Literature and the Great War 1914-1918
Title | Literature and the Great War 1914-1918 PDF eBook |
Author | Randall Stevenson |
Publisher | Oxford Textual Perspectives |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2013-05-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199596441 |
Literature and the Great War offers a fresh, challenging interpretation of the literature of the period, reappraising the settled assumptions through which war writing has come to be read in recent years.
The Great War
Title | The Great War PDF eBook |
Author | Ian F. W. Beckett |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 854 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317866150 |
The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunderstanding and differing national war aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences for both soldiers and civilians, for science and technology, for national politics and for pan-European revolution. The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers, changed the balance of power and influenced the arts, national memory and political thought. The reach of this acount is global, showing how a conflict among European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embraced Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States.
Poems of the Great War
Title | Poems of the Great War PDF eBook |
Author | Luigi Pirandello |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 127 |
Release | 1998-10-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0141181036 |
Published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of World War I poetry. The sequence of poems is random and drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-known and less familiar poetry.
A World Undone
Title | A World Undone PDF eBook |
Author | G. J. Meyer |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 818 |
Release | 2007-05-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0553382403 |
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
A History of the Great War, 1914–1918
Title | A History of the Great War, 1914–1918 PDF eBook |
Author | C.R.M.F. Cruttwell |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Pages | 688 |
Release | 2019-09-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0897336607 |
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.
The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present
Title | The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph Cornelissen |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 2022-11-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1800737270 |
From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.
The Great War
Title | The Great War PDF eBook |
Author | Cyril Falls |
Publisher | |
Pages | 447 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
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