The World War I Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623491134
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Book Synopsis The World War I Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz by : J. Luz Sáenz

Download or read book The World War I Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz written by J. Luz Sáenz and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream. All of this pleases me. I have been faithful to my duty.” Thus José de la Luz Sáenz ends his account of his military service in France and Germany in 1918. Published in Spanish in 1933, his annotated book of diary entries and letters recounts not only his own war experiences but also those of his fellow Mexican Americans. A skilled and dedicated teacher in South Texas before and after the war, Sáenz’s patriotism, his keen observation of the discrimination he and his friends faced both at home and in the field, and his unwavering dedication to the cause of equality have for years made this book a valuable resource for scholars, though only ten copies are known to exist and it has never before been available in English. Equally clear in these pages are the astute reflections and fierce pride that spurred Sáenz and others to pursue the postwar organization of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). This English edition of one of only two known war diaries of a Mexican American in the Great War is translated with an introduction and annotation by noted Mexican American historian Emilio Zamora.

Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191009393
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916 by : Michael Brock

Download or read book Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916 written by Michael Brock and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margot Asquith was the wife of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister who led Britain into war in August 1914. Asquith's early war leadership drew praise from all quarters, but in December 1916 he was forced from office in a palace coup, and replaced by Lloyd George, whose career he had done so much to promote. Margot had both the literary gifts and the vantage point to create, in her diary of these years, a compelling record of her husband's fall from grace. An intellectual socialite with the airs, if not the lineage, of an aristocrat, Margot was both a spectator and a participant in the events she describes, and in public affairs could be an ally or an embarrassment - sometimes both. Her diary vividly evokes the wartime milieu as experienced in 10 Downing Street, and describes the great political battles that lay behind the warfare on the Western Front, in which Asquith would himself lose his eldest son. The writing teems with character sketches, including Lloyd George ('a natural adventurer who may make or mar himself any day'), Churchill ('Winston's vanity is septic'), and Kitchener ('a man brutal by nature and by pose'). Never previously published, this candid, witty, and worldly diary gives us a unique insider's view of the centre of power, and an introduction by Michael Brock, in addition to explanatory footnotes and appendices written with his wife Eleanor, provide the context and background information we need to appreciate them to the full.

War Birds

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Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473879612
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Book Synopsis War Birds by : Elliott White Springs

Download or read book War Birds written by Elliott White Springs and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the declaration of war by the United States, more than 200 American men, unwilling to wait until US squadrons could be raised, volunteered to join the Royal Flying Corps in the summer of 1917. Amongst these men was John MacGavock Grider and Elliott White Springs who both joined 85 Squadron to fly SE.5 fighters.During his service with the RFC and the RAF, Grider kept a record of his experiences from when he joined up until his untimely death in 1918, when he was shot down over the Western Front. Before his death, Grider had made a pact with Elliott White Springs that in the event of one of them dying, the other would complete their writings. Springs went on to write this book, an amalgamation of his own recollections and Griders diary and correspondence.War Birds records in detail the stresses of training and the terror and elation of failure and success during combats with the enemy the First World War. This unique edition of War Birds has been produced from a copy owned by another officer from 85 Squadron, Lieutenant Horace Fulford. In his copy, Fulford made numerous handwritten annotations and stuck in a number of previously unpublished photographs all of which have been faithfully reproduced.

When Christmas Comes Again

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Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 9780439439824
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Book Synopsis When Christmas Comes Again by : Beth Seidel Levine

Download or read book When Christmas Comes Again written by Beth Seidel Levine and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2002 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.

To Fight Alongside Friends: The First World War Diaries of Charlie May

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007558546
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis To Fight Alongside Friends: The First World War Diaries of Charlie May by : Gerry Harrison

Download or read book To Fight Alongside Friends: The First World War Diaries of Charlie May written by Gerry Harrison and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I do not want to die. The thought that we may be cut off from each other is so terrible and that our babe may grow up without my knowing her and without her knowing me. It is difficult to face. Know through all your life that I loved you and baby with all my heart and soul, that you two sweet things were just all the world to me’

An English Governess in the Great War

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190276703
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis An English Governess in the Great War by : Mary Thorp

Download or read book An English Governess in the Great War written by Mary Thorp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Thorp, an English governess working for a Belgian-Russian family in German-occupied Brussels, kept a secret war diary from September 1916 to January 1919. This long-forgotten diary sheds light on an important aspect of the First World War: civilian life under military occupation in a transnational conflict.

Diary of a Contraband

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804747080
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Diary of a Contraband by : William Benjamin Gould

Download or read book Diary of a Contraband written by William Benjamin Gould and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author’s great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who served in the United States Navy from 1862 until the end of the war. The diary vividly records Gould’s activity as part of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia; his visits to New York and Boston; the pursuit to Nova Scotia of a hijacked Confederate cruiser; and service in European waters pursuing Confederate ships constructed in Great Britain and France. Gould’s diary is one of only three known diaries of African American sailors in the Civil War. It is distinguished not only by its details and eloquent tone (often deliberately understated and sardonic), but also by its reflections on war, on race, on race relations in the Navy, and on what African Americans might expect after the war. The book includes introductory chapters that establish the context of the diary narrative, an annotated version of the diary, a brief account of Gould’s life in Massachusetts after the war, and William B. Gould IV’s thoughts about the legacy of his great-grandfather and his own journey of discovery in learning about this remarkable man.

