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Author : Émile Joseph Galet
Publisher : Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company [1931]
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Belgium
ISBN : UOM:39015028589987
Author : Lieutenant- Galet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Belgium
ISBN : 1494105403
This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Author : Emile J. Galet
Publisher : Ayer Company Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1977-06-01
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 0836971361
Author : Emile Joseph Galet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1063347901
Author : Émile Joseph Galet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:1374376991
Author : Jean-Michel Veranneman
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526716620
A historian and former Belgian diplomat sheds light on the country’s tumultuous experience during WWI. In August of 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defenses of the French army. Yet the Belgian army resisted, managing to hold a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres until the Armistice of 1918. Because of their heroic defense, Belgium and its King enjoyed enormous international prestige after the war. Occupied Belgium suffered civilian executions and severe destruction. It was widely stripped of its highly developed industrial infrastructure. It was saved from starvation by food shipments from the United States which came in via neutral Holland. Four and a half years later, Belgium emerged a different country with experiences that would leave a lasting on its spirit as well as wide-ranging political implications.
Author : Felicity Rash,Christophe Declercq
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319731087
This book addresses the many avenues that are still left unexplored when it comes to our understanding of the First World War in the Low Countries. With the ongoing the centenary of the Great War, many events have been organized in the United Kingdom to commemorate its military events, its socio-political consequences, and its cultural legacy. Of these events, very few have paid attention to the fates of Belgium or the Netherlands, even though it was the invasion of Belgium in August 1914 that was the catalyst for Great Britain declaring war. The occupation of Belgium had long-term consequences for its people, but much of the military and social history of the Western Front concentrates on northern France, and the Netherlands is largely forgotten as a nation affected by the First World War. By opening the field beyond the military and beyond the front, this collection explores the interdisciplinary and international nature of the Great War.
Author : Nick Lloyd
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631497957
“A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration.… Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War.” —Lawrence James, Times The Telegraph • Best Books of the Year The Times of London • Best Books of the Year A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than three million Allied and German soldiers struggled during four years of almost continuous combat. It has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of human life and a symbol of the horrors of industrialized warfare. In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and taking us to the Armistice of November 1918. Drawing on French, British, German, and American sources, Lloyd weaves a kaleidoscopic chronicle of the Marne, Passchendaele, the Meuse-Argonne, and other critical battles, which reverberated across Europe and the wider war. From the trenches where men as young as 17 suffered and died, to the headquarters behind the lines where Generals Haig, Joffre, Hindenburg, and Pershing developed their plans for battle, Lloyd gives us a view of the war both intimate and strategic, putting us amid the mud and smoke while at the same time depicting the larger stakes of every encounter. He shows us a dejected Kaiser Wilhelm II—soon to be eclipsed in power by his own generals—lamenting the botched Schlieffen Plan; French soldiers piling atop one another in the trenches of Verdun; British infantryman wandering through the frozen wilderness in the days after the Battle of the Somme; and General Erich Ludendorff pursuing a ruthless policy of total war, leading an eleventh-hour attack on Reims even as his men succumbed to the Spanish Flu. As Lloyd reveals, far from a site of attrition and stalemate, the Western Front was a simmering, dynamic “cauldron of war” defined by extraordinary scientific and tactical innovation. It was on the Western Front that the modern technologies—machine guns, mortars, grenades, and howitzers—were refined and developed into effective killing machines. It was on the Western Front that chemical warfare, in the form of poison gas, was first unleashed. And it was on the Western Front that tanks and aircraft were introduced, causing a dramatic shift away from nineteenth-century bayonet tactics toward modern combined arms, reinforced by heavy artillery, that forever changed the face of war. Brimming with vivid detail and insight, The Western Front is a work in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman and John Keegan, Rick Atkinson and Antony Beevor: an authoritative portrait of modern warfare and its far-reaching human and historical consequences.
Author : Libert De Flemalle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0267807430
Excerpt from Fighting With King Albert The Allied peoples and friends all over the world have given their unstinted admiration to our valorous Army gloriously struggling against an adversary extra ordinarily powerful by reason Of the crushing superiority Of his numbers and the long preparations which he had been making for the world-war which he has let loose. In all those countries where the rem nants Of our scattered nation found a refuge, the marked cordiality Of their reception has in some measure assuaged the grief Of the Belgian whom brute force had compelled to flee from fire and massacre. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Spencer Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135684259
First published in 1996. The First World War was the single most important event of the twentieth century. This volume concentrates on non-U.S. aspects of the conflict. Organized alphabetically, its more than 600 detailed entries offer information and insight on such subjects as the causes of the conflict, major battles and campaigns, weapons systems (including military aviation, chemical warfare, the submarine, and the tank), and the terms of the peace. Some 350 biographies provide information on the roles played in the conflict by generals, admirals, and civilian leaders. There are also biographies of individuals who were shaped by the war, such as Charles De Gaulle, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin; essays on each of the countries involved in the conflict; new appraisals of such subjects as military medicine and artillery tactics; and essays on such diverse subjects as art, literature, and music in the war. Each entry has references for additional reading, and a subject index provides easy access. The volume is an excellent reference source for scholar and neophyte alike.
Author : John de Courcy MacDonnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Belgium
ISBN : BNC:1001922996
Author : Mario Draper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319703862
This book explores Belgian state-building through the prism of its army from independence to the First World War. It argues that party-politics, which often ran along geographical, linguistic, and religious lines, prevented both Flemings and Walloons from reconciling their regional identities into a unified concept of Belgian nationalism. Equally, it obstructed the army from satisfactorily preparing to uphold Belgium’s imposed neutrality before 1914. Situated uneasily between the two powerhouses of nineteenth-century Europe, Belgium offers a unique insight into the concepts of citizenship and militarisation in a divided society in the era of fervent nationalism. By examining the composition, experience, and image of the army’s officer corps and rank and file, as well as those of the auxiliary forces, this book shows that although military and civilian society often stood aloof from one another, the army, as a national institution, offered a fleeting glimpse into the dichotomy that was pre-war Belgium.
Author : Anne Cipriano Venzon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135684532
First Published in 1999. Includes six maps.
Author : Ian F. W. Beckett
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300163667
Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World War that continue to shape the world today. Focusing on episodes both well known and scarcely remembered, Beckett tells the story of the Great War from a new perspective, stressing accident as much as strategy, the small as well as the great, the social as well as the military, and the long term as much as the short term. The Making of the First World War is global in scope. The book travels from the deliberately flooded fields of Belgium to the picture palaces of Britain's cinema, from the idealism of Wilson's Washington to the catastrophic German Lys offensive of 1918. While war is itself an agent of change, Beckett shows, the most significant developments occur not only on the battlefields or in the corridors of power, but also in hearts and minds. Nor may the decisive turning points during years of conflict be those that were thought to be so at the time. With its wide reach and unexpected conclusions, this book revises—and expands—our understanding of the legacy of the First World War.
Author : Spencer Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134817504
An up-to-date and concise account of WWI for teachers and students looking for a balanced introduction. It details both the military operations as well as the development of war aims, alliance diplomacy and the war on the home front.
