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Author : Mark VII (pseud.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916 written by Mark VII (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199971978
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Great War and Modern Memory written by Paul Fussell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in 1970. Today, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, and unapologetic account of the Great War, the war that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. This brilliant work illuminates the trauma and tragedy of modern warfare in fresh, revelatory ways. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who--with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning--most effectively memorialized World War I as an historical experience. Dispensing with literary theory and elevated rhetoric, Fussell grounds literary texts in the mud and trenches of World War I and shows how these poems, diaries, novels, and letters reflected the massive changes--in every area, including language itself--brought about by the cataclysm of the Great War. For generations of readers, this work has represented and embodied a model of accessible scholarship, huge ambition, hard-minded research, and haunting detail. Restored and updated, this new edition includes an introduction by historian Jay Winter that takes into account the legacy and literary career of Paul Fussell, who died in May 2012.
Author : Matthew Richardson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147387811X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Eyewitness on the Somme 1916 written by Matthew Richardson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the soldiers experience of the Battle of the Somme? How did the men who were there record their part in the fighting or remember it afterwards? How can we, 100 years later, gain an insight into one of the most famous and contentious - episodes of the Great War? Matthew Richardsons graphic account, which is based on the vivid personal testimony of those who took part, offers us a direct impression of the reality of the battle from the perspective of the ordinary soldiers and junior officers on the front line. He draws heavily on previously unpublished personal accounts letters, diaries, and memoirs, some never before translated into English to build up a multifaceted picture of the Somme offensive from the first disastrous day of the attack, through the subsequent operations between July and November 1916. In their own words, the soldiers who were caught up in the conflict recall in unflinching detail the fighting across the entire Somme battlefield. The narrative features the recollections of British, Commonwealth, French and American soldiers, and interweaves their testimony with descriptions left by their German adversaries. For the first time in a single volume, the reader has the opportunity to explore all facets of this momentous five-month-long struggle. Over 100 black-and-white contemporary photographs, many previously unpublished, accompany the text, whilst a selection of artifacts recovered from the battlefield is illustrated in colour. These striking objects bear silent witness to the ferocity of the battle, and often reflect some moment of personal tragedy.
Author : George Weston Devenish
Publisher : London : Constable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book A Subaltern's Share in the War written by George Weston Devenish and published by London : Constable. This book was released on 1917 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Atkin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795412
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book A war of individuals written by Jonathan Atkin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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 picture of this fascinating form of anti-war expression.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300225245
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Letters of T. S. Eliot written by T. S. Eliot and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth volume of the personal correspondences of British literary giant T. S. Eliot The letters of T. S. Eliot collected in this sixth volume were written during the years the Nobel Prize–winning poet, playwright, critic, and essayist called, “the happiest I can ever remember in my life.” Penned in large part during his tour of Depression Era America, these letters reflect Eliot’s resolve to end his torturous eighteen-year marriage to his wife, Vivienne, and offer fascinating descriptions of the author’s encounters with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, Marianne Moore, and other notable figures.
Author : Frederick George Aflalo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Literary Year-book written by Frederick George Aflalo and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Pharmaceutical Journal and Pharmacist written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellison Hawks
Publisher : London : Methuen & Company Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Pioneers of Wireless written by Ellison Hawks and published by London : Methuen & Company Limited. This book was released on 1927 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Meredith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Who's who in Literature written by Mark Meredith and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains list of "Fictitious and pseudonymous names."
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1338 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Fletcher
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300198566
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front written by Anthony Fletcher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was inspired by the author’s discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unmentioned for many decades. Intrigued by the heartbreak and history of these family letters, Fletcher sought out the correspondence of other British soldiers who had volunteered for the fight against Germany. This resulting volume offers a vivid account of the physical and emotional experiences of seventeen British soldiers whose letters survive. Drawn from different regiments, social backgrounds, and areas of England and Scotland, they include twelve officers and five ordinary “Tommies.” The book explores the training, journey to France, fear, shellshock, and life in the trenches as well as the leisure, love, and home leave the soldiers dreamed of. Fletcher discusses the psychological responses of 17- and 18-year-old men facing appalling realities and considers the particular pressures on those who survived their fallen comrades. While acknowledging the horror and futility the soldiers of the Great War experienced, the author shows another side to the story, focusing new attention on the loyal comradeship, robust humor, and strong morale that uplifted the men at the Front and created a powerful bond among them.
Author : A. D. Harvey
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445678284
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Testament of War written by A. D. Harvey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The purple testament of bleeding war’ Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, Scene 3, l. 93 Simply the best single-volume analysis of the art and literature of the Great War
Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492233
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Major General Price Davies VC, CB, CMG, DSO written by Peter Robinson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new series of Spellmount Military Memoirs provides rare and sought-after texts for the collector of classic historical works, together with rigorously selected personal narratives never before in print – destined to become classics in their own right. Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies was awarded the Victoria Cross when serving with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the Second Boer War. He went on to serve as Divisional Corps liasion officer in 1914-15, his correspondence offers a rare insight into the changing face of the British Army at this time. In 1916 he took over the 113th Brigade, in a New Army Division 38th (Welsh). The first major test was on the Somme at Mametz Wood, where the divisional commander was sacked. He describes this famous fight and eventual capture of the wood in dramatic detail. Once again in the thick of the fighting at Pilckem Ridge in 1917 on the first day of Third Ypres, his letters show the importance of this battle's success. In 1918 he travelled to Italy, where his diaries reveal for the first time how the Allied Command functioned in this theatre. His constant correspondence with his brother-in-law Henry Wilson, the C.I.G.S., is a unique insight into British Army High Command and this legendary Field Marshal. This rare collection of letters offers a broad and detailed insight into the First World War that will fascinate any enthusiast.
Author : Rothesay Stuart-Wortley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters from a Flying Officer written by Rothesay Stuart-Wortley and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lewis-Stempel
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297869272
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)
Download or read book Where Poppies Blow written by John Lewis-Stempel and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writing The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War 'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.' During the Great War, soldiers lived inside the ground, closer to nature than many humans had lived for centuries. Animals provided comfort and interest to fill the blank hours in the trenches - bird-watching, for instance, was probably the single most popular hobby among officers. Soldiers went fishing in flooded shell holes, shot hares in no-man's land for the pot, and planted gardens in their trenches and billets. Nature was also sometimes a curse - rats, spiders and lice abounded, and disease could be biblical. But above all, nature healed, and, despite the bullets and blood, it inspired men to endure. Where Poppies Blow is the unique story of how nature gave the British soldiers of the Great War a reason to fight, and the will to go on.
