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Author | : John Toland |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0525563261 |
Download No Man's Land Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
1918: The end of the war to end all wars. The end of an era for victors and vanquished alike. When Germany launched the Ludendorf Offensives—the most massive military bombardment of World War I—they seemed certain to win. But when American troops began arriving in droves, the Allies' certain defeat became a decisive victory. No Man's Land takes us into the trenches, behind enemy lines, into military strategy sessions and through the corridors of power in London, Paris, Berlin, and Washington in a brilliant account of one of the most fateful years in Western history. Drawing on new sources—diaries, memoirs, vivid personal experiences—here is a book that for sheer excitement, drama, vigor, and emotional impact rivals the greatest novels, history marvelously told by the incomparable John Toland. "A compelling human picture...a marvelous job by a master of the big-canvas history." Business Week
Author | : J. M. Winter |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300127529 |
Download Remembering War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a masterful volume on remembrance and war in the twentieth century. Jay Winter locates the fascination with the subject of memory within a long-term trajectory that focuses on the Great War. Images, languages, and practices that appeared during and after the two world wars focused on the need to acknowledge the victims of war and shaped the ways in which future conflicts were imagined and remembered. At the core of the "memory boom" is an array of collective meditations on war and the victims of war, Winter says. The book begins by tracing the origins of contemporary interest in memory, then describes practices of remembrance that have linked history and memory, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. The author also considers "theaters of memory"-film, television, museums, and war crimes trials in which the past is seen through public representations of memories. The book concludes with reflections on the significance of these practices for the cultural history of the twentieth century as a whole.
Author | : Various |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-04-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763675547 |
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Combines evocative photographs and illustrations in a treasury of stories by 11 international writers that were inspired by artifacts connected to World War I. Illustrated by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist of A Monster Calls.
Author | : Lindsay Mattick |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1444949853 |
Download Winnie's Great War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Everyone has heard of Winnie-the-Pooh, but not everyone knows about the real Canadian bear who lent him her name. This is a wonderful tale of courage and friendship, for fans of Michael Morpurgo. Come on a heart-warming adventure, inspired by the journey undertaken by an extraordinary bear called Winnie during World War One. From her early days with her mama in the Canadian forest, to her travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, Winnie has a remarkable wartime story to tell. And when she meets a little boy called Christopher Robin Milne in London Zoo, he loves her so much that he names his teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh in her honour. Sophie Blackall's wonderful black and white artwork brings Winnie to life and will capture young readers' imaginations. The author, Lindsay Mattick, is the great grand-daughter of Captain Harry Colebourn - who originally rescued Winnie as a cub - and the story contains entries from his real wartime diaries from WW1. The book also includes a selection of artefacts from the Colebourn Family Archives. The result is a one-of-a-kind exploration into the realities of war, the meaning of courage, and the power of friendship, all told through the historic adventures of one astonishing bear.
Author | : G. J. Meyer |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 818 |
Release | : 2007-05-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0553382403 |
Download A World Undone Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world “Thundering, magnificent . . . [A World Undone] is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. . . . It will earn generations of admirers.”—The Washington Times On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War: four long years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until 1914 had dominated the globe. Praise for A World Undone “Meyer’s sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire . . . are lifelike and plausible. His account of the tragic folly of Gallipoli is masterful. . . . [A World Undone] has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured”—Los Angeles Times “An original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century.”—Steve Gillon, resident historian, The History Channel
Author | : C.R.M.F. Cruttwell |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0897336607 |
Download A History of the Great War, 1914–1918 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This vivid, detailed history of World War I presents the general reader with an accurate and readable account of the campaigns and battles, along with brilliant portraits of the leaders and generals of all countries involved. Scrupulously fair, praising and blaming friend and enemy as circumstances demand, this has become established as the classic account of the first world-wide war.
Author | : Lisa Miles |
Publisher | : Sticker Histories |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781783120703 |
Download The First World War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1914, the world went to the war--and in the next four years, millions of lives were lost. In the wake of the recent centenary of the conflict, this sticker book provides a hands-on, sensitive, and child-friendly approach to exploring this transformative period of history. It offers more than 150 stickers to complete double-page war scenes and activities, along with fully integrated background information to engage kids and help them learn as they play. You can add sticker soldiers to complete a cutaway view of a trench on the Western Front; put tanks on a fact file; discover true stories of bravery, and much more.
Author | : Frederick Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Modris Eksteins |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2012-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307361772 |
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Named "One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada" (The Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins. Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, Rites of Spring probes the origins, the impact and the aftermath of World War I--from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du Printemps in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point...for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places." In this extraordinary book, Eksteins goes on to chart the seismic shifts in human consciousness brought about by this great cataclysm through the lives and words of ordinary people, works of literature, and such events as Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and the publication of the first modern bestseller, All Quiet on the Western Front. Rites of Spring is a remarkable and rare work, a cultural history that redefines the way we look at our past and toward our future.
Author | : Frederick Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
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