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Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702234477
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Inventing Anzac written by Graham Seal and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Author : Max Arthur (Military historian)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book When this Bloody War is Over written by Max Arthur (Military historian) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max Arthur
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book When this Bloody War is Over written by Max Arthur and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this bloody war is over, No more soldiering for me. This book brings together the words - humorous, cynical, bitter, wistful - of the songs the soldiers of the First World War sang. The haunting songs of the First World War still have a powerful emotional impact; these are the words the soldiers actually sang - on the march, in the dug-outs and trenches - amidst the appalling carnage of the battlefield. The stoic courage and endurance of the ordinary soldiers shines through such songs as We are Fred Karno's Army, No More Soldiering for Me and It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary. Each song is introduced by Max Arthur, giving its historical background. Together with contemporary cartoons and drawings, this attractive, evocative book cannot fail to delight and move anyone with an interest in the First World War.
Author : Max Arthur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781842621882
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)
Download or read book When This Bloody War Is Over written by Max Arthur and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldiers' songs of the First World War The songs of the First World War represent the ascendancy of the human spirit over the cruel inhumanity of the war. They still possess a haunting power - by turns funny, cynical, angry and wistful. Max Arthur has collected together the lyrics of nearly 100 of the songs that the soldiers sang on the march, in the trenches and in their rare moments of rest. They include "Keep the Home Fires Burning", "Good-bye-ee!", "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty", and many more. Each song is annotated by the author, giving the historical background and tune wherever possible.
Author : Max Arthur (Military historian)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)
Download or read book When this Bloody War is Over written by Max Arthur (Military historian) and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max Arthur
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 : 9780708861479
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (614 download)
Download or read book When This Bloody War Is Over B written by Max Arthur and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcus Clapham
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509848797
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Poetry of the First World War written by Marcus Clapham and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undreamed of by the young men who cheerfully volunteered for a war that was supposed to be over by Christmas. Whether in the patriotic enthusiasm of Rupert Brooke, the disillusionment of Charles Hamilton Sorley, or the bitter denunciations of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the war produced an astonishing outpouring of powerful poetry. Edited by author and editor Marcus Clapham, the major poets are all represented in this beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library anthology, Poetry of the First World War, alongside many others whose voices are less well known, and their verse is accompanied by contemporary motifs. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
Author : Tim Kendall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191642045
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Poetry of the First World War written by Tim Kendall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.
Author : Matthew George Walter
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141922885
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry written by Matthew George Walter and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind. This is what makes this volume more accessible and satisfying than others. In addition to the established canon there are poems rarely anthologised and a selection of soldiers' songs to reflect the voices of the soldiers themselves.
Author : Thomas Childers
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618773681
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Soldier from the War Returning written by Thomas Childers and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called "Good War." The Greatest Generation, we're told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They quickly and cheerfully went on with the business of rebuilding their lives. In this shocking and hauntingly beautiful book, historian Thomas Childers shatters that myth. He interweaves the intimate story of three families--including his own--with a decades' worth of research to paint an entirely new picture of the war's aftermath. Drawing on government documents, interviews, oral histories and diaries, he reveals that 10,000 veterans a month were being diagnosed with psycho-neurotic disorder (now known as PTSD). Alcoholism, homelessness, and unemployment were rampant, leading to a skyrocketing divorce rate. Many veterans bounced back, but their struggle has been lost in a wave of nostalgia that threatens to undermine a new generation of returning soldiers. Novelistic in its telling and impeccably researched, Childers's book is a stark reminder that the price of war is unimaginably high. The consequences are human, not just political, and the toll can stretch across generations.
Author : Rosie Serdiville
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750954892
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Ode to Bully Beef written by Rosie Serdiville and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War (1939–45) was not greeted with the same lavish outpouring of patriotic fervour that had attended August 1914. Any rags of glory had long since been drowned in the mud of Flanders. The Great War had been heralded as 'the war to end all wars'; veterans were promised 'a land fit for heroes'. Both of these vain boasts soon began to sound hollow as depression, unemployment, poverty and a rash of new wars followed. The sons and daughters of those who had embarked upon their own patriotic Calvary did so again in an altogether more sombre spirit. One significant difference between the two conflicts is that, whilst both were industrial wars, the Second World War was far nearer the concept of total war. The growth of strategic air power, in its infancy in 1918, had by 1939 become a reality. In this war, even more widespread and terrible than the last, there were to be no civilians. Death sought new victims everywhere; British citizens were now in the front line, there was to be no respite, no hiding place. This is the poetry and prose of those who were there, ordinary people caught in the terrible maelstrom of mass conflict on a scale hitherto unimagined; this is their testimony.
