The Joseph M Bruccoli Great War Collection At The University Of South Carolina
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The Joseph M Bruccoli Great War Collection At The University Of South Carolina
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Author : Elizabeth A. Sudduth
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2005
The Joseph M Bruccoli Great War Collection At The University Of South Carolina written by Elizabeth A. Sudduth and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalogue provides a reference tool for the study of one of the great watershed moments in history on both sides of the Atlantic serving historians, researchers, and collectors.
Class 1902
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Author : Ernst Glaeser
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2008
Class 1902 written by Ernst Glaeser and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
This is an autobiographical novel of youth spent on the German home front during World War I. First published in Germany in 1928 as Jahrgang 1902, Glaeser's autobiographical novel centers on the experiences of the narrator, E., and his friends who come of age during the Great War but never know combat because the war ends before they can be drafted. Through their perspectives Glaeser provides glimpses into traumatic times on the German home front. Over the four years covered by the novel, E. witnesses the buildup and deployment of troops, the return of the wounded, deaths, hunger, and air raids. His own actions follow a quest for sexual experience and, moreover, the understanding of life he believes will come from such experience. As E. simultaneously spurns the onset of adulthood and yearns for the physical pleasures that might accompany such a transition, his life repeatedly intersects with the war, moving him in and out of dangers and eventually taking his girlfriend Anna from him before they can consummate their relationship. Through the vibrantly detailed episodes that make up the work, Glaeser gives a street-level vantage point on the sufferings of the German civilian population and shows the high cost of war even for those with no direct involvement in its outcome. Deemed ""a damned good book"" by Ernest Hemingway, Glaeser's work warrants reading today for its value as a historical document and as a novel of antiwar sentiments from a German perspective. In the new introduction to this edition, Kruse details the reception of the work against the historical backdrop of German novels of the era and the international rise of the antiwar genre in which the work participates.
This Man S Army
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Author : John Allan Wyeth
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2008
This Man S Army written by John Allan Wyeth and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
This is an autobiographical account of Wyeth's service in France and Belgium from 1917-1919, detailing his duties as interpreter, messenger, and occasionally sentry while traveling town by town toward the German Hindenburg line.
Flesh In Armour
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Author : Leonard Mann
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2008
Flesh In Armour written by Leonard Mann and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
Drawn in part from the authors combat experience in France during WW I, the novel is an exploration of the lives of soldiers in the Australian Imperial Force from the Ypres campaign in 1917 until just before the Armistice. The plot follows three soldiers in the same battalionCharl Bentley, a naive and handsome raw recruit eager for combat; Frank Jeffreys, a schoolteacher whose intellect and anxiety have led to disillusionment; and Jim Blount, a resourceful and courageous warrior-hero who remains undaunted by battle despite being wounded. The novel bears an unmistakable Australian point of view, particularly in its wry sense of humor in spite of the dark subject matter and in its vehement disdain for British commanders who viewed the AIF volunteers as disposable.
The Somme Including Also The Coward
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Author : Arthur Donald Gristwood
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2006
The Somme Including Also The Coward written by Arthur Donald Gristwood and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
In these stories, the heroics of war and noble self-sacrifice are completely absent; replaced by the gritty realism of life in WWI for the ordinary soldier, and the unflinching portrayal of the horrors of war. Written under the guidance of the master storyteller H. G. Wells, they are classics of the genre. 'The Somme' revolves around a futile attack in 1916 during the Somme campaign. Everitt, who is wounded and moved back through a series of dressing stations to the General Hospital at Rouen. Both in and out of the line he behaves selfishly and unheroically, but in a manner with which it is hard for the reader not to identify. Based on A D Gristwood's own wartime experiences, critics have said that few other accounts of the war give such an accurate picture of trench life. 'The Coward' concerns a man who shoots himself in the hand to escape the war, during the March 1918 retreat - an offense punishable by death.
