Reims On Fire

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Reims On Fire

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Author : Thomas W. Gaehtgens
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2018-07-10

Reims On Fire written by Thomas W. Gaehtgens and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-10 with History categories.

As the site of royal coronations, Reims cathedral was a monument to French national history and identity. But after German troops bombed the cathedral during World War I, it took on new meaning. The French reimagined it as a martyr of civilization, as the rupture between the warring states. Despite a history of mutual respect, the bombing of the cathedral caused all social, scientific, artistic, and cultural ties between Germany and France to be severed for decades. The resulting battle of words and images stressed the differences between German Kultur and French civilisation. Artists and intelligentsia caricatured this entrenched cultural dichotomy, influencing portrayals of the two nations in the international press. This book explores the structure’s breadth of meaning in symbolic, art historical, and historical arenas, including competing claims over the origins of Gothic art and architecture as national style and issues of monument preservation and restoration. It highlights how vulnerable art is during war, and how the destruction of nation-al monuments can set the tone for international conflict—once again a timely and pressing issue. Thomas W. Gaehtgens articulates how these nations began to mend their relationship in the decades after World War II, starting with the courageous vision of Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, and how the cathedral of Reims was eventually transformed into a site of reconciliation and European unification.

The Bombardment Of Reims

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Author : Barr Ferree
language : en
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2021-03-16

The Bombardment Of Reims written by Barr Ferree and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Fiction categories.

"The Bombardment of Reims" by Barr Ferree. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Cathedral Of Reims

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Author : Maurice Landrieux
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920

The Cathedral Of Reims written by Maurice Landrieux and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with Cultural property, Protection of categories.

France Under Fire

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Author : Nicole Dombrowski Risser
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-12

France Under Fire written by Nicole Dombrowski Risser 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 2012-07-12 with History categories.

A social, military and political history of the French refugee crisis tracing the impact of government responses upon civilian lives.

German Philosophy And The First World War

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Author : Nicolas de Warren
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-20

German Philosophy And The First World War written by Nicolas de Warren 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 2023-04-20 with Philosophy categories.

How did the First World War, the so-called 'Great War' - widely seen on all sides as 'the war to end all wars' - impact the development of German philosophy? Combining history and biography with astute philosophical and textual analysis, Nicolas de Warren addresses here the intellectual trajectories of ten significant wartime philosophers: Ernst Bloch, Martin Buber, Ernst Cassirer, Hermann Cohen, György Lukács, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Franz Rosenzweig, Max Scheler and Georg Simmel. In exploring their individual works written during and after the War, the author reveals how philosophical concepts and new forms of thinking were forged in response to this unprecedented catastrophe. In reassessing standardized narratives of German thought, the book deepens and enhances our understanding of the intimate and complex relationship between philosophy and violence by demonstrating how the 1914-18 conflict was a crucible for ways of thinking that still define us today.

The Battle Of France

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Author : Peter Cornwell
language : en
Publisher: After the Battle
Release Date : 2008-02-28

The Battle Of France written by Peter Cornwell and has been published by After the Battle this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-28 with History categories.

Peter Cornwell tells the story of the greatest air battle of the Second World War when six nations were locked in combat over north-western Europe for a traumatic six weeks in 1940. He describes the day-to-day events as the battle unfolds, and details the losses suffered by all six nations involved: Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and, rather belatedly, Italy. As far as RAF fighter squadrons in France were concerned, it was an all-Hurricane show, yet it was the Blenheim and Battle crews who suffered the brunt of the casualties. Every aircraft lost or damaged through enemy action while operating in France is listed together with the fate of the crews. The RAF lost more than a thousand aircraft of all types over the Western Front during the six-week battle, the French Air Force 1,400, but Luftwaffe losses were even higher at over 1,800 aircraft.

Military Review

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941

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 1941 with Military art and science categories.

Review Of Current Military Literature

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940

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Saving The Light At Chartres

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Author : Victor A. Pollak
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-03-16

Saving The Light At Chartres written by Victor A. Pollak and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-16 with History categories.

Built around 1200 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site that draws more than a million visitors and pilgrims each year, Chartres Cathedral is one of the jewels of Western Civilization. How Chartres Cathedral and its priceless stained glass (today the largest such collection in one location) survived World War II’s widespread destruction of cultural monuments is one of the great stories of recent history. Saving the Light at Chartres begins half a decade before World War II, when a young French architect developed a plan to save the cathedral’s precious stained glass. As war engulfed Europe in the fall of 1939, master glass artisans dismantled the hundreds of windows, and soldiers, tradesmen, and laborers with local volunteers crated thousands of glass panels, stowed them in the crypt, and months later—just before German invaders reached Chartres—hauled them across the country to an underground quarry. This effort to save the stained glass is but a prologue. By August 1944, the U.S. Army had broken out of Normandy and was racing across France toward Paris and the Seine. Chartres became a key battleground. Allied bombing blew out the cathedral’s temporary window coverings, and when the Americans—assisted by French Resistance fighters—entered the city in the face of unexpectedly heavy defiance and snipers in the cathedral, many soldiers believed German artillery spotters were occupying the cathedral’s spires. When Colonel Welborn Griffith Jr.—a senior operations officer of Twentieth Corps in Patton’s Third Army—arrived, some were pressing to countermand the army’s standing order to avoid the cathedral and threatened to destroy it to neutralize the German spotters. Griffith was skeptical. He inspected the cathedral himself, climbed its towers, but found no Germans, so he rang the bell, waved an American flag, and ordered that the cathedral be spared, saving it from destruction. Griffith would be killed later that day. Victor Pollak tells both stories—the rescue of the windows and Colonel Griffith’s fateful role—in a compelling narrative. Saving the Light at Chartres honors the government and local teams who saved the windows, the Resistance that performed a vital role in the liberation of Chartres, Welborn Griffith, and the enduring treasure that is Chartres Cathedral.

German Barbarism A Neutral S Indictment

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Author : Léon Maccas
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16

German Barbarism A Neutral S Indictment written by Léon Maccas and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Fiction categories.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "German Barbarism: A Neutral's Indictment" by Léon Maccas. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.