War Letters Of Fallen Englishmen Ed By Laurence Housman

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War Letters of Fallen Englishmen

Author : Laurence Housman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812218152
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book War Letters of Fallen Englishmen written by Laurence Housman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than eight million young men perished during the First World War—a staggering figure. The natural reaction to such a great loss of humanity was to forget the individuals and recast the conflict into one of faceless armies and battles commemorated in stone and metal monuments. War Letters of Fallen Englishmen was published following the war in order to remind the living of those who were lost in the name of the British crown—brothers, husbands, fathers, sons. This collection provides, in the very words of those who participated and died in combat, the closest approximation possible to the experience of war. Carefully selected from thousands of letters, those in this collection are poignant, powerful, and graphic and were chosen for their depth of perception, the intensity of their descriptions, and their messages to future generations. This edition contains a new foreword by the distinguished World War I historian Jay Winter.

War Letters of Fallen Englishmen ; Ed. by Laurence Housman

Author : Laurence Housman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book War Letters of Fallen Englishmen ; Ed. by Laurence Housman written by Laurence Housman and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lost Generation. A Handful of Letters Extracted from "War Letters of Fallen Englishmen"

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Author : Laurence Housman
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Lost Generation. A Handful of Letters Extracted from "War Letters of Fallen Englishmen" written by Laurence Housman and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A War of Individuals

Author : Jonathan Atkin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719060717
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book A War of Individuals written by Jonathan Atkin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws together for the very first time examples of the 'aesthetic pacifism' practised during the Great War by such celebrated individuals as Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon and Bertrand Russell. In addition, the book outlines the stories of those less well-known who shared the mind-set of the Bloomsbury Group when it came to facing the first 'total war'. The research for this study took five years, gathering evidence from all the major archives in Great Britain and abroad. This is the first time that such wide-ranging evidence has been placed together in order to paint a complete pi.

The Countryside at War 1914-1918

Author : Caroline Dakers
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472113373
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Countryside at War 1914-1918 written by Caroline Dakers and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When war broke out in 1914 conscription seemed unnecessary; there was no shortage of volunteers ready to lay down their lives for their country. In this fascinating book, illustrated with contemporary drawings and photographs, Caroline Dakers explores exactly what their 'country' meant to the men and women who fought, died, survived. She suggests that, with a little subliminal help from literature, art and propaganda, the British volunteer, whether factory worker, farm hand or public school boy, felt that he was fighting for old England - village, church, meadow and carthorse, rather than city, factory, commerce and motor car. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished papers and family archives, Dr Dakers recreates the world of the countryside at war. There are chapters on agriculture (literally 'the home front'), and life and death in the manor house, vicarage, school and farm. And while all this was being fought for, The French countryside was smashed into a quagmire. This is the most complete picture yet of the impact of the First World War on rural England; a war which, if only in the ubiquitous village war memorials, still reverberates across the decades.

Stand in the Trench, Achilles

Author : Elizabeth Vandiver
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191609218
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Stand in the Trench, Achilles written by Elizabeth Vandiver and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Vandiver examines the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Vandiver argues that classics was a crucial source for writers from a wide variety of backgrounds, from working-class poets to those educated in public schools, and for a wide variety of political positions and viewpoints. Poets used references to classics both to support and to oppose the war from its beginning all the way to the Armistice and after. By exploring the importance of classics in the poetry of the First World War, Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.

