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Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415033770
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (337 download)
Download or read book The Prisoners, 1914-18 written by Robert Jackson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Yarnall
Publisher : Pitkin
ISBN 13 : 9780752456904
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (569 download)
Download or read book Barbed Wire Disease written by John Yarnall and published by Pitkin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to examine treatment of both British and German prisoners of war during World War I.
Author : Oliver Wilkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107199425
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany written by Oliver Wilkinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original investigation dedicated to the captivity experiences of British military servicemen captured by Germany in the First World War.
Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 184468850X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of the Kaiser written by Richard van Emden and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with survivors of German WWI prison camps, this account documents the heroism and perseverance of British troops in captivity. Drawing on the memories of the last surviving prisoners of the Great war, Prisoners of the Kaiser tells the dramatic story of life as a POW in Germany. Stories include the shock of capture on the Western Front, to the grind of daily life in imprisonment in German prison camps. Veterans recall work in salt mines, punishments, and escape attempts, as well as the torture of starvation and the relief at their eventual release. With over 200 photographs and illustrations, Prisoners of the Kaiser is filled with vivid, moving eye-witness accounts, almost all of which never been have published before.
Author : Tony Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (264 download)
Download or read book German Prisoners of War, 1914-1918 written by Tony Allen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book British Prisoners of War 1914-1918 written by Tony Allen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lewis-Stempel
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297869256
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)
Download or read book The War Behind the Wire written by John Lewis-Stempel and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy. On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely exchanged one barbed-wire battleground for another. In the camps the war was eternal. There was the war against the German military, fought with everything from taunting humour to outright sabotage, with a literal spanner put in the works of the factories and salt mines prisoners were forced to slave in. British PoWs also fought a valiant war against the conditions in which they were mired. They battled starvation, disease, Prussian cruelties, boredom, and their own inner demons. And, of course, they escaped. Then escaped again. No less than 29 officers at Holzminden camp in 1918 burrowed their way out via a tunnel (dug with a chisel and trowel) in the Great Escape of the Great War. It was war with heart-breaking consequences: more than 12,000 PoWs died, many of them murdered, to be buried in shallow unmarked graves. Using contemporary records - from prisoners' diaries to letters home to poetry - John Lewis-Stempel reveals the death, life and, above all, the glory of Britain's warriors behind the wire. For it was in the PoW camps, far from the blasted trenches, that the true spirit of the Tommy was exemplified.
Author : Adolf Lucas Vischer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Barbed Wire Disease written by Adolf Lucas Vischer and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Forder
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265946336
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (463 download)
Download or read book In Brigands' Hands and Turkish Prisons written by A. Forder and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Brigands' Hands and Turkish Prisons: 1914-1918 Of necessity the personal pronoun will be prominent, but as far as possible it shall be obliterated, lest it jar too much on the reader's ears. Chapters XVIII, XIX, and XX are inserted, to put into permanent form the papers read at a Bible school in Jerusalem, this too at the request of hearers and friends. My incarceration as a political prisoner in Damascus for four years, during the late war, gave me time and opportunity for writing what is herein contained. Any repetitions, errors in dates, names, or such like, must be pardoned by the reader, for the absence of all books and papers to refer to is the cause of any such. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Sarah Kovner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 067473761X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of the Empire written by Sarah Kovner and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sarah Kovner shows poorly trained guards and rogue commanders inflicted the most horrific damage. Camps close to centers of imperial power tended to be less violent, and many POWs died from friendly fire.
Author : Carl P. Dennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of the Great War written by Carl P. Dennett and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Catlett Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of My Services in the World War, 1917-1918 written by George Catlett Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George C. Marshall was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, Marshall served as the United States Army Chief of Staff during the war and as the chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As Secretary of State, his name was given to the Marshall Plan, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. He drafted this manuscript while he was in Washington, D.C., between 1919 and 1924 as aide-de-camp to General of the Armies John J. Pershing. However, given the growing bitterness of the "memoirs wars" of the period he decided against publication, and the draft sat unused until the 1970s when Marshall's step-daughter and her husband decided to publish it.
Author : Alexander Watson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465056873
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Ring of Steel written by Alexander Watson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prize-winning, magisterial history of World War I from the perspective of the defeated Central Powers For the Central Powers, the First World War started with high hopes for an easy victory. But those hopes soon deteriorated as Germany's attack on France failed, Austria-Hungary's armies suffered catastrophic losses, and Britain's ruthless blockade brought both nations to the brink of starvation. The Central powers were trapped in the Allies' ever-tightening Ring of Steel. In this compelling history, Alexander Watson retells the war from the perspective of its losers: not just the leaders in Berlin and Vienna, but the people of Central Europe. The war shattered their societies, destroyed their states, and imparted a poisonous legacy of bitterness and violence. A major reevaluation of the First World War, Ring of Steel is essential for anyone seeking to understand the last century of European history.
Author : Alon Rachamimov
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472578147
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book POWs and the Great War written by Alon Rachamimov and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint Winner of Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History 2001, London. Winner of Talmon Prize, Israel, awarded by the Israeli Academy of Sciences. Although it was one of the most common experiences of combatants in World War I, captivity has received only a marginal place in the collective memory of the Great War and has seemed unimportant compared with the experiences of soldiers on the Western Front. Yet this book, focusing on POWs on the Eastern Front, reveals a different picture of the War and the human misery it produced. During four years of fighting, approximately 8.5 million soldiers were taken captive, of whom nearly 2.8 million were Austro-Hungarians. This book is the first to consider in-depth the experiences of these prisoners during their period of incarceration. How were POWs treated in Russia? What was the relationship between prisoners and their home state? How were concepts of patriotism and loyalty employed and understood? Drawing extensively on original letters and diaries, Rachamimov answers these and other searching questions. In the process, major omissions in previous historiography are addressed. Anyone wishing to have a rounded history of the Great War will find this book fills a major gap.
Author : Louis Barthas
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030020695X
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Poilu written by Louis Barthas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exceptionally vivid memoir of a French soldier’s experience of the First World War.”—Max Hastings, New York Times bestselling author Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. First published in France in 1978, this excellent new translation brings Barthas’ wartime writings to English-language readers for the first time. His notebooks and letters represent the quintessential memoir of a “poilu,” or “hairy one,” as the untidy, unshaven French infantryman of the fighting trenches was familiarly known. Upon Barthas’ return home in 1919, he painstakingly transcribed his day-to-day writings into nineteen notebooks, preserving not only his own story but also the larger story of the unnumbered soldiers who never returned. Recounting bloody battles and endless exhaustion, the deaths of comrades, the infuriating incompetence and tyranny of his own officers, Barthas also describes spontaneous acts of camaraderie between French poilus and their German foes in trenches just a few paces apart. An eloquent witness and keen observer, Barthas takes his readers directly into the heart of the Great War. “This is clearly one of the most readable and indispensable accounts of the death of the glory of war.”—The Daily Beast (“Hot Reads”)
Author : Muzeum Ziemi Mińskiej
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788394199050
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Canteens of prisoners of war 1914-1918 compared with the ones of occupants written by Muzeum Ziemi Mińskiej and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mahon Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418074
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Colonial Captivity during the First World War written by Mahon Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new analysis of internment outside Europe helps us to understand the First World War as a truly global conflict.
