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The Myth Of The Great War
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Author : John Mosier
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-03-29
The Myth Of The Great War written by John Mosier and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-29 with History categories.
“Students of military history love to argue, and John Mosier gives them much to argue about. From armaments and tactics to strategy and politics, he challenges conventional wisdom and forces a rethinking of the war that inaugurated the modern era.” — H.W. Brands, author of The First American and TR: The Last Romantic “Ther is much in this book I really admire, not least its brilliant recasting of the traditional military narrative.” — Niall Ferguson, author of The Pity of War “A compelling and novel reassessment of World War I military history.”— — Kirkus Reviews “Packed with evidence, much of it ingeniously obtained and argued.” — Washington Post
The Great War
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Author : Dan Todman
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-03-04
The Great War written by Dan Todman and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-04 with History categories.
The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futility of war. Generals, safe in their headquarters behind the lines, sent millions of men to their deaths to gain a few hundred yards of ground. Writers, notably Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, provided unforgettable images of the idiocy and tragedy of the war. Yet this vision of the war is at best a partial one, the war only achieving its status as the worst of wars in the last thirty years. At the time, the war aroused emotions of pride and patriotism. Not everyone involved remembered the war only for its miseries. The generals were often highly professional and indeed won the war in 1918. In this original and challenging book, Dan Todman shows views of the war have changed over the last ninety years and how a distorted image of it emerged and became dominant.
The Great War
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Author : D. E. Marshall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Great War written by D. E. Marshall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
Myth And The Greatest Generation
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Author : Kenneth Rose
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13
Myth And The Greatest Generation written by Kenneth Rose and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with History categories.
Myth and the Greatest Generation calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw. Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and other cultural artefacts Ken Rose shows the war was much more disruptive to the lives of Americans in the military and on the home front during World War II than is generally acknowledged. Issues of racial, labor unrest, juvenile delinquency, and marital infidelity were rampant, and the black market flourished. This book delves into both personal and national issues, calling into questions the dominant view of World War II as ‘The Good War’.
The Pity Of War
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Author : Niall Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-10-25
The Pity Of War written by Niall Ferguson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-25 with History categories.
The controversial revisionist history of World War I that made Niall Ferguson's name The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. More than any other event, it made the twentieth century. In this boldly conceived book and provocative, aimed to appeal not only to students but also to the general reader, Niall Ferguson explodes many of the myths surrounding the war. Niall Ferguson is Herzog Professor of Financial History at the Stern School of Business, New York University, Visiting Professor of History, Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford. His other books for Penguin include Empire, The Cash Nexus, Colossus, The War of the World, Virtual History, High Financier and Civilization.
The Good War
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Author : Studs Terkel
language : en
Publisher: New Press/ORIM
Release Date : 2011-07-26
The Good War written by Studs Terkel and has been published by New Press/ORIM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-26 with History categories.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “The richest and most powerful single document of the American experience in World War II” (The Boston Globe). “The Good War” is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter’s apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their experiences, producing what People magazine has called “a splendid epic history” of WWII. With this volume Terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history. “Tremendously compelling, somehow dramatic and intimate at the same time, as if one has stumbled on private accounts in letters locked in attic trunks . . . In terms of plain human interest, Mr. Terkel may well have put together the most vivid collection of World War II sketches ever gathered between covers.” —The New York Times Book Review “I promise you will remember your war years, if you were alive then, with extraordinary vividness as you go through Studs Terkel’s book. Or, if you are too young to remember, this is the best place to get a sense of what people were feeling.” —Chicago Tribune “A powerful book, repeatedly moving and profoundly disturbing.” —People
Scotland And The First World War
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Author : Gill Plain
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-14
Scotland And The First World War written by Gill Plain and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did the Scottish soldiers of the First World War think they were fighting for? Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation, belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland’s encounter with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war has shaped Scotland.
Looking For The Good War
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Author : Elizabeth D. Samet
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Looking For The Good War written by Elizabeth D. Samet and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with History categories.
“A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war.” —Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans—all of which were suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States’ “exceptional” history and destiny. Samet finds the war's ambivalent legacy in some of its most heavily mythologized figures: the war correspondent epitomized by Ernie Pyle, the character of the erstwhile G.I. turned either cop or criminal in the pulp fiction and feature films of the late 1940s, the disaffected Civil War veteran who looms so large on the screen in the Cold War Western, and the resurgent military hero of the post-Vietnam period. Taken together, these figures reveal key elements of postwar attitudes toward violence, liberty, and nation—attitudes that have shaped domestic and foreign policy and that respond in various ways to various assumptions about national identity and purpose established or affirmed by World War II. As the United States reassesses its roles in Afghanistan and the Middle East, the time has come to rethink our national mythology: the way that World War II shaped our sense of national destiny, our beliefs about the use of American military force throughout the world, and our inability to accept the realities of the twenty-first century’s decades of devastating conflict.
The Myth Of The Great War
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Author : John Mosier
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-03-29
The Myth Of The Great War written by John Mosier and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-29 with History categories.
“Students of military history love to argue, and John Mosier gives them much to argue about. From armaments and tactics to strategy and politics, he challenges conventional wisdom and forces a rethinking of the war that inaugurated the modern era.” — H.W. Brands, author of The First American and TR: The Last Romantic “Ther is much in this book I really admire, not least its brilliant recasting of the traditional military narrative.” — Niall Ferguson, author of The Pity of War “A compelling and novel reassessment of World War I military history.”— — Kirkus Reviews “Packed with evidence, much of it ingeniously obtained and argued.” — Washington Post
The Soviet Myth Of World War Ii
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Author : Jonathan Brunstedt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-15
The Soviet Myth Of World War Ii written by Jonathan Brunstedt 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 2021-07-15 with History categories.
Provides a bold new interpretation of the origins and development of World War II's remembrance in the USSR.
