Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced (Pen & Sword Paperback) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0850525063 ISBN 13: 9780850525069

Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Facing Armageddon is the first scholarly work on the 1914-18 War to explore, on a worldwide basis, the real nature of the participants' experience. Sixty-four scholars from all over the globe, including the USA, Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Holland and the UK, deliver the fruits of recent on what civilians and servicemen passed through, in the air, on the sea and on land. Looking back from the final decade of the 20th century, we can see clearly how the First World War has shaped the fundamental character of our century. The Second World War and the Cold War were among its direct, long term consequences. Without an awareness of its effects on the individuals and societies involved, perceptible even now, we cannot fully comprehend the modern world.
Eighty years after the first day on the Somme, when no fewer than 57,000 British soldiers were killed, wounded or missing, there are still men and women alive, including a handful of actual combatants, who can remember the war. Even now, anyone who visits Ypres, Thiepval or Verdun feels the immensity of that terrible ordeal. Facing Armageddon, lucidly written and vividly illustrated, is aimed at those, specialist, student and general readers alike, who seek a deeper understanding of human conflict in our times.

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The First World War shaped the fundamental character of the rest of the 20th century. Without an understanding of its impact, it is impossible to fully comprehend the modern world. This monumental work presents the most recent findings of 64 outstanding scholars; the most significant book on World War I in many years.The fascinating individual articles include: -- Martin Gilbert: Winston Churchill and the Strain of Office, 1914-1915-- Jack Bruce: The War in the Air: The Men and Their Machines-- James Cook: The American Soldiers in France, 1917-19-- Jane Leonard: The Reactions of Irish Officers in the British Army to the Easter Rising of 1916-- Thomas Nevin: Ernst Junger: German Stormtrooper Chronicler-- Edward M. Spiers: The Scottish Soldiers at War-- John M. Bourne: The British Working Man in Arms-- Diana Shaw: The Forgotten Army of Women: Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps-- Andrew Bamji: Facial Surgery: The Patient's Experience-- Vladimir Buldakov, Sergei Koudryashev, Genadii Bordiugov: A Nation at War: The Russian Experience-- Bernard Waites: Peoples of the Underdeveloped World-- Marc Derez: The Flames of Louvain: The War Experience of an Academic Community-- Rashid I. Khalidi: The Arab Experience of the War-- Eberhard Demm: German Teachers at War-- Sharon Ouditt: Tommy's Sisters: The Representation of Working Women's Experience-- Patrick Quinn: The Experience of War in American Patriotic Literature-- Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau: French Children as a Target for Propaganda-- Nicholas Reeves: Through the Eye of the Camera: Contemporary Cinema Audiences and Their Experience of War in the Film "Battle of the Somme"

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0850525063
• ISBN 13: 9780850525069
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 960
• Herausgeber: Cecil Hugh, Liddle Peter
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