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Australia in New Guinea, 1914 - the Campaign on Land & Sea in the Pacific During the First World War (Hardcover): L C Reeves, A... Australia in New Guinea, 1914 - the Campaign on Land & Sea in the Pacific During the First World War (Hardcover)
L C Reeves, A St John Adcock
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
France at War (Hardcover): Rudyard Kipling France at War (Hardcover)
Rudyard Kipling
R276 R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Save R25 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

Museums, History and the Intimate Experience of the Great War - Love and Sorrow (Paperback): Joy Damousi, Deborah Tout-Smith,... Museums, History and the Intimate Experience of the Great War - Love and Sorrow (Paperback)
Joy Damousi, Deborah Tout-Smith, Bart Ziino
R1,373 Discovery Miles 13 730 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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 - Jews in the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1788-1918 (Hardcover): Peter C. Appelbaum Habsburg Sons - Jews in the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1788-1918 (Hardcover)
Peter C. Appelbaum
R3,519 Discovery Miles 35 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): M. Hughes, W Philpott The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
M. Hughes, W Philpott
R1,638 Discovery Miles 16 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

1/5th Battalion the Leicestershire Regiment in the Great War (Hardcover): J.D. Hills 1/5th Battalion the Leicestershire Regiment in the Great War (Hardcover)
J.D. Hills
R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Ireland and the Great War (Hardcover): Keith Jeffery Ireland and the Great War (Hardcover)
Keith Jeffery
R2,248 Discovery Miles 22 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-18 (Hardcover): Stephen Badsey The British Army in Battle and Its Image 1914-18 (Hardcover)
Stephen Badsey
R5,270 Discovery Miles 52 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

Malcolm MacPhail's Great War - A Malcolm MacPhail WW1 novel (Hardcover): Darrell Duthie Malcolm MacPhail's Great War - A Malcolm MacPhail WW1 novel (Hardcover)
Darrell Duthie
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Paris 1919 (Paperback): Margaret MacMillan Paris 1919 (Paperback)
Margaret MacMillan
R460 R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Save R42 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

New Political Ideas in the Aftermath of the Great War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Alessandro Salvador, Anders G Kjostvedt New Political Ideas in the Aftermath of the Great War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Alessandro Salvador, Anders G Kjostvedt
R3,521 Discovery Miles 35 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Never Again MEANS Never Again (Hardcover): Michael S Gutter Never Again MEANS Never Again (Hardcover)
Michael S Gutter
R766 R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Hawke Battalion of the Royal Naval Division-During the First World War at Gallipoli and on the Western Front (Hardcover):... The Hawke Battalion of the Royal Naval Division-During the First World War at Gallipoli and on the Western Front (Hardcover)
Douglas Jerrold
R869 Discovery Miles 8 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gender and the First World War (Hardcover): Christa Hammerle, O. UEberegger, B. Bader-Zaar Gender and the First World War (Hardcover)
Christa Hammerle, O. UEberegger, B. Bader-Zaar
R1,976 Discovery Miles 19 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The Sunken Gold - First World War Espionage and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History (Hardcover): Joseph, A. Williams The Sunken Gold - First World War Espionage and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History (Hardcover)
Joseph, A. Williams
R627 R559 Discovery Miles 5 590 Save R68 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

War With the R. F. C. - Two Personal Accounts of Airmen During the First World War, 1914-18 (Hardcover): George F Campbell, Pat... War With the R. F. C. - Two Personal Accounts of Airmen During the First World War, 1914-18 (Hardcover)
George F Campbell, Pat O'Brien
R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mesopotamia 1914-15 - Extracts from a Regimental Officer's Diary-With the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry... Mesopotamia 1914-15 - Extracts from a Regimental Officer's Diary-With the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the First World War (Hardcover)
H Birch Reynardson
R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Front Lines to Headlines - The World War I Overseas Dispatches of Otto P. Higgins (Hardcover): James J. Heiman Front Lines to Headlines - The World War I Overseas Dispatches of Otto P. Higgins (Hardcover)
James J. Heiman; Foreword by J Bradley Pace
R869 Discovery Miles 8 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The First World War, Vol. 1 - The Eastern Front 1914-1918 (Hardcover, Hardback ed): Geoffrey Jukes The First World War, Vol. 1 - The Eastern Front 1914-1918 (Hardcover, Hardback ed)
Geoffrey Jukes
R4,460 Discovery Miles 44 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


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.

The Weimar Republic - A Captivating Guide to the History of Germany Between the End of World War I and Rise of the Nazi Era... The Weimar Republic - A Captivating Guide to the History of Germany Between the End of World War I and Rise of the Nazi Era (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R634 R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thirteen Years at the Russian Court - A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Czar Nicholas II. and his Family... Thirteen Years at the Russian Court - A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Czar Nicholas II. and his Family (Hardcover)
Pierre Gilliard
R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Old Front Line (Hardcover): John Masefield The Old Front Line (Hardcover)
John Masefield
R683 R635 Discovery Miles 6 350 Save R48 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Soldier and Warrior - French Attitudes toward the Army and War on the Eve of the First World War (Hardcover): H.L. Wesseling Soldier and Warrior - French Attitudes toward the Army and War on the Eve of the First World War (Hardcover)
H.L. Wesseling
R2,793 Discovery Miles 27 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 - Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker in World War I (Hardcover): Bruce H. Norton Letters from a Yankee Doughboy - Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker in World War I (Hardcover)
Bruce H. Norton
R2,782 Discovery Miles 27 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Over the Top - The Great War and Juvenile Literature in Britain (Hardcover, New): Michael Paris Over the Top - The Great War and Juvenile Literature in Britain (Hardcover, New)
Michael Paris
R2,770 Discovery Miles 27 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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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