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History of the Great War (All 6 Volumes)

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026881559
Total Pages : 1237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book History of the Great War (All 6 Volumes) written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 1237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a complete six-volume history of the First World War, written during the war by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle interviewed army generals, read their papers and diaries, and he also talked to numerous soldiers in order to get a full picture. He describes all the main battles of the British Army, offering very detailed accounts of battles, where great feats of bravery and courage are given. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle is also known for writing the fictional adventures of Professor Challenger and for propagating the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

A History of the Great War

Author : John Buchan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Great War written by John Buchan and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Popular History of the United States of America

Author : John Clark Ridpath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book A Popular History of the United States of America written by John Clark Ridpath and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The popular history of England

Author : Charles Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The popular history of England written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great War and Medieval Memory

Author : Stefan Goebel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521854156
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Great War and Medieval Memory written by Stefan Goebel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies. Taking medievalism as a mode of public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an unprecedented human catastrophe.

Memorials of the Great War in Britain

Author : Alex King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845209524
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Memorials of the Great War in Britain written by Alex King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as its focus memorials of the First World War in Britain, this book brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a widely valued form of collective expression. It examines how the memorials were produced, what was said about them, how support for them was mobilized and behaviour around them regulated. These memorials were the sites of contested, multiple and ambiguous meanings, yet out of them a united public observance was created. The author argues that this was possible because the interpretation of them as symbols was part of a creative process in which new meanings for traditional forms of memorial were established and circulated. The memorials not only symbolized emotional responses to the war, but also ambitions for the post-war era. Contemporaries adopted new ways of thinking about largely traditional forms of memorial to fit the uncertain social and political climate of the inter-war years.This book represents a significant contribution to the study of material culture and memory, as well as to the social and cultural history of modern warfare.

Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War

Author : Jeffrey T. Sammons
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700621385
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War written by Jeffrey T. Sammons and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: "I'm an American, and I never retreat." The story, even if apocryphal, captures the mythic status of the Harlem Rattlers, the African-American combat unit that grew out of the 15th New York National Guard, who were said to have never lost a man to capture or a foot of ground that had been taken. It also, in its insistence on American identity, points to a truth at the heart of this book--more than fighting to make the world safe for democracy, the black men of the 369th fought to convince America to live up to its democratic promise. It is this aspect of the storied regiment's history--its place within the larger movement of African Americans for full citizenship in the face of virulent racism--that Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War brings to the fore. With sweeping vision, historical precision, and unparalleled research, this book will stand as the definitive study of the 369th. Though discussed in numerous histories and featured in popular culture (most famously the film Stormy Weather and the novel Jazz), the 369th has become more a matter of mythology than grounded, factually accurate history--a situation that authors Jeffrey T. Sammons and John H. Morrow, Jr. set out to right. Their book--which eschews the regiment's famous nickname, the "Harlem Hellfighters," a name never embraced by the unit itself--tells the full story of the self-proclaimed Harlem Rattlers. Combining the "fighting focus" of military history with the insights of social commentary, Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War reveals the centrality of military service and war to the quest for equality as it details the origins, evolution, combat exploits, and postwar struggles of the 369th. The authors take up the internal dynamics of the regiment as well as external pressures, paying particular attention to the environment created by the presence of both black and white officers in the unit. They also explore the role of women--in particular, the Women's Auxiliary of the 369th--as partners in the struggle for full citizenship. From its beginnings in the 15th New York National Guard through its training in the explosive atmosphere in the South, its singular performance in the French army during World War I, and the pathos of postwar adjustment--this book reveals as never before the details of the Harlem Rattlers' experience, the poignant history of some of its heroes, its place in the story of both World War I and the African American campaign for equality--and its full i

The Myth of the Great War

Author : John Mosier
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060084332
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Great War written by John Mosier and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to 1918 reveals how and why the Germans won the major battles with one-half to one-third fewer casualties than the Allies, and how American troops in 1918 saved the Allies from defeat and a negotiated peace with the Germans.

Doughboys on the Great War

Author : Edward A. Gutiérrez
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700624449
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Doughboys on the Great War written by Edward A. Gutiérrez and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It is impossible to reproduce the state of mind of the men who waged war in 1917 and 1918,” Edward Coffman wrote in The War to End All Wars. In Doughboys on the Great War the voices of thousands of servicemen say otherwise. The majority of soldiers from the American Expeditionary Forces returned from Europe in 1919. Where many were simply asked for basic data, veterans from four states—Utah, Minnesota, Connecticut, and Virginia—were given questionnaires soliciting additional information and “remarks.” Drawing on these questionnaires, completed while memories were still fresh, this book presents a chorus of soldiers’ voices speaking directly of the expectations, motivations, and experiences as infantrymen on the Western Front in World War I. What was it like to kill or maim German soldiers? To see friends killed or maimed by the enemy? To return home after experiencing such violence? Again and again, soldiers wrestle with questions like these, putting into words what only they can tell. They also reflect on why they volunteered, why they fought, what their training was, and how ill-prepared they were for what they found overseas. They describe how they interacted with the civilian populations in England and France, how they saw the rewards and frustrations of occupation duty when they desperately wanted to go home, and—perhaps most significantly—what it all added up to in the end. Together their responses create a vivid and nuanced group portrait of the soldiers who fought with the American Expeditionary Forces on the battlefields of Aisne-Marne, Argonne Forest, Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry, the Marne, Metz, Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, Sedan, and Verdun during the First World War. The picture that emerges is often at odds with the popular notion of the disillusioned doughboy. Though hardened and harrowed by combat, the veteran heard here is for the most part proud of his service, service undertaken for duty, honor, and country. In short, a hundred years later, the doughboy once more speaks in his own true voice.

