Oxford Student Texts: World War One Literature
Author: Oxford
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-04-14
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780198310754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of a series, this one concentrating on literature from the First World War
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Author: Oxford
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-04-14
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780198310754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of a series, this one concentrating on literature from the First World War
Author: Hew Strachan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-03-29
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 0198743122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: 1998. New edition published in hardcover in 2014.
Author: Tim Kendall
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 1048
ISBN-13: 0191642053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.
Author: Helen Cross
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-02-19
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780198328780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.
Author: Hew Strachan
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ian Dear
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 1072
ISBN-13: 9780195340969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"First published in 1995 as The Oxford companion to the Second World War "--Verso.
Author: Christoph Cornelissen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2022-11-11
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 1800737270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.
Author: Eric Dorn Brose
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPART ONE: INTO THE ABYSS 1871-1914 1. The Long Descent 2. From Peace to War PART TWO: THE ABYSS 1914-1918 3. The Opening Campaigns 1914 4. The Wider War 1914-1915 5. The Stalemate in Europe 1915 6. The Wider War 1915-1916 7. Tipping Points in Europe 1916-1917 8. War-Weariness and the Question of Peace in Europe 1917 9. War, Politics, and Diplomacy in the Middle East and Russia 1917-1918 10. The Last Furious Year of the Great War 1917-1918 PART THREE: SLOWLY OUT OF THE ABYSS 1918-1926 11. The Violent Aftermath of the Great War in Europe 1918-1926 12. The Problematic Legacy of the Great War in the Wider World 1918-1926 13. Epilogue: Bereavement, Economic Collapse, and the Climate for War.
Author: Michael Howard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007-01-25
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0199205590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War--from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers. Examining how and why the war was fought, as well as the historical controversies that still surround the war, Michael Howard also looks at how peace was ultimately made, and describes the potent legacy of resentment left to Germany.
Author: Hew Strachan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-02-06
Total Pages: 1248
ISBN-13: 0199261911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited range of sources, and their focus was primarily on military events. More recent approaches have embraced cultural, diplomatic, economic, and social history. In Hew Strachan's authoritative and readable history these fresh perspectives are incorporated with the military and strategicnarrative. The result is an account that breaks the bounds of national preoccupations to become both global and comparative.To Arms, the first of three volumes in this magisterial study, examines not only the causes of the war and its opening clashes on land and sea, but also the ideas that underpinned it, and the motivations of the people who supported it. It provides full and pioneering accounts of the war's finances, of the war in Africa, and of the Central Powers' bid to widen the war outside Europe.