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Author | : Caroline Dakers |
Publisher | : Constable |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2013-09-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1472113373 |
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When war broke out in 1914 conscription seemed unnecessary; there was no shortage of volunteers ready to lay down their lives for their country. In this fascinating book, illustrated with contemporary drawings and photographs, Caroline Dakers explores exactly what their 'country' meant to the men and women who fought, died, survived. She suggests that, with a little subliminal help from literature, art and propaganda, the British volunteer, whether factory worker, farm hand or public school boy, felt that he was fighting for old England - village, church, meadow and carthorse, rather than city, factory, commerce and motor car. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished papers and family archives, Dr Dakers recreates the world of the countryside at war. There are chapters on agriculture (literally 'the home front'), and life and death in the manor house, vicarage, school and farm. And while all this was being fought for, The French countryside was smashed into a quagmire. This is the most complete picture yet of the impact of the First World War on rural England; a war which, if only in the ubiquitous village war memorials, still reverberates across the decades.
Author | : Caroline Dakers |
Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781784534844 |
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When war broke out in 1914 conscription seemed unnecessary; there was no shortage of volunteers ready to lay down their lives for England. In this book Caroline Dakers explores exactly what 'England' meant to the men and women who fought, died, survived. She suggests that, with a little subliminal help from literature, art and propaganda, the British volunteer, whether factory worker, farm hand or public school boy, felt that he was fighting for a vision of 'old England' - village, church, meadow and carthorse, rather than city, factory, commerce and motor car. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished papers and family archives, Dakers recreates the world of the countryside at war, through chapters on agriculture (literally 'the home front'), and life and death in the manor house, vicarage, school and farm. And while all this was being fought for, the French countryside was being smashed into a quagmire. This is the most complete picture yet of the impact of the World War I on rural England; a war which, if only in the ubiquitous village war memorials, still reverberates today.
Author | : Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell |
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Release | : 1934 |
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Author | : Charles à Court Repington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
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Author | : Trevor Yorke |
Publisher | : Countryside Books (GB) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781846743177 |
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"The First World War scarred an entire generation at the beginning of the twentieth century ... This book offers a simple guide to the war, looking at the events and the people who took part, through what was the setting for so much of the carnage; the trench. The trenches and the trench system along the Western Front in particular, were the killing fields. They formed a vast line of fortifications that locked the opposing armies together in a static, 400 mile zigzag of conflict from the channel coast down to the French border with Switzerland. Using his own diagrams and illustrations, ... Yorke explains the architecture of the trenches, with their command posts, tunnels, machine gun nests, duck boards and sleeping billets. There are chapters to explain tactics, weaponry and daily life ... special features on the introduction of new weapons of war, such as tanks, early aeroplanes and the first use of poison gas. The political events are described in basic outline, but there is a chapter on the legacy of the war's aftermath. There are summaries of the major battles and there is information about special places to visit in France and Belgium, including key museums, battle sites and memorials"--Back cover.
Author | : Charles a. Court 1858-1925 Repington |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2016-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781362368083 |
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Author | : Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 655 |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : Imperial War Museum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Charles à Court Repington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1920 |
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Author | : District of Columbia. Public Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
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