The Story of the Great War (Vol. 1-8)

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Great War (Vol. 1-8) written by Various Authors and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 3285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eight-volume series titled 'The Story of the Great War' is a comprehensive account of World War I, highlighting the political, social, and military aspects of the conflict. Written by Various Authors, the books are a blend of historical narrative, first-hand accounts, and analysis, providing readers with a deep understanding of the events that unfolded during the war. The literary style is objective and informative, making it a valuable resource for students and history enthusiasts alike. The context of the books is set within the larger scope of World War I literature, offering a detailed and thorough examination of the war's impact on society and culture. Various Authors, a collective of historians, military experts, and researchers, collaborated to produce this monumental work on World War I. Their diverse backgrounds and expertise bring a multidimensional perspective to the narrative, enriching the reader's understanding of the complexities of the conflict. I highly recommend 'The Story of the Great War' series to anyone interested in gaining a comprehensive insight into World War I. The depth of research and the breadth of topics covered make these books essential reading for those looking to delve deeper into the history of the Great War.

The Great War and the Making of the Modern World

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441134611
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Great War and the Making of the Modern World written by Jeremy Black and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new work demonstrates how the outcome of the First World War has formed the modern world we live in today. The First World War was the Great War for its leading participants. In revisiting the events of 1914-1918 a century on, Jeremy Black considers how we now look at the impact of the conflict across the globe and how it came to be World War I in our consciousness. For millions, both soldiers and civilians, the conflict proved fatal. The suffering and loss of the war provides much of its resonance and significance, but this book seeks to throw light beyond this, not least in asking how it ended in victory and defeat. Casting aside the conventional narrative, Jeremy Black returns to a vast range of original sources and investigates not only the key events of the war, but its consequences in restructuring the old order. As its significance has changed with time, and not only with the loss of first-hand testimony, Black considers the struggle not only in its historical context but through its memorialisation today.

Searching for Pop

Author : Michael R. Brookbank
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789014832
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Searching for Pop written by Michael R. Brookbank and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 43, Thomas Brookbank volunteered to join the army in September 1914 just weeks after the start of the war and when the wounded from the first encounters with the German army at Mons and Le Cateau were arriving back in England. There was nothing special about Tom Brookbank. He was a painter and a decorator by trade, but he was swept along in the surge of patriotism that drove hundreds of thousands of ordinary men and women to respond to the Kitchener's call for the raising of a great volunteer army - an enterprise that most military men of the time, friend and foe alike, regarded as a ludicrous waste of time and money. This much was known by family legend, together with knowledge that he had gone to Italy in November 1917 with the 41st Division in response to the near collapse of the Italian army at Caporetto that he ended the war in Belgium with this Division. Tom Brookbank need not have volunteered at all. He was too old to be fighting a soldier and was well over the age group that Kitchener was calling for, but there was also a need for men in the support services behind the lines - the men of the Army Services Corps - and this is where Tom Brookbank and fellow men like him ended up. Early research showed that he did not start the war with the 41st Division, so, what happened to him, what did he do and where did he go? 'Searching for Pop' is the story of a grandson's search for the answers to what he did and where he went between the time he volunteered and his discharge at the end of the war. It illustrates what might be achieved from a very limited amount of initial knowledge by perseverance and the use of the records available in National Archives.

The Scots Guards in the Great War 1914-1918 [Illustrated Edition]

Author : F. Loraine Petre
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786255537
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Scots Guards in the Great War 1914-1918 [Illustrated Edition] written by F. Loraine Petre and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 15 maps and plans. “In 1914 the Scots Guards (Third Regiment of Foot Guards) consisted of two battalions, both in England and two week after the outbreak of war the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion was formed; this battalion did not go abroad but during the course of the war it provided drafts of 11,201 all ranks for the 1st and 2nd Battalions. The 1st Battalion went to France with the 1st (Gds) Brigade, 1st Division on 14 August and served on the Western Front throughout the war; the 2nd Battalion joined the 20th Brigade of the 7th Division when it formed in September 1914, and landed in Belgium on 7 October 1914 and also served on the Western front for the whole of the war. Losses numbered 111 Officers and 2730 Other Ranks; 30 battle honours and 5 VCs were awarded. In August 1915 the Guards Division was formed in France and both battalions were transferred to it, the 1st to the 2nd Guards Brigade, the 2nd to 3rd Guards Brigade. ...This book is set out in chronological order, and though the battalions were not in the same division during the first twelve months of the war their actions are not recorded under separate headings. Thus both battalions were in action during First Ypres and they both appear in the chapter covering that battle. Apart from war diaries, there are extracts from letters and other contributions from those who were there making up the narrative and the result is a plain, straightforward account. From time to time the list of officers present in both battalions is given as are the names of those who became casualties during any specific action.”-Print ed.

