Commitment and Sacrifice: Personal Diaries from the Great War, Shevin-Coetzee Marilyn, Coetzee Frans

Автор: Walling Michael G.
Название: Forgotten Sacrifice
ISBN: 1472811100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472811103
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Описание: In 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the largest offensive operation ever undertaken. Drawing on hundreds of oral histories from eyewitnesses and veterans of the convoys, and research into the Russian Navy archives at Murmansk, the author retells of one of World War II`s pivotal yet largely overlooked campaigns.

Автор: Schindler, John R.
Название: Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War
ISBN: 0275972046 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780275972042
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: This is the first account in English of a much-overlooked, but important, First World War battlefront located in the mountains astride the border between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Автор: Sasges Michael
Название: Once Well Beloved: Remembering a British Columbia Great War Sacrifice
ISBN: 0772672555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780772672551
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Описание: "Our well beloved dead who died that we might live." In the town of Merritt, in British Columbia's Nicola Valley, stands a granite cenotaph erected in memory of 44 men who died soldiering in the First World War. Those men came from a Nicola Valley that had been suddenly and dramatically settled just a decade before by the will of railway executives and the arrival of British colliers. Twelve of those soldiers are the subject of these pages--and through them, we meet the men, women and children of the Nicola Valley, the dead and their survivors: the people who built and were built by a Canadian community that was also distinctly British Columbian.

Автор: Anthony Barker; Maria Eug?nia Pereira; Maria Teres
Название: Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914–18)
ISBN: 3319668501 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319668505
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War.

Автор: Fawcett H. W., Hooper G. W. W.
Название: The Fighting at Jutland: The Personal Experiences of 45 Sailors of the Royal Navy at the Great Battle at Sea, 1916, During the First World War
ISBN: 0857064215 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857064219
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Описание: A Love Story. Dr. David Reynolds, a young American vascular surgeon, receives an invitation to practice surgery in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. His only hesitation is his Jewish background, even though he changed his name and stopped practicing Judaism 22 years ago. When he travels there and meets Jamila, the vibrant nurse who will be part of his surgical team, his reservations vanish. She is a Saudi princess and her father is powerful in the Kingdom, but she and David fall deeply in love. David converts to Islam to marry Jamila. After their marriage, when Davids true background is revealed, Jamilas father feels profoundly

Автор: Anthony Barker; Maria Eug?nia Pereira; Maria Teres
Название: Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914–18)
ISBN: 3319883275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319883274
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Описание: This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War. It begins by asking what exactly was so 'Great' about it, before turning to individual studies of various aspects of the war. These fall broadly into two categories. Firstly personal, micro-narratives that deal directly with the experience of war, often derived from contemporary interest in diaries and oral histories. Presenting both a close-up view of the viscerality, and the tedium and powerlessness of personal situations, these same narratives also address the effects of the war on hitherto under-regarded groups such as children and animals. Secondly, the authors look at the impact of the course of the war on theatres, often left out in reflections on the main European combatants and therefore not part of the regular iconography of the trenches in places such as Denmark, Canada, India, the Levant, Greece and East Africa.

Автор: Mark Honigsbaum
Название: A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics: Death, Panic and Hysteria, 1830-1920
ISBN: 1350160083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350160088
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Influenza was the great killer of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the so-called 'Russian flu' killed around 1 million people across Europe in 1889-93 - including the second-in-line to the British throne, the Duke of Clarence. The Spanish flu of 1918, meanwhile, would kill 50 million people - nearly 3% of the world's population. Here, Mark Honigsbaum outlines the history of influenza in the period, and describes how the fear of disease permeated Victorian culture. These fears were amplified by the invention of the telegraph and the ability of the new mass-market press to whip up public hysteria. The flu was therefore a barometer of wider fin de siecle social and cultural anxieties - playing on fears engendered by economic decline, technology, urbanisation and degeneration. A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics is a vital new contribution towards our understanding of European history and the history of the media.

Автор: Potter
Название: A Knight of Malta at the Court of Elizabeth I
ISBN: 1107092930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107092938
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The collected reports of Michel de Seure, French ambassador to England from 1560-2. The reports shed light on the difficulties of negotiating with Elizabeth I and French opinions on her policy, whilst appendices and prefatory material place de Seure`s time in England in the context of his career as a whole.