Civilization 1914 1917
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Author : Georges Duhamel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009
Civilization 1914 1917 written by Georges Duhamel and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This title includes a French field surgeon's autobiographical tales of the Western Front. ""Civilization, 1914-1917"" is a largely autobiographical narrative of the Great War written by a remarkable observer - a French physician, poet, and novelist who treated the wounded and performed some two thousand operations in mobile hospital units during the war. First published in 1918 and translated into English the following year, the book was awarded the Prix Goncourt and a special award of the Academie Francaise. Out of print for ninety years, Georges Duhamel's account is available once more in this Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series edition featuring a new introduction by Catharine Savage Brosman, which offers a biographical sketch of Duhamel and places his work within the context of French narratives of World War I. Duhamel's book comprises sixteen vignettes in which character rather than plot remains the constant focus. Each tale is presented in the first person but with varying narrators. The settings are often field medical units just miles away from the bombardments. Here the stench of blood, plight of the wounded, and efforts of well-intentioned doctors bring to the fore the realities of war as Duhamel knew them to be. Pathos, anger, and frustration are more plentiful than any sense of glory, duty, or honor in these circumstances. In lieu of the political and nationalistic considerations of war that dominate the writings of some of his contemporaries, Duhamel's narratives offer instead the historical and literary merits of his keen attention to details - particularly concerning combat medicine - and his rich development of the varied tones, characters, and locations of his sketches. Throughout the book Duhamel pits those characters and efforts meant to preserve and mend humanity against an overarching machine age and its armored acolytes intent on human destruction. The resulting collection works to bear authoritative witness to the war on the Western Front and to extract from the author's experiences some measure of poetic truth about the nature of civilization in our modern age.
Retreat A Story Of 1918
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Author : Charles Richard Benstead
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2008
Retreat A Story Of 1918 written by Charles Richard Benstead and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
Retreat is based on the authors combat experiences as a British Fifth Army artillery officer during the massive German advance in March 1918. The book centers on the British retreat as experienced by an egotistical chaplain ill suited to combat. The soldiers have little interest in religion and the pacifist priest is useless in their environment. Juxtaposed against the chaplain is a battle-fatigued officer who maintains his courage in the face of insurmountable odds through an empowering sense of national duty. In this theater of battle, the author describes the cruel injustices of the war as he knew it and the inadequacies of religion to address the harsh circumstances on the front.
Captain Conan
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Author : Roger Vercel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2008
Captain Conan written by Roger Vercel and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
This is a brutal tale of the exploits of French commandos on the Great War's Bulgarian front. First published in 1934, Vercel's novel was awarded the Prix Goncourt for its unflinching assessment of the toll fierce combat had taken on the youth of France. Largely autobiographical and told from the perspective of a young lieutenant, the book follows the exploits of a French commando unit attacking Bulgarian outposts along the Romanian border. The unit is led by Captain Conan, a haberdasher's son who finds his calling as a fearless killer ready to crawl through barbed wire and slit the throats of his enemies on midnight raids. Conan is loyal only to his men, as all notions of patriotism are lost in place of the fraternity and brutality needed for survival and success in this close combat. Following the Armistice, Conan's unit is redeployed to Bucharest to maintain the peace, but they do more harm than good. The soldiers have become murderers, thieves, and rapists, and Conan himself is charged with injuring his lover's husband. But the victim withdraws the charges, and Conan leaves Bucharest when the French are called to combat Lenin and Trotsky's guerrilla forces along the Ukrainian border. Conan and his men, now facing their former Russian allies, have lost all ideals of honorable battle and are reduced to serving as mindless weapons to be moved about on the field. Conan becomes the hero of his final fight, but Vercel shows us that there is no happy homecoming for a trained killer - only isolation, loneliness, and nostalgia for battles Conan never fully understood. Morgan's introduction to this new edition maps the public reception of Vercel's novel and places the book in the larger context of World War I combat literature.
Plumes
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Author : Laurence Stallings
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2006
Plumes written by Laurence Stallings and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
Richard Plume is a U.S. Marine whose combat injuries ultimately cost him a leg and much faith in his government and society. Carefully structured to emphasize the immediacy of problems faced by its players, the novel relegates combat scenes to flashbacks and centers instead on the struggles Richard faces as he tries to carve out a humble but honest existence in postwar Washington, D.C., for his wife, Esme, and son, Dickie.
Zero Hour
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Author : Georg Grabenhorst
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2006
Zero Hour written by Georg Grabenhorst and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
An autobiographical novel of World War I experiences in the German ranks, Zero Hour equates duty with camaraderie and finds a balance between bitterness and hawkishness. The war is experienced here through the keen eyes of Hans Volkenborn, a well-bred officer-candidate whose youthful enthusiasm turns to angst and disillusion. The sole comfort of his experience is fellowship with his comrades, but even that abates over time.