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Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853264443
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (644 download)
Download or read book The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry written by and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and his fellow poets - Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley and many others - that we do remember. This new anthology will serve as an introduction to the poetry of that great conflict, and the inclusion of a number of rarely anthologised poets, many from the ranks, as well as anonymous poems and songs, serves to bring a quality of freshness to the selection.
Author : D. Welch
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230393292
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Justifying War written by D. Welch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new assessment of the debates about Just War in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the imperial wars of the nineteenth century through the age of total war, the evolution of human rights discourse and international law, to proportionality during the Cold War and the redefinition of authority with the ascendancy of terror groups.
Author : Brian MacArthur
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0349140499
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book For King And Country written by Brian MacArthur and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far more than an anthology, FOR KING AND COUNTRY is Brian MacArthur's attempt to write a history of the First World War by drawing on the writings of those who were present at the events they describe. Those writings will be drawn from a broad range of sources: from, most obviously, the officers and men who served on the western front at the Somme and elsewhere, accounts of fear and tedium, horror and occasional joy; also from those were left behind on the home front to wait for news of their loved ones. As well as letters, diary entries and memoir extracts, the book will also include the songs sung in the trenches by the men at the front; there are poems too, the less well known alongside the familiar. The material reproduced will be linked by Brian MacArthur's commentary and notes to create a seamless and movingly immediate narrative of the First World War.
Author : Chris Bourke
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775589471
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Good-bye Maoriland written by Chris Bourke and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They left their Southern Lands, They sailed across the sea; They fought the Hun, they fought the Turk For truth and liberty. Now Anzac Day has come to stay, And bring us sacred joy; Though wooden crosses be swept away – We'll never forget our boys. – Jane Morison, ‘We'll never forget our boys', 1917 Be it ‘Tipperary' or ‘Pokarekare', the morning reveille or the bugle's last post, concert parties at the front or patriotic songs at home, music was central to New Zealand's experience of the First World War. In Good-Bye Maoriland, the acclaimed author of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music introduces us the songs and sounds of World War I in order to take us deep inside the human experience of war.
Author : Jacques R. Pauwels
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459411072
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (594 download)
Download or read book The Great Class War 1914-1918 written by Jacques R. Pauwels and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Jacques Pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the First World War, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. As Pauwels sees it, war offered benefits to everyone, across class and national borders. For European statesmen, a large-scale war could give their countries new colonial territories, important to growing capitalist economies. For the wealthy and ruling classes, war served as an antidote to social revolution, encouraging workers to exchange socialism's focus on international solidarity for nationalism's intense militarism. And for the working classes themselves, war provided an outlet for years of systemic militarization -- quite simply, they were hardwired to pick up arms, and to do so eagerly. To Pauwels, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914 -- traditionally upheld by historians as the spark that lit the powder keg -- was not a sufficient cause for war but rather a pretext seized upon by European powers to unleash the kind of war they had desired. But what Europe's elite did not expect or predict was some of the war's outcomes: social revolution and Communist Party rule in Russia, plus a wave of political and social democratic reforms in Western Europe that would have far-reaching consequences. Reflecting his broad research in the voluminous recent literature about the First World War by historians in the leading countries involved in the conflict, Jacques Pauwels has produced an account that challenges readers to rethink their understanding of this key event of twentieth century world history.
Author : Ronald Lyell Munro
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473872774
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Above the Battle written by Ronald Lyell Munro and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare memoir of serving as an AOP pilot—one of the most daring and dangerous jobs in World War II. Includes maps and photos. In April 1943, a young officer arrived at Penshurst to join C Flight, 653 Squadron. He was no ordinary pilot, and this was no ordinary RAF outfit. Lyell Munro was a soldier and 653 was an Air Observation Post Squadron whose pilots were Royal Artillery and whose ground crew were RAF. AOP pilots were expert gunners, skilled flyers, and incurable rule breakers. Flying from airstrips just behind the front lines, without armament and often with no parachute, they controlled the fire of hundreds of guns and their enemies learned to dread the sight of the little green Austers in the skies above the battlefield. An incautious movement, a puff of smoke or a chance flash of reflected sunlight could bring tons of high explosives raining down. They flew alone without ground control, scanning the skies constantly while they directed the guns. Closing at over 250mph, an attacking ME 109 left no time for indecision. Reactions had to be instinctive and evasive action instant. Failure was fatal. After the war ended, the survivors went back into civilian life and few histories mention them or what they did. Lyell’s is one of only two personal accounts that are known to exist, and it is likely that there will be no more. Written for his family and his comrades in C Flight, Above the Battle is a story told without heroics, but with a deep affection for the men with whom he flew and worked.