How the Pershore Plum Won the Great War

Author : Professor Maggie Andrews
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969083
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book How the Pershore Plum Won the Great War written by Professor Maggie Andrews and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War was won not just on the battlefields but on the Home Front, by the men, women and children left behind. This book explores the lives of the people of Pershore and the surrounding district in wartime, drawing on their memories, letters, postcards, photographs, leaflets and recipes to demonstrate how their hard work in cultivating and preserving fruit and vegetables helped to win the Great War. Pershore plums were used to make jam for the troops; but ensuring these and other fruits and vegetables were grown and harvested required the labour of land girls, Boy Scouts, schoolchildren, Irish labourers and Belgian refugees. When submarine warfare intensified, food shortages occurred and it became vital for Britain to grow more and eat less food. Housewives faced many challenges in feeding their families and so in 1916 the Pershore Women's Institute was formed, providing many women with practical help and companionship during some of Britain's darkest hours in history.

The Great War and the Middle East

Author : Rob Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191506311
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Great War and the Middle East written by Rob Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination. It ushered in new ideologies and radicalised old ones - from Arab nationalism and revolutionary socialism to impassioned forms of atavistic Islamism. It created heroic icons, like the enigmatic Lawrence of Arabia or the modernizing Atatürk, and destroyed others. And it completely re-drew the map of the region, forging a host of new nation states, including Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia - all of them (with the exception of Turkey) under the 'protection' of the victor powers, Britain and France. For many, the self-serving intervention of these powers in the region between 1914 and 1919 is the major reason for the conflicts that have raged there on and off ever since. Yet many of the most commonly accepted assertions about the First World War in the Middle East are more often stated than they are truly tested. Rob Johnson, military historian and former soldier, now seeks to put this right by examining in detail the strategic and operational course of the war in the Middle East. Johnson argues that, far from being a sideshow to the war in Europe, the Middle Eastern conflict was in fact the centre of gravity in a war for imperial domination and prestige. Moreover, contrary to another persistent myth of the First World War in the Middle East, local leaders and their forces were not simply the puppets of the Great Powers in any straightforward sense. The way in which these local forces embraced, resisted, succumbed to, disrupted, or on occasion overturned the plans of the imperialist powers for their own interests in fact played an important role in shaping the immediate aftermath of the conflict - and in laying the foundations for the troubled Middle East that we know today.

Kensington in the Great War

Author : G. I. S. Inglis
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473841909
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Kensington in the Great War written by G. I. S. Inglis and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Kensington were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through. The Royal Borough of Kensington was an area of huge contrasts: vast riches in the south, but marked poverty in the north. It was close enough to the heart of London that national and London-wide affairs often impinged on local life, while local residents might have national reputations. Thus enormous crowds attended the interment at Brompton Cemetery of one of Britain's finest air heroes, Sub-Lieutenant Warneford, striking London policemen left an indelible impression as they marched their way through the Borough, while Kensington resident Mrs Dorothy Peel attempted to teach the nation how to make food economies in answer to the submarine threat, but there are also quirky magistrates, stroppy butchers, Mr Bushman the ultra-patriotic cartoon character, dangerous dog-walkers who would sweep your feet from under you in the dark nights and some vivid first-hand accounts such as watching the first Zeppelin come down. The man who turned Kensington into a Borough at war was undoubtedly William Davison (later Sir William) - Kensington's Mayor throughout the war years. He helped complete the local territorial battalion (the 13th Kensingtons), threw his weight behind recruiting a second battalion, and finally raised a Kitchener battalion from scratch, the 22nd Royal Fusiliers, with all their clothing and accoutrements, and even a fully-fitted hutted camp. He was obliged to display enormous organising energy in the in early years and thereafter seemed to be involved in almost everything, from getting food parcels to POWs to serving on Tribunals.We are fortunate that the Mayor left behind 7 volumes of wartime cuttings, while the local Kensington News was an outstanding source

Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain

Author : David Monger
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846318300
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain written by David Monger and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of the NWAC's activities, propaganda and reception. It demonstrates the significant role played by the NWAC in British society after July 1917, illuminating the local network of agents and committees which conducted its operations and the party political motivations behind these.