies and chapters on British and French
heroines, Austro-Hungarian war nurses, gendered representations of
bereavement and modern war technology, this volume provides a
transnational and comparative approach to the subject, integrating
research on Western and Central Europe with that on marginalized
regions in Italy, Austria-Hungary, Slovenia, and Lithuania.
When HMS Laurentic sank in 1917, few knew what cargo she was
carrying, and the Admiralty wanted to keep it that way. After all,
broadcasting that there were 44 tons of gold off the coast of
Ireland in the middle of a vicious and bloody war was not the best
strategic move. But Britain desperately needed that gold.
Lieutenant Commander Guybon Damant was an expert diver and helped
discover how to prevent decompression sickness ('the bends'). With
a then world record dive of 210ft under his belt and a proven
history of military determination, Damant was the perfect man for a
job that required the utmost secrecy and skill. What followed next
was a tale of incredible feats, set against a backdrop of war and
treacherous storms. Based on thousands of Admiralty pages,
interviews with Damant's family and the unpublished memoirs of the
man himself, The Sunken Gold is a story of war, treasure - and one
man's obsession to find it.
The first of four volumes that together provide a comprehensive account of World War I, this book unravels the complicated and tragic events of the war's Eastern Front. In particular, this book details the history of conflict between Germany and Russia, which proved disastrous for the Russian forces and would ultimately pave the way for the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917.
In France the decade preceding the outbreak of the First World
War was characterized by a revival of nationalism and militarism.
Wesseling analyzes the ideas current in France in this period about
the use, value, and beauty of war, the army, and army life. In
examining the French army of the period, Wesseling found that at
the same time that new forms were sought, old values were being
emphasized. Attempts at reforms were most frequent in those areas
where antimilitarist writers had concentrated their criticism. Next
to this there also was a new glorification of traditional military
virtues: disinterestedness, submission, and discipline.
In conceptualizing war, as Wesseling shows, a distinction can be
made between speculations on war as a concrete phenomenon and as an
abstract notion. During the period, war was looked upon as a factor
of renewal and regeneration. The years from 1905 to 1914 were of
great importance for the history of the military problem in France.
A new appreciation of the ideals that were preached in the army
came into being. Though this did not lead to militarism in the
sense that the military determined politics, as Wesseling
illustrates, it did lead to a militarist attitude.
Letters From a Yankee Doughboy is a collection of more than 125
letters written by Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker, to his
sister, Eva, a county nurse living in Framingham, Massachusetts,
describing his everyday service in combat during World War 1. These
letters, edited by Private Maker's grandson, Major Bruce H. Norton
(USMC retired) are accompanied by 365 pocket-diary entries that
Raymond religiously kept throughout the year 1918. Private Maker
was assigned to Company C, 101st Field Signal Battalion, as a
wireman, whose duty was to repair and replace the communications
lines that were destroyed by artillery and mortar barrages during
the horrific battles that took place between German infantry forces
and the 26th "Yankee" Division of the American Expeditionary Force
(AEF), in France, from October of 1917 until the end of the war.
Assigned to the 104th Infantry Regiment, Private Maker saw the very
worst of ground warfare. He fought at the Battle of Belleau Wood;
was gassed by German artillery forces at the Battle of
Chateau-Thierry and was wounded by artillery fire outside of
Verdun, just one day before the Armistice was signed. The theme of
his letters will vividly evoke memories in the tens of thousands of
men and women who have served their country and their friends and
loved ones. As a postscript, toward the end of the war, Raymond
took the key to the North Gate of Verdun as a battlefield keepsake
and mailed it home to his sister, instructing her to "keep that
key, as someday it will be of value." On November 11, 2018 - the
centenary of Armistice Day - the author returned that key to
Thierry Hubscher, the Director of the Memorial de Verdun, to be
placed on display in that great Museum, closing a 100-year chapter
in Raymond's life.
During the Great War, books and stories for young men were
frequently used as unofficial propaganda for recruitment and to
sell the war to British youth as a moral crusade. Until now, this
literature has been neglected by academics, but the image of the
war these fictions created was remarkably enduring and, despite the
appearance of post-war literature of disillusioned veterans,
continued to shape the attitudes of the young well into the 1930s.
This is the first detailed account of how adventure fiction
represented the Great War for British boys between 1914 and the end
of the war. Paris examines how such literature explained the causes
of the war to boys and girls and how it encouraged young men to
participate in the noble crusade on the Western Front and in other
theaters. He explores the imagery of the trenches, the war in the
air, and the nature of war in the Middle East and Africa. He also
details the links between popular writers and the official literary
propaganda campaign. The study concludes by looking at how these
heroic images remained in print, enduring well into the inter-war
years.
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