The Great World War: Lightning strikes twice
Author | : Peter Liddle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter Liddle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Liddle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : 9780004724546 |
Author | : Peter Liddle |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 765 |
Release | : 2015-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0007598181 |
Comparing and contrasting the World Wars.
Author | : John Bourne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : 9780004724546 |
Author | : Lew Freedman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2021-04-16 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476681570 |
In June of 1938, southpaw Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds became the only pitcher in Major League history to hurl two consecutive no-hitters--an achievement that has stood unsurpassed for more than 80 years. Vander Meer was just 23 at the time and a glorious future was predicted. Despite injuries, he became a four-time All-Star yet ended up a .500 pitcher--not a surefire Hall of Famer as many expected. Both the Reds and Vander Meer persevered, but decades later the left-hander is best remembered for his stunning no-hit package. This volume follows Vander Meer and the Reds through the triumphs of two National League pennants and one World Series title, the hardship of World War II, and the trying suicide of a teammate.
Author | : Lesley Milne |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2016-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443887684 |
War is no laughing matter. During a war, however, laughter can play a vital role in sustaining morale, both in the armies at the Front and in their homelands. Among wars, the 1914–18 conflict has left a haunting legacy, and remains a central topic in modern European history. This book offers a comparative study of the impact of the war in four countries, and breaks new ground by exploring this through the medium of what their respective populations laughed at. By searching the pages of four humorous-satirical magazines, Punch in the UK, Le Rire (France), Simplicissimus (Germany), and Novy Satirikon (Russia), all of which supported the national war efforts, it examines the ways in which humour made an important contribution to the propaganda war. All four magazines were famous for their cartoons, a selection of which is included, but much of the humour was expressed through the written word, in skits, squibs, comic tales, and light verse. Translated into English, these snapshots of the moment are brought together to chart the responses on both sides of the conflict to issues and unfolding events, identifying the stories that nations liked to tell about themselves and also the ones they liked to be told.
Author | : Heather Jones |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 591 |
Release | : 2021-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108682960 |
This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to consolidate the crown's sacralised status. She looks at how the monarchy engaged with war recruitment, bereavement, gender norms, as well as at its political and military powers and its relationship with Ireland and the empire. She considers the role that monarchism played in military culture and examines royal visits to the front, as well as the monarchy's role in home front morale and in interwar war commemoration. Her findings suggest that the rise of republicanism in wartime Britain has been overestimated and that war commemoration was central to the monarchy's revered interwar status up to the abdication crisis.
Author | : Stephen Parker |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783039102525 |
Issued also as the author's thesis (Ph. D.), University of Birmingham, 2003.
Author | : Mark Levene |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1015 |
Release | : 2018-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192509411 |
From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of further ethnic cleansings in Anatolia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Crisis of Genocide seeks to integrate these genocidal events into a single, coherent history. Over two volumes, Mark Levene demonstrates how the relationship between geography, nation, and power came to play a key role in the emergence of genocide in a collapsed or collapsing European imperial zone - the Rimlands - and how the continuing geopolitical contest for control of these Eastern European or near-European regions destabilised relationships between diverse and multifaceted ethnic communities who traditionally had lived side by side. An emergent pattern of toxicity can also be seen in the struggles for regional dominance as pursued by post-imperial states, nation-states, and would-be states. Volume I: Devastation covers the period from 1912 to 1938. It is divided into two parts, the first associated with the prelude to, actuality of, and aftermath of the Great War and imperial collapse, the second the period of provisional 'New Europe' reformulation as well as post-imperial Stalinist, Nazi - and Kemalist - consolidation up to 1938. Levene also explores the crystallisation of truly toxic anti-Jewish hostilities, the implication being that the immediate origins of the Jewish genocides in the Second World War are to be found in the First.
Author | : Michael Snape |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2007-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134643411 |
Drawing on a wealth of new material from military, ecclesiastical and secular civilian archives, this book shows that religion had much greater currency and influence in twentieth-century British society than has previously been realized.