The Unquiet Western Front
Author | : Brian Bond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Brian Bond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian Bond |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2002-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139434098 |
Britain's outstanding military achievement in the First World War has been eclipsed by literary myths. Why has the Army's role on the Western Front been so seriously misrepresented? This 2002 book shows how myths have become deeply rooted, particularly in the inter-war period, in the 1960s, and in the 1990s. The outstanding 'anti-war' influences have been 'war poets', subalterns' trench memoirs, the book and film of All Quiet on the Western Front, and the play Journey's End. For a new generation in the 1960s the play and film of Oh What a Lovely War had a dramatic effect, while more recently Blackadder has been dominant. Until more recently, historians had either reinforced the myths, or had failed to counter them. This book follows the intense controversy from 1918 to the present, and concludes that historians are at last permitting the First World War to be placed in proper perspective.
Author | : Brian Bond |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2008-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847250041 |
History.
Author | : Stuart Chase |
Publisher | : New York : Harcourt, Brace |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Neutrality |
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Author | : Erich Maria Remarque |
Publisher | : Crw Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : War stories |
ISBN | : 9781907360671 |
This First World War classic novel is written in the first person by a young German soldier, Paul Bauer. Only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society in general, to enlist and fight at the front, he enters the army with six school friends, each filled with optimistic and patriotic thoughts. Within a few months they are all old men, in mind if not completely in body. They witness such horrors and endure such severe hardship and suffering, that they are unable to even speak about it to anyone but each other. The 1930 film adaptation won two Academy Award.
Author | : Erich Maria Remarque |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 1958 |
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Author | : Richard Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1979 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maggie Andrews |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-06-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000703029 |
This lively collection of essays showcases recent research into the impact of the conflict on British women during the First World War and since. Looking outside of the familiar representations of wartime women as nurses, munitionettes, and land girls, it introduces the reader to lesser-known aspects of women’s war experience, including female composers’ musical responses to the war, changes in the culture of women’s mourning dress, and the complex relationships between war, motherhood, and politics. Written during the war’s centenary, the chapters also consider the gendered nature of war memory in Britain, exploring the emotional legacies of the conflict today, and the place of women’s wartime stories on the contemporary stage. The collection brings together work by emerging and established scholars contributing to the shared project of rewriting British women’s history of the First World War. It is an essential text for anyone researching or studying this history. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.
Author | : Charles A. O'Connor |
Publisher | : New Acdemia+ORM |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2014-04-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1955835268 |
A compelling analysis of how World War I spurred the rise of atheism and the subsequent effect on Western theology, philosophy, literature, and art. The catastrophic Great War left humanity in a world no longer trustworthy and reassuring but seemingly meaningless and indifferent. Instead of redressing humanity’s cosmic alienation, postwar Western culture abandoned its concern for cosmic meaning, lost its confidence in human reason, and enabled the scientific worldview of neo-Darwinian materialism to emerge and eventually dominate the Western mind. According to the proponents of that worldview, science is the only source of genuine truth, nature is the product of a blind evolutionary process, and reality at bottom is just physics and chemistry. Thus, God is dead and continued belief in a transcendently purposeful universe is intellectually indefensible and either disingenuous or delusional. By turning away from the eternal questions about the nature of reality, Western culture effectively ceded unwarranted credibility and prominence to neo-Darwinian materialism, including its recently strident New Atheism. “O’Connor revisits the 20th century’s journey from Nietzsche’s declaration of the ‘death of God’ to the rise of materialism as the dominant worldview of western intelligentsia. We live in a world that has largely expelled both mind and meaning from the citadels of serious intellectual pursuit, and O’Connor’s book is a fascinating and scholarly expedition into the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of that troubling development.” —Carter Phipps, author of Evolutionaries “I found this topic to be top-rate. The book is well researched and conceived, nicely narrated and analyzed, and an original body of inquiry into a challenging, fascinating intellectual tradition.” —Ronald M. Johnson, Professor Emeritus of American History, Georgetown University