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Outcast Europe - Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War 1936-48 (Hardcover, New): Sharif Gemie, Laure Humbert,... Outcast Europe - Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War 1936-48 (Hardcover, New)
Sharif Gemie, Laure Humbert, Fiona Reid
R4,596 Discovery Miles 45 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is an original perspective on the experience of refugees and relief workers. The period of the 'long' Second World War (1936-1948) was marked by mass movements of diverse populations: 60 million people either fled or were forced from their homes. This book considers the Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's Spain in 1939, the French civilians trying to escape the Nazi invasion in 1940, and the millions of people displaced or expelled by the forces of Hitler's Third Reich. Throughout this period state and voluntary organisations were created to take care of the homeless and the displaced. National organisations dominated until the end of the war; afterwards, international organisations - the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency and the International Refugee Organisation - were formed to deal with what was clearly an international problem. Using case studies of displaced people and of relief workers, this book is unique in placing such crises at the centre rather than the margins of wartime experience, making the work nothing less than an alternative history of the Second World War.

Broken Men - Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain 1914-30 (Hardcover): Fiona Reid Broken Men - Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain 1914-30 (Hardcover)
Fiona Reid
R4,260 Discovery Miles 42 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shell shock achieved a very high political profile in the years 1919-1922. Publications ranging from John Bull to the Morning Post insisted that shell-shocked men should be treated with respect, and the Minister for Health announced that the government was committed to protecting shell-shocked men from the stigma of lunacy. Yet at the same time, many mentally-wounded veterans were struggling with a pension system which was failing to give them security. It is this conflict between the political rhetoric and the lived experience of many wounded veterans that explains why the government was unable to dispel the negative wartime assessment of official shell-shock treatment. There was also a real conflict between the government's wish to forget shell shock whilst memorialising the war and remembering the war dead. As a result of these contradictions, shell shock was not forgotten, on the contrary, the shell-shocked soldier quickly grew to symbolise the confusions and inconsistencies of the Great War.

Medicine in First World War Europe - Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists (Hardcover): Fiona Reid Medicine in First World War Europe - Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists (Hardcover)
Fiona Reid
R2,986 Discovery Miles 29 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented: approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone. In consequence, military-medical services expanded and the war ensured that medical professionals became firmly embedded within the armed services. In a situation of total war civilians on the home front came into more contact than before with medical professionals, and even pacifists played a significant medical role. Medicine in First World War Europe re-visits the casualty clearing stations and the hospitals of the First World War, and tells the stories of those who were most directly involved: doctors, nurses, wounded men and their families. Fiona Reid explains how military medicine interacts with the concerns, the cultures and the behaviours of the civilian world, treating the history of wartime military medicine as an integral part of the wider social and cultural history of the First World War.

Broken Men - Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain 1914-30 (Paperback): Fiona Reid Broken Men - Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain 1914-30 (Paperback)
Fiona Reid
R1,519 Discovery Miles 15 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title offers a genuinely new insight into the lives of shell-shocked soldiers both during and after the Great War. Shell shock achieved a very high political profile in the years 1919-1922. Publications ranging from "John Bull" to the "Morning Post" insisted that shell-shocked men should be treated with respect, and the Minister for Health announced that the government was committed to protecting shell-shocked men from the stigma of lunacy. Yet at the same time, many mentally-wounded veterans were struggling with a pension system which was failing to give them security. It is this conflict between the political rhetoric and the lived experience of many wounded veterans that explains why the government was unable to dispel the negative wartime assessment of official shell-shock treatment. There was also a real conflict between the government's wish to forget shell shock whilst memorialising the war and remembering the war dead. As a result of these contradictions, shell shock was not forgotten, on the contrary, the shell-shocked soldier quickly grew to symbolise the confusions and inconsistencies of the Great War.

Outcast Europe - Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War 1936-48 (Paperback, New): Sharif Gemie, Laure Humbert,... Outcast Europe - Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War 1936-48 (Paperback, New)
Sharif Gemie, Laure Humbert, Fiona Reid
R1,453 Discovery Miles 14 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The period of the 'long' Second World War (1936-1948) was marked by mass movements of diverse populations: 60 million people either fled or were forced from their homes. This book considers the Spanish Republicans fleeing Franco's Spain in 1939, the French civilians trying to escape the Nazi invasion in 1940, and the millions of people displaced or expelled by the forces of Hitler's Third Reich. Throughout this period state and voluntary organisations were created to take care of the homeless and the displaced. National organisations dominated until the end of the war; afterwards, international organisations - the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency and the International Refugee Organisation - were formed to deal with what was clearly an international problem.Using case studies of displaced people and of relief workers, this book is unique in placing such crises at the centre rather than the margins of wartime experience, making the work nothing less than an alternative history of the Second World War.>

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