Ring of Steel
Title | Ring of Steel PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Watson |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 451 |
Release | 2014-10-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465056873 |
A prize-winning, magisterial history of World War I from the perspective of the defeated Central Powers For the Central Powers, the First World War started with high hopes for an easy victory. But those hopes soon deteriorated as Germany's attack on France failed, Austria-Hungary's armies suffered catastrophic losses, and Britain's ruthless blockade brought both nations to the brink of starvation. The Central powers were trapped in the Allies' ever-tightening Ring of Steel. In this compelling history, Alexander Watson retells the war from the perspective of its losers: not just the leaders in Berlin and Vienna, but the people of Central Europe. The war shattered their societies, destroyed their states, and imparted a poisonous legacy of bitterness and violence. A major reevaluation of the First World War, Ring of Steel is essential for anyone seeking to understand the last century of European history.
The First World War
Title | The First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Howard |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2007-01-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199205590 |
This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War--from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers. Examining how and why the war was fought, as well as the historical controversies that still surround the war, Michael Howard also looks at how peace was ultimately made, and describes the potent legacy of resentment left to Germany.
The Fourteen Points Speech
Title | The Fourteen Points Speech PDF eBook |
Author | Woodrow Wilson |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2017-06-17 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781548159412 |
This Squid Ink Classic includes the full text of the work plus MLA style citations for scholarly secondary sources, peer-reviewed journal articles and critical essays for when your teacher requires extra resources in MLA format for your research paper.
The Harlem Hellfighters
Title | The Harlem Hellfighters PDF eBook |
Author | Max Brooks |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 0307464970 |
From bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regiment—the Harlem Hellfighters In 1919, the 369th infantry regiment marched home triumphantly from World War I. They had spent more time in combat than any other American unit, never losing a foot of ground to the enemy, or a man to capture, and winning countless decorations. Though they returned as heroes, this African American unit faced tremendous discrimination, even from their own government. The Harlem Hellfighters, as the Germans called them, fought courageously on—and off—the battlefield to make Europe, and America, safe for democracy. In THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS, bestselling author Max Brooks and acclaimed illustrator Caanan White bring this history to life. From the enlistment lines in Harlem to the training camp at Spartanburg, South Carolina, to the trenches in France, they tell the heroic story of the 369th in an action-packed and powerful tale of honor and heart.
The Beauty and the Sorrow
Title | The Beauty and the Sorrow PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Englund |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 594 |
Release | 2012-09-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307739287 |
An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund’s collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.
War Planning 1914
Title | War Planning 1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard F. Hamilton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521110963 |
This collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting.
Forbidden Music
Title | Forbidden Music PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Haas |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 505 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0300154313 |
DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div