God on the Western Front

Author : Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271095989
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book God on the Western Front written by Joseph F. Byrnes and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1914 to 1918, religious believers and hopeful skeptics tried to find meaning and purpose behind divinely willed destruction. God on the Western Front is a history of lived religion across national boundaries, religious affiliations, and class during World War I, utilizing an expansive record of primary sources. Joseph F. Byrnes takes readers on a tour of the battlefields of France, listening to the words of German, French, and English soldiers; going behind the lines to hear from the men and women who provided pastoral and medical care; and reviewing the religious writings of priests, bishops, ministers, and rabbis as they tried to make sense of it all. The story begins with citizens at home as they responded to the obligation to make war and then focuses on the “God-talk” and “nation-talk” that soldiers used to express their foundational religious experiences. Byrnes’s study attends to the words of average men who struggled to articulate their religious sentiments, alongside the generals Helmuth von Moltke, Ferdinand Foch, and Douglas Haig and the soldier theologians Franz Rosenzweig, Paul Tillich, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy. In doing so, he shows how religious and battle experience are intertwined and showcases the wide range of spiritual responses that emerged across boundaries. Going beyond the typical constraints of studies focused either on one nation or one confessional affiliation, Byrnes’s international and interfaith approach breaks new ground. It will appeal to scholars and students of modern European history, religious history, and the history of war.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Author : Erich Maria Remarque
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1037700104
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novella of the First World War, All Quiet on the Western Front, was an international sensation. Celebrated by countless readers for its moving depiction of the traumas suffered and the camaraderie shared in the trenches, the work also sparked controversy on all sides of the political spectrum, with Remarque, now a celebrity, claimed as a representative of various political causes. In this edition, Katharina Rout’s fresh, engaging English translation of All Quiet is accompanied by an informative introduction and illuminating contextual materials that help situate Remarque’s work among other literary and nonfictional accounts of the war experience and offer insight into how the novella was received.

The Winter of the World

Author : Dominic Hibberd
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 147211423X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Winter of the World written by Dominic Hibberd and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new anthology brings together 270 poems and is the most complete and authoritative ever compiled. Arranged by year rather than by poet, it is the first to reveal how poetry developed between 1914 and 1918, and afterwards from 1919 - 1930. The poetry that came out of the First World War exposed, for the first time in history, the real horror of war. The result is an extraordinary record of passionate feelings and appalling experiences, written by men and women from widely different backgrounds, of unique and enduring importance. All the major poets are generously represented, Owen, Brooke, Sassoon, Blunden, Gurney, Graves and Rosenberg, but here too are many unfamiliar yet remarkable poems from the less familiar, Joseph Leftwich, F S Flint, 'Touchstone'; female poets: Edith Sitwell; Vera Brittain, Eleanor Farjeon; and writers not always associated with WWI poetry, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and Ezra Pound. Accompanying notes to the poems, historical events and the poets give precise, relevant information and suggest links to other poems, so the book as a whole forms a fascinating, moving narrative. Praise for Poetry of the Great War: An Anthology: 'This splendid anthology...immaculately crafted...wide and authorative...[is] recommended unhesitatingly to both a popular and academic readership. Choice, USA Praise for Wilfred Owen: A New Biography: 'Rich, compelling, formidably researched.' John Carey, Sunday Times

The Wallenstein Figure in German Literature and Historiography 1790-1920

Author : Steffan Davies
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1906540284
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Wallenstein Figure in German Literature and Historiography 1790-1920 written by Steffan Davies and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583-1634), one of the most famous and controversial personalities of the Thirty Years War, gained heightened prominence in the nineteenth century through Schiller's monumental drama Wallenstein (1798-99). This study tests Schiller's impact on historians as well as on later literary texts.

Edith Cavell

Author : Diana Souhami
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623652391
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Edith Cavell written by Diana Souhami and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Cavell was born on 4th December 1865, daughter of the vicar of Swardeston in Norfolk, and shot in Brussels on 12th October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border. Following a traditional village childhood in 19th century England, Edith worked as a governess in the UK and abroad, before training as a nurse in London in 1895. To Edith, nursing was a duty, a vocation, but above all a service. By 1907, she had travelled most of Europe and become matron of her own hospital in Belgium, where, under her leadership, a ramshackle hospital with few staff and little organization became a model nursing school. When war broke out, Edith helped soldiers to escape the war by giving them jobs in her hospital, finding clothing and organizing safe passage into Holland. In all, she assisted over two hundred men. When her secret work was discovered, Edith was put on trial and sentenced to death by firing squad. She uttered only 130 words in her defense. A devout Christian, the evening before her death, she asked to be remembered as a nurse, not a hero or a martyr, and prayed to be fit for heaven. When news of Edith's death reached Britain, army recruitment doubled. After the war, Edith's body was returned to the UK by train and every station through which the coffin passed was crowded with mourners. Diana Souhami brings one of the Great War's finest heroes to life in this biography of a hardworking, courageous and independent woman.

