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Author : Terry Copp
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-08
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 9781487541552

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Montreal at War, 1914–1918 by Terry Copp Pdf

Montreal at War tells the story of how citizens in Canada's largest city responded to the challenges of the First World War. Drawing from newspapers, journals, government reports, and archival records, Terry Copp - one of Canada's leading military historians - raises important questions about how the Canadian war experience has been interpreted, and the ways in which hindsight has privileged some voices over others. Painting a picture of life in Montreal during the first years of the twentieth century, Montreal at War addresses responses to the outbreak of war in Europe and the process of raising an army for service overseas. It details the shock of intense combat and heavy casualties, studies the mobilization of volunteers, and follows the experience of battalions from Montreal to the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The crisis of conscription is described in the context of national and local developments, and great attention is paid to the experiences of both the army overseas and civilians at home. Challenging long-held assumptions, Montreal at War aims to understand the war experience as it unfolded, approaching history from the perspective of those who lived through it.

Author : David Stevenson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 071819795X

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1914-1918 by David Stevenson Pdf

Account of the major events of the First World War.

Author : C.R.M.F. Cruttwell
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780897336604

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A History of the Great War, 1914–1918 by C.R.M.F. Cruttwell Pdf

This vivid, detailed history of World War I presents the general reader with an accurate and readable account of the campaigns and battles, along with brilliant portraits of the leaders and generals of all countries involved. Scrupulously fair, praising and blaming friend and enemy as circumstances demand, this has become established as the classic account of the first world-wide war.

Author : R J Q Adams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349114542

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The Great War, 1914–18 by R J Q Adams Pdf

The Great War is a collection of seven original essays and three critical comments by senior scholars dealing with the greatest conflict in modern history to its time - the 1914-18 World War. The Great War is edited by the distinguished historian of the First World War, R.J.Q.Adams.

Author : Ian F. W. Beckett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317866145

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The Great War by Ian F. W. Beckett Pdf

The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunderstanding and differing national war aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences for both soldiers and civilians, for science and technology, for national politics and for pan-European revolution. The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers, changed the balance of power and influenced the arts, national memory and political thought. The reach of this acount is global, showing how a conflict among European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embraced Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States.

Author : Gerd Hardach
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0520043979

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The First World War, 1914-1918 by Gerd Hardach Pdf

Author : Marc Ferro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134499212

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The Great War by Marc Ferro Pdf

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : G. J. Meyer
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780553382402

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A World Undone by G. J. Meyer Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world “Thundering, magnificent . . . [A World Undone] is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. . . . It will earn generations of admirers.”—The Washington Times On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War: four long years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until 1914 had dominated the globe. Praise for A World Undone “Meyer’s sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire . . . are lifelike and plausible. His account of the tragic folly of Gallipoli is masterful. . . . [A World Undone] has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured”—Los Angeles Times “An original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century.”—Steve Gillon, resident historian, The History Channel

Author : Anthony Clayton
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474603331

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Paths of Glory by Anthony Clayton Pdf

Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military, and his book is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the First World War. He reveals why and how the French army fought as it did. He profiles its senior commanders - Joffre, Petain, Nivelle and Foch - and analyses its major campaigns both on the Western Front and in the Near East and Africa. PATHS OF GLORY also considers in detail the officers, how they kept their trenches and how men from very different areas of France fought and died together. He scrutinises the make-up and performance of France's large colonial armies, and investigates the mutinies of 1917. Ultimately, he reveals how the traumatic French experience of the 1914-18 war indelibly shaped a nation.

Author : Brian Douglas Tennyson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810888609

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Canada's Great War, 1914-1918 by Brian Douglas Tennyson Pdf

In Canada’s Great War, 1914-1918, historian Brian Douglas Tennyson argues that Canada’s enthusiasm had the ironic effect of bringing this British Dominion nation much closer to its southern neighbor, the United States, especially after the latter joined the fray.

Author : Andrej Mitrović
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1557534764

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Serbia's Great War, 1914-1918 by Andrej Mitrović Pdf

Mitrovic's volume fills the gap in Balkan history by presenting an in-depth look at Serbia and its role in WWI. The Serbian experience was in fact of major significance in this war. In the interlocking development of the wartime continent, Serbia's plight is part of a European jigsaw. Also, the First World War was crucial as a stage in the construction of Serbian national mythology in the twentieth century.

Author : Colin Nicolson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317888253

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Longman Companion to the First World War by Colin Nicolson Pdf

This new Companion covers one of the most devastating conflicts in modern history. The Great War traumatised a generation and shaped the whole of the twentieth century. Speaking as loudly as any first-hand account, the facts and figures laid out in this volume reveal the sheer massive destruction caused by the war. Covering all aspects of the conflict from its origins and course to the peace settlements and the crises they generated, Colin Nicolson unravels historical controversies and also considers the social, cultural and economic consequences of the war for the whole of Europe. Containing all the essential facts and figures this Companion will be greatly welcomed by teachers, academics and students alike.

Author : Aled Eirug
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786833150

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The Opposition to the Great War in Wales 1914-1918 by Aled Eirug Pdf

This study is the first thorough analysis of the extent of the opposition to the Great War in Wales, and is the most extensive study of the anti-war movement in any part of Britain. It is, therefore, a significant contribution to our understanding of people’s responses to the conflict, and the difficulty of mobilising the population for total war. The anti-war movement in Wales and beyond developed quickly from the initial shock of the declaration of war, to the civil disobedience of anti-war activists and the industrial discontent excited by the Russian Revolution and experienced in areas such as the south Wales coalfield in 1917. The differing responses to the war within Wales are explored in this book, which charts how the pacifist tradition of nineteenth-century Welsh Nonconformity was quickly overturned. The two main elements of the anti-war movement are analysed in depth: the pacifist religious opposition, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and the Nonconformist dissidents who were particularly influential in north and west Wales; and the political opposition concentrated in the Independent Labour Party and among the radical left within the South Wales Miners’ Federation.

Author : Laurent Mirouze
Publisher : Militaria Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 2352502683

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World War One Soldiers by Laurent Mirouze Pdf

Never before have actual battle uniforms, individual equipment and weapons of the infantrymen of the great war been illustrated in such authentic detail. Original surviving items, painstakingly assembled from rare private and public collections, are illustrated in full color on live models, just as they were worn in the battlefield. Each of these 31 soldiers: British, Belgian, French, German, Russian, Austrian, Italian, America, is photographed from both front and back, with key diagrams, and accompanied by a detailed commentary.

Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0393305643

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The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 by Byron Farwell Pdf

The authors present the state of the art in the rapidly growing field of visualization as related to problems in urban and regional planning. The significance and timeliness of this volume consist in its reflection of several developments in literature and the challenges cities are facing. First, the unsustainability of many of our current paradigms of development has become evidently clear. We are entering an era in which communities across the globe are strengthening their connections to the global flows of capital, goods, ideas, technologies and values while facing at the same time serious dislocations in their traditional socioeconomic structures. While the impending scenarios of climate change impacts remind us about the integrated ecological system that we are part of, the current discussions about global recession in the media alert us and make us aware of the occasional perils of the globalized economic system. The globally dispersed, intricately integrated and hyper-complex socioeconomic-ecological system is difficult to analyze, comprehend and communicate without effective visualization tools. Given that planners are at the frontlines in the effort to prepare as well as build resilience in the impacted communities, appropriate visualization tools are indispensable for effective planning. Second, planners have largely been slow to incorporate the advances in visualization research emerging from other domains of inquiry.