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Intimate Voices From The First World War
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Author : Svetlana Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2005-01-04
Intimate Voices From The First World War written by Svetlana Palmer and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-04 with History categories.
The story of World War I is brought to life through the gripping personal narratives of those at the center of the storm. World War I was waged by young people from twenty-eight countries in an era without the advantages of military "embeds," satellite phones, and streaming media coverage. Intimate Voices from the First World War fills in the gaps in the history of the world's first global confrontation with excerpts from recently uncovered letters and diaries of those on the front lines and their friends at home. In their reflections on the vastness of the enterprise of war, these combatants, victims, and eyewitnesses re-create the scope of the conflict with immediacy and tenderness. Written with the frankness and intimacy of words not intended for public eyes -- full of private passions, prejudices, humor, and vivid insights -- these communiqués speak to us directly from within the war itself and from all sides of the conflict. These marvelous historical narratives not only immerse readers in an ongoing dialogue about the meaning of human conflict but also serve as reminders of the individual perspectives and beliefs that sometimes get overlooked during times of global strife.
Intimate Voices From The First World War
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Author : Svetlana Palmer
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date : 2004-01-06
Intimate Voices From The First World War written by Svetlana Palmer and has been published by William Morrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-06 with History categories.
How do you tell the history of a war in which more than nine million combatants and nearly seven million civilians across the world died by bullet, fire, hunger and disease? How do you describe the experience of a war that ignited two revolutions, brought down four monarchies, scarred a generation and culminated in major political and territorial changes that cast shadows to this day? Departing from traditional histories, Intimate Voices from the First World War tells the story of the First World War entirely through the diaries and letters of its combatants, eyewitnesses and victims. Powerful individual stories are interwoven to form an extraordinary narrative that follows the chronology of the war, in words written on the battlefield and on leave, under occupation and under siege. Soldiers and civilians record with passion, fear and humor their experiences and intimate thoughts, never intended for publication. The book starts with the testimony of a Serbian teenager, one of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassins. Each chapter focuses on one important episode of the war told from opposite sides of the conflict. A German and a British soldier are dug into the parallel lines of trenches on the Somme. An Australian and a Turk describe brutal bayonet charges on the beaches at Gallipoli. A Polish woman endures a gruesome siege and an initially patriotic German schoolgirl, after being exposed to the loss and pain of war, gradually escapes into a world of adolescent love. The diaries and letters featured were uncovered during extensive research across twenty-eight countries for the groundbreaking television series The First World War, based on the work of Professor Hew Strachan, whose introduction starts this book. Gripping, immediate and moving, Intimate Voices from the First World War represents a major addition to First World War literature.
Intimate Voices From The First World War
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Author : Sarah Wallis
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2003
Intimate Voices From The First World War written by Sarah Wallis and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
"One day I was walking with my friend Lazar Djukic, and I remarked that Ferdinand was coming soon [and] that it would be nice to prepare a warm welcome for him. In our language that meant assassination... Lazo simply said, -It can be done if someone wants it.' Up to that point the conversation was a bit of a joke but now my mind was set. All I needed was a gun." --from the prison diary of Vaso Cubrilovic, a member of a group of Serbian assassins who succeeded in killing Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, sparking WWI How do you tell the history of a war in which over nine million combatants and five million civilians from 28 countries died by bullet, fire, hunger, and disease? How to describe the scale of an event that ignited two revolutions, toppled four monarchies, decimated a generation and culminated in political changes that cast shadows to this day? Departing radically from traditional histories, Intimate Voices from the First World War tells the story of WWI on a personal and human scale. Through the private letters and diaries of soldiers, children, teens, wives, lovers, doctors, survivors, and victims --accounts unearthed during research for a worldwide 10-part television series--a compelling narrative takes shape that follows the war from beginning to end. Each chapter illuminates a crucial episode of WWI from multiple viewpoints. A starving Polish woman and a disgruntled Austrian officer tell of a long and brutal siege. Two Colonial soldiers--one Canadian and one African--send candid dispatches home from the Western Front. Two children--one German, one French-- live through the horrors of occupation, both in adolescent angst. The voices of a German school girl, an American nurse, a black South African laborer, and soldiers from every nation rise to form a chorus of compassion, hatred, hope, and grief. The result is a searingly honest and intimate look at "the war to end all wars."