A Deep Cry

Author : Anne Powell
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752480367
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book A Deep Cry written by Anne Powell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives, deaths, poetry, diaries and extracts from letters of sixty-six soldier-poets are brought together in this limited edition of Anne Powell's unique anthology; a fitting commemoration for the centenary of the First World War. These poems are not simply the works of well-known names such as Wilfred Owen – though they are represented – they have been painstakingly collected from a multitude of sources, and the relative obscurity of some of the voices makes the message all the more moving. Moreover, all but five of these soldiers lie within forty-five miles of Arras. Their deaths are described here in chronological order, with an account of each man's last battle. This in itself provides a revealing gradual change in the poetry from early naïve patriotism to despair about the human race and the bitterness of 'Dulce et Decorum Est'.

Verdun and the Somme

Author : Harro Grabolle
Publisher : Akademiai Kiado
ISBN 13 : 9789630581929
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Verdun and the Somme written by Harro Grabolle and published by Akademiai Kiado. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of British and German prose fiction written between 1916 and 1937, with different ideological points of view. Authors represented include, from Germany, Fritz von Unruh, Josef M. Wehner, Werner Beumelburg, Arnold Zweig, and from Britain, Alec J. Dawson, Alan P. Herbert, Arthur D. Gristwood, Frederic Manning and David Jones.

The Church of England and the First World War

Author : Alan Wilkinson
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718841646
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book The Church of England and the First World War written by Alan Wilkinson and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Church of England and the First World War (first published in 1978) explores in depth the role of the church during the tragic circumstances of the First World War using biographies, newspapers, magazines, letters, poetry and other sources in a balanced evaluation. The myth that the war was fought by 'lions led by donkeys' powerfully endures turning heroes into victims. Alan Wilkinson demonstrates the sheer horror, moral ambiguity, and the interaction between religion, the church and warwith a scholarly, and yet poetic, hand. The author creates a vivid image of the church and society, includes views of the Free Churches and Roman Catholics, portrays the pastoral problems and challenges to faith presented by war, and the pressures for reform of church and society. The Church of England and the First World War is written with compelling compassion and great historical understanding, making the book hard to put down. This expert and classic study will grip the religious and secular alike, the general reader or the student.

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787445
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

What History Tells

Author : Stanley G. Payne
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299194132
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book What History Tells written by Stanley G. Payne and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-03-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What History Tells presents an impressive collection of critical papers from the September 2001 conference "An Historian’s Legacy: George L. Mosse and Recent Research on Fascism, Society, and Culture." This book examines his historiographical legacy first within the context of his own life and the internal development of his work, and secondly by tracing the many ways in which Mosse influenced the subsequent study of contemporary history, European cultural history and modern Jewish history. The contributors include Walter Laqueur, David Sabean, Johann Sommerville, Emilio Gentile, Roger Griffin, Saul Friedländer, Jay Winter, Rudy Koshar, Robert Nye, Janna Bourke, Shulamit Volkov, and Steven E. Aschheim.

The Social and Political Body

Author : Theodore R. Schatzki
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572301405
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Social and Political Body written by Theodore R. Schatzki and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the provocative premise that the body is the anchor of the social order, this book delves into the multidimensional relationship between sociopolitical bodies and human bodies. It explores the way that prevailing economic and political institutions affect our experience of our physical selves and, in turn, the ways that our bodily senses, energies, activities and desires reinforce or challenge the status quo.