Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs
Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs

Author: Suzanne Evans

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0773560238

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Suzanne Evans finds commonalities between the many images of war mothers - the Canadian Silver Cross mother, the ancient Jewish Maccabean mother of seven martyred sons, the mother of a Palestinian suicide bomber. She compares the lore about mothers of martyrs in the Judeo-Christian, Muslim, and Sikh traditions with stories of World War I Canadian mothers who were depicted in the media as having sacrificed their sons for the sake of civilization, justice, freedom, and God. After the war these mothers were honoured with the Silver Cross medal. Evans argues that, like the mothers of past martyrs, the image of the war-supportive mother in Canada had a powerful influence over public opinion and drew supporters to the cause.

Evidence and Documents Laid Before the Committee on Alleged German Outrages ..
Evidence and Documents Laid Before the Committee on Alleged German Outrages ..

Author: James 1838-1922 Bryce

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9781362460893

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German Propaganda and U.S. Neutrality in World War I
German Propaganda and U.S. Neutrality in World War I

Author: Chad R. Fulwider

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0826273432

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In the fading evening light of August 4, 1914, Great Britain’s H.M.S. Telconia set off on a mission to sever the five transatlantic cables linking Germany and the United States. Thus Britain launched its first attack of World War I and simultaneously commenced what became the war’s most decisive battle: the battle for American public opinion. In this revealing study, Chad Fulwider analyzes the efforts undertaken by German organizations, including the German Foreign Ministry, to keep the United States out of the war. Utilizing archival records, newspapers, and “official” propaganda, the book also assesses the cultural impact of Germany’s political mission within the United States and comments upon the perception of American life in Europe during the early twentieth century.

German Atrocities, 1914
German Atrocities, 1914

Author: John Horne

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9780300107913

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Is it true that the German army, invading Belgium and France in August 1914, perpetrated brutal atrocities? Or are accounts of the deaths of thousands of unarmed civilians mere fabrications constructed by fanatically anti-German Allied propagandists? Based on research in the archives of Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, this pathbreaking book uncovers the truth of the events of autumn 1914 and explains how the politics of propaganda and memory have shaped radically different versions of that truth. John Horne and Alan Kramer mine military reports, official and private records, witness evidence, and war diaries to document the crimes that scholars have long denied: a campaign of brutality that led to the deaths of some 6500 Belgian and French civilians. Contemporary German accounts insisted that the civilians were guerrillas, executed for illegal resistance. In reality this claim originated in a vast collective delusion on the part of German soldiers. The authors establish how this myth originated and operated, and how opposed Allied and German views of events were used in the propaganda war. They trace the memory and forgetting of the atrocities on both sides up to and beyond World War II. Meticulously researched and convincingly argued, this book reopens a painful chapter in European history while contributing to broader debates about myth, propaganda, memory, war crimes, and the nature of the First World War.

Evidence and Documents Laid Before the Committee on Alleged German Outrages ...
Evidence and Documents Laid Before the Committee on Alleged German Outrages ...

Author: Great Britain. Committee on Alleged German Outrages

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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Containing details of outrages on civil population in Belgium and France; the use of civilians as a screen; offences against combatants; firing on hospitals, stretcher bearers, etc.; extracts from diaries and papers of German soldiers; proclamations by German army authorities; some articles of the Hague convention concerning the laws and customs of war; facsimiles of papers found on German soldiers.