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Enduring The Great War
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Author : Alexander Watson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-11-12
Enduring The Great War written by Alexander Watson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-12 with History categories.
This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay natural human resilience. Drawing widely on contemporary letters and diaries of British and German soldiers, psychiatric reports and official documentation, and interpreting these sources with modern psychological research, this unique account provides fresh insights into the soldiers' fears, motivations and coping mechanisms. It explains why the British outlasted their opponents by examining and comparing the motives for fighting, the effectiveness with which armies and societies supported men and the combatants' morale throughout the conflict on both sides. Finally it challenges the consensus on the war's end, arguing that not a 'covert strike' but rather an 'ordered surrender' led by junior officers brought about Germany's defeat in 1918.
Enduring The Great War Electronicresource
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Author : Alexander Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Enduring The Great War Electronicresource written by Alexander Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Rediscovering The Great War
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Author : Uroš Košir
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-02-21
Rediscovering The Great War written by Uroš Košir and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-21 with History categories.
The Great War was a turning point of the twentieth century, giving birth to a new, modern, and industrial approach to warfare that changed the world forever. The remembrance, awareness, and knowledge of the conflict and, most importantly, of those who participated and were affected by it, altered from country to country, and in some cases has been almost entirely forgotten. New research strategies have emerged to help broaden our understanding of the First World War. Multidisciplinary approaches have been applied to material culture and conflict landscapes, from archive sources analysis and aerial photography to remote sensing, GIS and field research. Working within the context of a material and archival understanding of war, this book combines papers from different study fields that present interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches towards researching the First World War and its legacies, with particular concentration on the central and eastern European theatres of war.
The Great War And Modern Memory
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Author : Paul Fussell
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2013-08-08
The Great War And Modern Memory written by Paul Fussell and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-08 with History categories.
A new edition of Paul Fussell's literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, now a classic text of literary and cultural criticism.
Fighting The Great War
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Author : Michael S. NEIBERG
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Fighting The Great War written by Michael S. NEIBERG and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
Michael Neiberg offers a concise history based on the latest research and insights into the soldiers, commanders, battles, and legacies of the Great War.
The Great War In History
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Author : Jay Winter
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-03
The Great War In History written by Jay Winter and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-03 with History categories.
Previous edition of this translation: 2005.
The Enduring Civil War
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Author : Gary W. Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2022-02-02
The Enduring Civil War written by Gary W. Gallagher and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-02 with History categories.
In the seventy-three succinct essays gathered in The Enduring Civil War, celebrated historian Gary W. Gallagher highlights the complexity and richness of the war, from its origins to its memory, as topics for study, contemplation, and dispute. He places contemporary understanding of the Civil War, both academic and general, in conversation with testimony from those in the Union and the Confederacy who experienced and described it, investigating how mid-nineteenth-century perceptions align with, or deviate from, current ideas regarding the origins, conduct, and aftermath of the war. The tension between history and memory forms a theme throughout the essays, underscoring how later perceptions about the war often took precedence over historical reality in the minds of many Americans. The array of topics Gallagher addresses is striking. He examines notable books and authors, both Union and Confederate, military and civilian, famous and lesser known. He discusses historians who, though their names have receded with time, produced works that remain pertinent in terms of analysis or information. He comments on conventional interpretations of events and personalities, challenging, among other things, commonly held notions about Gettysburg and Vicksburg as decisive turning points, Ulysses S. Grant as a general who profligately wasted Union manpower, the Gettysburg Address as a watershed that turned the war from a fight for Union into one for Union and emancipation, and Robert E. Lee as an old-fashioned general ill-suited to waging a modern mid-nineteenth-century war. Gallagher interrogates recent scholarly trends on the evolving nature of Civil War studies, addressing crucial questions about chronology, history, memory, and the new revisionist literature. The format of this provocative and timely collection lends itself to sampling, and readers might start in any of the subject groupings and go where their interests take them.
Into The Silence
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Author : Wade Davis
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-10-18
Into The Silence written by Wade Davis and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford scholar with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. Drawing on more than a decade of prodigious research, bestselling author and explorer Wade Davis vividly re-creates the heroic efforts of Mallory and his fellow climbers, setting their significant achievements in sweeping historical context: from Britain’s nineteen-century imperial ambitions to the war that shaped Mallory’s generation. Theirs was a country broken, and the Everest expeditions emerged as a powerful symbol of national redemption and hope. In Davis’s rich exploration, he creates a timeless portrait of these remarkable men and their extraordinary times.
The Longest War
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Author : Peter L. Bergen
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-06-28
The Longest War written by Peter L. Bergen and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-28 with History categories.
At a critical moment in world history The Longest War provides the definitive account of the ongoing battle against terror. --Book Jacket.
The Outbreak Of The First World War
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Author : Jack S. Levy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-03
The Outbreak Of The First World War written by Jack S. Levy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-03 with History categories.
This volume brings together leading historians and international relations scholars to debate the causes of the First World War.