A Century After The Guns Fell Silent
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A Century After The Guns Fell Silent
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
A Century After The Guns Fell Silent written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
To commemorate the Centenary of the Armistice, this book profiles the 145 people listed on Pakenham's various WWI memorials. The book also documents Pakenham's wider contribution to the Great War and the history of its WWI memorials.
A Century After The Guns Fell Silent
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Author : Patrick Ferry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-11-11
A Century After The Guns Fell Silent written by Patrick Ferry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-11 with categories.
When The Guns Fell Silent
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Author : Edna Iturralde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-02-01
When The Guns Fell Silent written by Edna Iturralde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Twelve short stories that portray the experiences of children as they face situations of conflict in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Colombia, Liberia, the Basque Countries (Spain), Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine, Chechnya (Russia), Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, and Sri Lanka"--edited from P. [4] of cover.
After The Guns Fell Silent
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Author : Adolph A. Hoehling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
After The Guns Fell Silent written by Adolph A. Hoehling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with United States categories.
Stumbling Towards Victory
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Author : M. Lawrence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-06-04
Stumbling Towards Victory written by M. Lawrence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-04 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
"The First World War tore apart the early twentieth century. Both terrible and terrifying, it banished misplaced optimism that war on such an unconscionable scale could never occur. A century after the guns fell silent on the Western Front, its scars continue to shape our modern idea of remembrance. As the national museum of arms and armour, the Royal Armouries brings a unique perspective to studies of the Great War. Stumbling Towards Victory contains photographs - many previously unpublished - from the museum archives, all of which were taken in the last twelve months of the war. Amidst the haunting emptiness of broken ground and shattered trees, these images convey the horror, and hope, of that final cataclysmic year. Published to coincide with the First World War centenary commemorations, Stumbling Towards Victory illustrates the final months of a global conflagration that was nothing less than an armageddon for the ages"--Back cover
Christmas Truce By The Men Who Took Part
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Author : Mike Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-04
Christmas Truce By The Men Who Took Part written by Mike Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-04 with History categories.
The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a moment of enduring fascination more than a century after the day the First World War guns fell silent. Now for the first time, hundreds of first person accounts of this most extraordinary period of history have been gathered together telling the story in their own words of the soldiers who met in peace in No Man's Land. The stories of men from English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh regiments who played and joked, sang and danced, swapped gifts and shared food and drink with the enemy before returning to war on the Western Front. Christmas Truce By The Men Who Took Part is the largest collection ever drawn together of letters sent home by the officers and soldiers who laid down their guns and shook hands with their foes. The eye opening accounts of the unofficial armistice between German and British forces capture the trepidation and exhilaration, the curiosity, anger, joy and despair of that first Christmas on the unforgiving battlegrounds of the Great War.
When The Guns Fall Silent
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Author : James Riordan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press - Children
Release Date : 2013-11-07
When The Guns Fall Silent written by James Riordan and has been published by Oxford University Press - Children this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Jack, standing among the war graves, sees a face he recognizes. Suddenly, it's 1914 again and he's a young lad back in the trenches. Visions of killing and misery come to him with horrible clarity. But then Jack remembers too the incredible moment when the guns fell silent for a short time, and fighting gave way to football on the frozen ground of No-Man's-Land. This amazing story, based on true facts from the First World War, will transport readers back to the war fields of France and show that even in times of conflict and extreme sadness, there is always hope.
The Vanquished
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Author : Robert Gerwarth
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-08-25
The Vanquished written by Robert Gerwarth and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with History categories.
'This war is not the end but the beginning of violence. It is the forge in which the world will be hammered into new borders and new communities. New molds want to be filled with blood, and power will be wielded with a hard fist.' Ernst Jünger (1918) For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always been a solemn date - the end of fighting which had destroyed a generation, and also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of their principal enemies: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. But for much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no meaning, as a continuing, nightmarish series of conflicts engulfed country after country. In this highly original, gripping book Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western front which proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were wrecked by revolution, pogroms, mass expulsions and further major military clashes. If the War itself had in most places been a struggle purely between state-backed soldiers, these new conflicts were mainly about civilians and paramilitaries, and millions of people died across central, eastern, and south-eastern Europe before the USSR and a series of rickety and exhausted small new states came into being. Everywhere there were vengeful people, their lives racked by a murderous sense of injustice, and looking for the opportunity to take retribution against enemies real and imaginary. Only a decade later, the rise of the Third Reich and other totalitarian states provided them with the opportunity they had been looking for.
Peace At Last
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Author : Guy Cuthbertson
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-06
Peace At Last written by Guy Cuthbertson and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with History categories.
A vivid, intimate hour-by-hour account of Armistice Day 1918, including photographs: “A pleasure to read . . . full of fascinating tidbits.” —The Wall Street Journal This is the first book to focus on the day the armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany, ending World War I. In this rich portrait of Armistice Day, which ranges from midnight to midnight, Guy Cuthbertson brings together news reports, photos, literature, memoirs, and letters to show how the people on the street, as well as soldiers and prominent figures like D. H. Lawrence and Lloyd George, experienced a strange, singular day of great joy, relief, and optimism—and examines how Britain and the wider world reacted to the news of peace. “[A] brilliant portrayal of Britain on the day that peace broke out; when people could believe there was an end to the war to end all wars. He weaves a wonderful tapestry of the mood and events across the country, drawing on a wide range of local and regional newspapers . . . accessible history at its best . . . outstanding.” —The Evening Standard
Eleventh Month Eleventh Day Eleventh Hour
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Author : Joseph E. Persico
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Eleventh Month Eleventh Day Eleventh Hour written by Joseph E. Persico and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with History categories.
November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered–more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Why? Allied commanders wanted to punish the enemy to the very last moment and career officers saw a fast-fading chance for glory and promotion. Joseph E. Persico puts the reader in the trenches with the forgotten and the famous–among the latter, Corporal Adolf Hitler, Captain Harry Truman, and Colonels Douglas MacArthur and George Patton. Mainly, he follows ordinary soldiers’ lives, illuminating their fate as the end approaches. Persico sets the last day of the war in historic context with a gripping reprise of all that led up to it, from the 1914 assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, which ignited the war, to the raw racism black doughboys endured except when ordered to advance and die in the war’s last hour. Persico recounts the war’s bloody climax in a cinematic style that evokes All Quiet on the Western Front, Grand Illusion, and Paths of Glory. The pointless fighting on the last day of the war is the perfect metaphor for the four years that preceded it, years of senseless slaughter for hollow purposes. This book is sure to become the definitive history of the end of a conflict Winston Churchill called “the hardest, cruelest, and least-rewarded of all the wars that have been fought.”