The Great World War 1914–1945: 1. Lightning Strikes Twice
Author: Peter Liddle
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2015-02-19
Total Pages: 765
ISBN-13: 0007598181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparing and contrasting the World Wars.
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Remembering the Great War
Author: Ian Andrew Isherwood
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1786731037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe horrors and tragedies of the First World War produced some of the finest literature of the century: including Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Goodbye to All That; the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas; and the novels of Ford Madox Ford. Collectively detailing every campaign and action, together with the emotions and motives of the men on the ground, these 'war books' are the most important set of sources on the Great War that we have. Through looking at the war poems, memoirs and accounts published after the First World War, Ian Andrew Isherwood addresses the key issues of wartime historiography-patriotism, cowardice, publishers and their motives, readers and their motives, masculinity and propaganda. He also analyses the culture, society and politics of the world left behind. Remembering the Great War is a valuable, fascinating and stirring addition to our knowledge of the experiences of WWI.
The Origins of the First World War
Author: Annika Mombauer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1317875842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe seminal event of the 20th century, the origins of the First World War have always been difficult to establish and have aroused deep controversy. Annika Mombauer tracks the impassioned debates as they developed at critical points through the twentieth century. The book focuses on the controversy itself, rather than the specific events leading up to the war. Emotive and emotional from the very beginning of the conflict, the debate and the passions aroused in response to such issues as the ‘war-guilt paragraph’ of the treaty of Versailles, are set in the context of the times in which they were proposed. Similarly, the argument has been fuelled by concerns over the sacrifices that were made and the casualities that were suffered. Were they really justified?
The British Home Front and the First World War
Author: Hew Strachan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-12-31
Total Pages: 707
ISBN-13: 1009027441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First World War required the mobilisation of entire societies, regardless of age or gender. The phrase 'home front' was itself a product of the war with parts of Britain literally a war front, coming under enemy attack from the sea and increasingly the air. However, the home front also conveyed the war's impact on almost every aspect of British life, economic, social and domestic. In the fullest account to-date, leading historians show how the war blurred the division between what was military and not, and how it made many conscious of their national identities for the first time. They reveal how its impact changed Britain for ever, transforming the monarchy, promoting systematic cabinet government, and prompting state intervention in a country which prided itself on its liberalism and its support for free trade. In many respects we still live with the consequences.
Rewriting the First World War
Author: Andrew Suttie
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-12-16
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0230505597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book assesses Lloyd George's attempt to shape the history of 1914-18 through his War Memoirs. His account of the British conduct of the war focused on the generals' incompetence, their obsession with the Western Front, and their refusal to consider alternatives to the costly trench warfare in France and Belgium. Yet as War Minister and Prime Minister Lloyd George presided over the bloody offensives of 1916-17, and had earlier taken a leading role in mobilising industrial resources to provide the weapons which made them possible. Rewriting the First World War examines how Lloyd George addressed this paradox.
The Great World War, 1914-45: Lightning strikes once
Author: Peter Liddle
Publisher: HarperCollins (UK)
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe emphasis of this book is on the human experience that binds together the history of the two World Wars: v.2. The peoples' experience -- The cultural experience -- The moral experience -- Reflections.
Renegotiating First World War Memory
Author: Ashley Garber
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-06-29
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1000294935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst World War-based ex-servicemen’s organisations found themselves facing an existential crisis with the onset of the Second World War. This book examines how two such groups, the British and American Legions, adapted cognitively to the emergence of yet another world war and its veterans in the years 1938 through 1946. With collective identities and socio-political programmes based in First World War memory, both Legions renegotiated existing narratives of that war and the lessons they derived from those narratives as they responded to the unfolding Second World War in real time. Using the previous war as a "learning experience" for the new one privileged certain understandings of that conflict over others, inflecting its meaning for each Legion moving forward. Breaking the Second World War down into its constituent events to trace the evolution of First World War memory through everyday invocations, this unprecedented comparison of the British and American Legions illuminates the ways in which differing international, national, and organisational contexts intersected to shape this process as well as the common factors affecting it in both groups. The book will appeal most to researchers of the ex-service movement, First World War memory, and the cultural history of the Second World War.
For King and Country
Author: Heather Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-23
Total Pages: 591
ISBN-13: 110842936X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWas the First World War really 'For King and Country'? This is the first full history of the monarchy's role.
Irony and the Poetry of the First World War
Author: S. Puissant
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-03-19
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0230234216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does irony affect the evaluation and perception of the First World War both then and now? Irony and the Poetry of the First World War traces one of the major features of war poetry from the author's application as a means of disguise, criticism or psychological therapy to its perception and interpretation by the reader.