Tommy's War

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007285388
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Tommy's War by : Thomas Cairns Livingstone

Download or read book Tommy's War written by Thomas Cairns Livingstone and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.

In the Line of Fire

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ISBN 13 : 9781535342537
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Line of Fire by : Teofil Reiss

Download or read book In the Line of Fire written by Teofil Reiss and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As usual, the medic, Wiatr, hid himself, the doctor had a panic attack and I decided do go by myself to the next trench in spite of the hellish artillery and canon fire. In the trench was Corporal Gorgel, who helped the officer. The scene on the front line was terrible. Blood, pieces of flesh, heads, arms, legs and intestines all around -an awful sight." Almost 100 years have passed since the end of World War I, also known as "the Great War". At the time, it was the largest war to date. Over 16.5 million people were killed in the war; more than 6 million among them were civilians. During the Great War, a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army fought at the frontline trenches and wrote daily in his diary, documenting his experiences there. This man, Teofil Reiss, was an Austro-Hungarian patriot, a professional soldier, a charming ladies' man, and a proud Jew. His practical perspective, trustworthy innocence and open heartedness, merge the details of this diary into a fascinating human document - a rare testimony of a frontline soldier and a picture of an honest man in a senseless war (though, not senseless to him).Almost 100 years after the war, his grandson Tuvia (who was named after him) made the decision to translate and publish his handwritten German diary, adding photos and letters, as well as an epilogue that tells the remarkable story of Teofil Reiss's life during the Nazis' rise to power, and until his death in 1942.

The Great War at Home and Abroad

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great War at Home and Abroad by : William Stull Holt

Download or read book The Great War at Home and Abroad written by William Stull Holt and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holt was just 20 when he joined the American Ambulance Field Service in 1917 and sailed for France. When his six-month stint was over, he enlisted in the American Air Service, won his wings, and was assigned as an observer-bombardier-gunner with the American air squad that dropped more bombs at the front than any other. His diary and letters from March 1917 to July 1919 are accompanied by his photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Diary of a Young Soldier in World War I

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Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780749644185
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Book Synopsis The Diary of a Young Soldier in World War I by : Dennis Hamley

Download or read book The Diary of a Young Soldier in World War I written by Dennis Hamley and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Some Desperate Glory

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Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783031123
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Some Desperate Glory by : Edwin Campion Vaughan

Download or read book Some Desperate Glory written by Edwin Campion Vaughan and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-06-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An officer’s diary hidden away for 40 years reveals the horrors of World War One in harrowing detail.” —The Sun Some Desperate Glory charts the progress of an enthusiastic and patriotic young officer who marched into battle with Palgrave’s Golden Treasury—a collection of English poems—in his pack. Intensely honest and revealing, his diary evokes the day-to-day minutiae of trench warfare: its constant dangers and mind-numbing routine interspersed with lyrical and sometimes comic interludes. Vividly capturing the spirit of the officers and men at the front, the diary grows in horror and disillusionment as Vaughan’s company is drawn into the carnage of Passchendaele from which, of his original happy little band of 90 men, only 15 survived. “This diary of a few months in the life of a young officer on the Western Front in 1917 deserves to rank close behind Graves, Owen, Sassoon, among the most brilliant and harrowing documents of that devastating period.” —Max Hastings, author of Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 “This stark WW I diary by a 19-year-old subaltern in the British army begins with an account of his eager departure for the western front, and ends eight months later with an awesome description of the battle of Ypres in which most of his company died.” —Publishers Weekly

The Last Great War

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521450373
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Great War by : Adrian Gregory

Download or read book The Last Great War written by Adrian Gregory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new history of the British home front during the First World War.

Nella Last's War

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Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847654088
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis Nella Last's War by : Nella Last

Download or read book Nella Last's War written by Nella Last and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Next to being a mother, I'd have loved to write books...' Nella Last, Oct 8, 1939 In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the family tried to adapt to civilian life. Writing each day for the "Mass Observation" project, Nella, a middle-aged housewife from the bombed town of Barrow, shows what people really felt during this time. This was the period in which she turned 50, saw her children leave home, and reviewed her life and her marriage - which she eventually compares to slavery. Her growing confidence as a result of her war work makes this a moving (though often comic) testimony, which, covering sex, death and fear of invasion, provides a new, unglamorised, female perspective on the war years.

A Roumanian Diary

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis A Roumanian Diary by : Hans Carossa

Download or read book A Roumanian Diary written by Hans Carossa and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Some Desperate Glory

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Publisher : Henry Holt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Some Desperate Glory by : Edwin Campion Vaughan

Download or read book Some Desperate Glory written by Edwin Campion Vaughan and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 1988 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Diary of the Great Warr

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Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781354782033
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis A Diary of the Great Warr by : Robert Massie Freeman

Download or read book A Diary of the Great Warr written by Robert Massie Freeman and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.