The Beauty And The Sorrow
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Author : Peter Englund
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-11-08
The Beauty And The Sorrow written by Peter Englund and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-08 with History categories.
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.
For King And Country
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Author : Brian MacArthur
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Release Date : 2008
For King And Country written by Brian MacArthur and has been published by Little, Brown Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Soldiers categories.
An intimate history of the First World War through published and personal writings.
Combat Voices From The First World War
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Author : Tom Donovan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Combat Voices From The First World War written by Tom Donovan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Voices From The Front
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Author : Peter Hart
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-01
Voices From The Front written by Peter Hart and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-01 with History categories.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Peter Hart, then a young oral historian at the Imperial War Museum in London, conducted 183 interviews with British World War I veterans. After the death of the last veteran in 2009, these interviews have become a rare and invaluable record of the Great War, as remembered by the men who experienced it. The men spoke to Hart of the familiar horrors of the war-poison gas, lice, muddy trenches, newly minted tanks, and sinking ships-enriching each memory with personal anecdote, shedding light on war's effect on soldiers both in wartime and during the years that followed. Hart now returns to these interviews in Voices from the Front. His new book not only provides a narrative timeline of the events of 1914 to 1918, but restores individuality and humanity to the men who were often treated like expendable resources. Hart uses the transcripts of these conversations as a framework on which to build a unique depiction of Britain's experience of the war-one separated from the boastful exaggerations or, alternatively, the underplaying euphemisms often found in letters mailed home or to fellow soldiers. By including the testimonies of men such as William Holbrook, who was just 15 when he enlisted, as well as Harold Bing, an anti-war demonstrator, Hart breathes new life into the experiences of both young soldiers and those who morally opposed the war. The result is history as both narrative and recollection; war experienced first-hand but looked at now from a great distance. Here is an intimate and humanized account of the first great cataclysm of the twentieth century, one endured by the men whose voices we hear in this book, and whose legacies are with us still.
Landscapes And Voices Of The Great War
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Author : Angela K. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge Studies in Modern History
Release Date : 2017
Landscapes And Voices Of The Great War written by Angela K. Smith and has been published by Routledge Studies in Modern History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Landscapes categories.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Real and Imagined Spaces -- 1 "Funny Men and Charming Girls": Revue and the Theatrical Landscape of 1914-1918 -- 2 "When Words Are Not Enough": The Aural Landscape of Britain's Modern Memory of 1914-18 -- 3 Maisons de Tolérance : The Real and Imagined Sexual Landscapes of the Western Front -- 4 "The Delightful Sense of Personal Contact That Your Letter Aroused": Letters and Intimate Lives in the First World War -- PART II Voices -- 5 "A Certain Poetess": Recuperating Jessie Pope (1868-1941) -- 6 Ventriloquizing Voices in World War I: Scribe, Poetess, Philosopher -- 7 Pacifist Writer, Propagandist Publisher: Rose Macaulay and Hodder & Stoughton -- 8 From Collusion to Condemnation: The Evolving Voice of "Woodbine Willie"--PART III Landscapes -- 9 First World War Nursing Narratives in the Middle East -- 10 Cars in the Desert: Claud H. Williams, S.C. Rolls and the Anglo-Sanusi War -- 11 Murmurs of War: Grace Fallow Norton and "The Red Road"--12 Landscapes of Memory in Centenary Fiction -- Contributors -- Index
Indian Voices Of The Great War
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Author : David Omissi
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Indian Voices Of The Great War written by David Omissi and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Literary Collections categories.
The voices who could tell the Indian story of the First World War have long been silenced, but at last India is getting the chance to hear its own soldiers speaking in this collection of letters sent by them while they served in France. Fighting alongside soldiers whose language, customs and indeed colour were strange to them, these letters bear eloquent witness to the sepoys’ often unsettling encounters with Europe and European culture. By turns poignant, funny and moving, they provide an intimate picture of the world of the Western Front.
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War
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Author : Max Arthur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War written by Max Arthur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Oral history categories.
