Optimism At Armageddon
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Optimism At Armageddon
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Author : Mark Meigs
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1997-03-05
Optimism At Armageddon written by Mark Meigs and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-05 with History categories.
An analytical account of the experiences of American soldiers in World War 1 drawing on a wide range of sources in France and the United States. Since American forces did not appear on the Western Front in substantial numbers until the summer of 1918, their experiences of the war were short and less devastating than those of their Allied comrades. Thus surviving American troops emerged from the experience in a rather more upbeat mood about the war than the Allies. This is a fascinating and ground-breaking work as few other military historians have attempted to deal with the US army of 1918 in depth.
With Our Backs To The Wall
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Author : David Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2011-05-26
With Our Backs To The Wall written by David Stevenson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with History categories.
FINANCIAL TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR and DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for the 2012 DUKE OF WESTMINSTER MEDAL FOR MILITARY LITERATURE At the end of 1917 Britain and France faced a strategic nightmare. Their great offensives against Germany had been calamitous, leaving hundreds of thousands of young men dead and wounded for negligible territorial gains. Despite America's entry into the war the US army remained tiny, the Italian army had been routed, and Russia had dropped out of the conflict. The Central Powers now dominated Central and Eastern Europe, and Germany could move over forty divisions to the Western Front. Yet only one year later, on 11 November 1918, the fighting ended in a decisive Allied victory. Stevenson's rich and compelling book retells the story of 1918, and with penetrating original research goes to the very roots of this instrumental turning point in modern history.
Rest In Peace
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Author : Gary Laderman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2005-02
Rest In Peace written by Gary Laderman and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02 with Religion categories.
Gary Laderman traces the origins of American funeral rituals, & looks at the increasing subordination of religious figures to the funeral director in the late 20th century, demonstrating that the modern director is very far from Mitford's manipulator of 'The American Way of Death'.
Fever Of War
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Author : Carol R Byerly
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2005-04-05
Fever Of War written by Carol R Byerly and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-05 with History categories.
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers’ confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory.
The Anthem Companion To Zygmunt Bauman
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Author : Michael Hviid Jacobsen
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2023-10-03
The Anthem Companion To Zygmunt Bauman written by Michael Hviid Jacobsen and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-03 with Social Science categories.
This edited volume will illustrate the continuing interest in Bauman’s work through a number of chapters each dealing with the important aspects of his work and shedding light on some new angles and perspectives on his life and work. It seeks to position Bauman within the field of sociology and to provide some examples of his lasting contribution to and relevance for the discipline. Bauman’s ideas remain an important source of inspiration for many scholars and researchers working within a variety of different fields and sub-fields, appealing equally to empirical work and theoretical elaboration. This book contains ten chapters, and all chapters are devoted to the presentation and discussion of themes and ideas that were characteristic of Bauman’s way of doing and writing. The purpose of this volume – as with the other volumes published in the Anthem Press ‘Companion to Sociology’ series – is to provide a comprehensive overview of Zygmunt Bauman’s continued importance within the field of sociology and related social science disciplines.
Military Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Military Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Military art and science categories.
Quarterly Review Of Military Literature
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Quarterly Review Of Military Literature written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Military art and science categories.
Professional Journal Of The United States Army
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Professional Journal Of The United States Army written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Military art and science categories.
Bodies Of War
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Author : Lisa M. Budreau
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2011-11
Bodies Of War written by Lisa M. Budreau and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11 with History categories.
World War I marked the first war in which the United States government and military took full responsibility for the identification, burial, and memorialization of those killed in battle, and as a result, the process of burying and remembering the dead became intensely political. The government and military attempted to create a patriotic consensus on the historical memory of World War I in which war dead were not only honored but used as a symbol to legitimize America's participation in a war not fully supported by all citizens. In this book, the author unpacks the politics and processes of the competing interest groups involved in the three core components of commemoration: repatriation, remembrance, and return. This book emphasizes the inherent tensions in the politics of memorialization and explores how those interests often conflicted with the needs of veterans and relatives.
Love And Death In The Great War
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Author : Andrew J. Huebner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-01
Love And Death In The Great War written by Andrew J. Huebner 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 2018-02-01 with History categories.
Americans today harbor no strong or consistent collective memory of the First World War. Ask why the country fought or what they accomplished, and "democracy" is the most likely if vague response. The circulation of confusing or lofty rationales for intervention began as soon as President Woodrow Wilson secured a war declaration in April 1917. Yet amid those shifting justifications, Love and Death in the Great War argues, was a more durable and resonant one: Americans would fight for home and family. Officials in the military and government, grasping this crucial reality, invested the war with personal meaning, as did popular culture. "Make your mother proud of you/And the Old Red White and Blue" went George Cohan's famous tune "Over There." Federal officials and their allies in public culture, in short, told the war story as a love story. Intervention came at a moment when arbiters of traditional home and family were regarded as under pressure from all sides: industrial work, women's employment, immigration, urban vice, woman suffrage, and the imagined threat of black sexual aggression. Alleged German crimes in France and Belgium seemed to further imperil women and children. War promised to restore convention, stabilize gender roles, and sharpen male character. Love and Death in the Great War tracks such ideas of redemptive war across public and private spaces, policy and implementation, home and front, popular culture and personal correspondence. In beautifully rendered prose, Andrew J. Huebner merges untold stories of ordinary men and women with a history of wartime culture. Studying the radiating impact of war alongside the management of public opinion, he recovers the conflict's emotional dimensions--its everyday rhythms, heartbreaking losses, soaring possibilities, and broken promises.