Автор: Wickett MR Jon
Название: The Great War Diaries of Stapleton Tench Eachus: A Signalman at War
ISBN: 1535339977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781535339971
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Описание: Pte Stapleton T. EACHUS enlisted on the 28 January 1913 and served with 'A' Squadron, Warwickshire Yeomanry. In April 1915 the Regiment went to Egypt and in August of that year 2/3rds of the Warwickshire Yeomanry went to Gallipoli whilst the remaining 1/3rd looked after the horses in Egypt, this 1/3rd later became a composite Regiment fighting the Sennusi in the Western Desert. Cpl EACHUS is invalided home on 15 December 1915 and is later posted to the Royal Engineers. His diary commences on 24 May 1916 when he is part of a draft of Royal Engineers going to France.Stapleton Tench Eachus was born in Stafford in 1889 and lived on Marston Road. In 1916 Stapleton was sent to France and over the next 3 years, he wrote in tiny notepads a set of 15 diaries about his adventures in the Great War. The Great War Diaries of Stapleton Tench Eachus - A Signalman at war are a transcription of a set of 15 diaries written during his service as a Signaller with the Royal Engineers, based mainly at the 4th Army Signal Office on the Western Front, May 1916 - January 1919, describing his initial journey to the frontline and signalling duties, visits to YMCA canteens and estaminets, his low opinion of the military leadership and criticism of the way in which the war was being fought (especially with regard to the Battle of the Somme), his views on the architecture of French churches and cathedrals and the French way of life, difficulties with the French language, Army discipline, German air raids and aerial warfare, the prevalence of war rumours, the ruins of Albert and Arras, Christmas celebrations, prostitution in Amiens, a visit to a relative's grave, his billets, the condition of recently-captured German territory, periods of leave back in the United Kingdom, and time spent in a Casualty Clearing Station before evacuation to a rest camp with stomach pains; then with the Army of Occupation in Germany, January - July 1919, referring to post-war conditions in the country including the lack of food, his billets, sightseeing and the local architecture, recreational activities including sports, the German way of life, drunken behaviour by British soldiers, British war graves and his witnessing a military funeral, fraternisation with German civilians and his improper arrest by Military Police.They are now available to purchase in paperback format with a glossy cover. The book contains 274 A4 size pages which cover the full set of 15 diaries that were written in tiny notebooks and posted back to England via the French postal system to avoid censorship by the military.

Автор: Jeremy Black
Название: The Continental Commitment: Britain, Hanover and Interventionism 1714-1793
ISBN: 0415646995 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415646994
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: A fascinating new historical perspective on the concept of the `national interest` and of Britain`s relationship with Europe, and its `continental commitment`.

Автор: Anne L. Webster
Название: Mississippians in the Great War: Selected Letters
ISBN: 1496812247 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496812247
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Even Mississippi textbooks rarely mention the part Mississippi men and women played in World War I. Mississippians in the Great War presents in their own words the story of Mississippians and their roles. This body of work divides into five sections, each associated with crucial dates of American action. Comments relating to various military actions are interspersed throughout to give the reader a context of the wide variety of experiences. Additionally, where possible, Anne L. Webster provides information on the soldier or sailor to show what became of him after his service.Webster examined newspapers from all corners of the state for “letters home,” most appearing in newspapers from Natchez, Greenville, and Pontotoc. The authors of the letters gathered here are from soldiers, aviators, sailors, and relief workers engaged in the service of their country. Letter writing skills varied from citizens of minimal literacy to those who would later become published authors and journalists.These letters reflect the experiences of green, young Mississippians as they endured training camp, voyaged across the Atlantic to France, and participated in horrific battles leaving some scarred for life. To round out the picture, Webster includes correspondence from nurses and YMCA workers who describe drills, uniforms, parades, and celebrations.

Автор: Newbold L. Iris, Newbold K. Bruce
Название: Without fear and with a manly heart: the great war letters and diaries of private james herbert gibson
ISBN: 1771123451 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781771123457
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Описание: Private James Herbert (Herb) Gibson was 26 years old when he volunteered for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Born near Perth, Ontario and descended from Scottish settlers, Gibson enlisted against his father's wishes because he viewed the war as justified and felt he needed to do his part. ""Without fear and with a manly heart"" collects his personal letters and diaries as well as those sent to him by family and friends. They reveal his beliefs, hopes, realizations, and tragedies through an account of his contribution to the war. The letters trace Gibson's wartime service from 1916 to 1919 from his enlistment and training with the 130th (Lanark and Renfrew) Battalion to his service on the Western Front with the 75th Battalion. Gibson was wounded twice, first near Vimy during the Gas Raid of March 1917 and again more seriously during a night patrol in July 1918 which ended his war. He also had to deal with tragedy on the home front from afar. Gibson's religious beliefs significantly influenced and sustained him through his darkest hours. He felt himself a gentle man caught up ""on an errand the full consequences of which we did not realize.