God On The Western Front

Author : Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271095981

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God on the Western Front by Joseph F. Byrnes Pdf

From 1914 to 1918, religious believers and hopeful skeptics tried to find meaning and purpose behind divinely willed destruction. God on the Western Front is a history of lived religion across national boundaries, religious affiliations, and class during World War I, utilizing an expansive record of primary sources. Joseph F. Byrnes takes readers on a tour of the battlefields of France, listening to the words of German, French, and English soldiers; going behind the lines to hear from the men and women who provided pastoral and medical care; and reviewing the religious writings of priests, bishops, ministers, and rabbis as they tried to make sense of it all. The story begins with citizens at home as they responded to the obligation to make war and then focuses on the “God-talk” and “nation-talk” that soldiers used to express their foundational religious experiences. Byrnes’s study attends to the words of average men who struggled to articulate their religious sentiments, alongside the generals Helmuth von Moltke, Ferdinand Foch, and Douglas Haig and the soldier theologians Franz Rosenzweig, Paul Tillich, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy. In doing so, he shows how religious and battle experience are intertwined and showcases the wide range of spiritual responses that emerged across boundaries. Going beyond the typical constraints of studies focused either on one nation or one confessional affiliation, Byrnes’s international and interfaith approach breaks new ground. It will appeal to scholars and students of modern European history, religious history, and the history of war.

Author : JOSEPH F. BYRNES
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271095113

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GOD ON THE WESTERN FRONT by JOSEPH F. BYRNES Pdf

Author : Prof (Dr) D.Banerjee
Publisher : KY Publications
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Beyond the Western Front: A Study of Siegfried Sassoon’s Poetry by Prof (Dr) D.Banerjee Pdf

Dr Dharmadas Banerjee‘s book Beyond the Western Front: A Study of Siegfried Sassoon’s Poetry is an attempt to look ‗beyond‘ the popular evaluation of Sassoon as a War Poet. By the writer‘s own admission he wants to capture Sassoon‘s versatile poetic genius to dispel this popular appraisal. A poet of rare merit Sassoon is also known for his romantic sensibilities. His love for the English countryside is evident in his autobiographical memoirs. His Diaries and letters are a potent source to know about the profound influence that the catastrophic First World War had on him. The author has also tried to focus on Sassoon‘s quest for ―the world undiscovered within us‖ which is discernible in the poems of the later phase of Sassoon‘s poetic career

Author : Michael Senior
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526709578

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Victory on the Western Front by Michael Senior Pdf

Marshal Foch, the Generalissimo of the Allied Armies during the last stages of the First World War, commenting on the victories won during the Hundred Days when the Germans were driven back on the Western Front, said Never at any time in history has the British army achieved greater results in attack than in this unbroken offensive. The scale, speed and success of this offensive have provided historians with fertile ground for interpretation and debate. How did the British Expeditionary Force, having endured the bitter disappointments and heavy losses at Aubers Ridge, Loos, the Somme, Passchendaele, Cambrai and during the German spring offensives of 1918 turn the tide of the war and comprehensively defeat the enemy in the field? This is the fascinating question that Michael Senior tackles in this lucid and thought-provoking study. He considers the reasons for the stunning British victories and examines the factors that underpinned the eventual success of the BEF. In particular he shows how tactical and technical developments evolved during the course of the war and merged in a way that gave the British a decisive advantage during the final months of the fighting. Innovations in guns and gunnery, in shells, aircraft and tanks, and a massive increase in industrial output, played key parts, as did the continuous process of adaptation, experimentation and invention that went on throughout the war years. The result was an army that could take advantage of the unprecedented opportunity presented by the failure of the German spring offensive of 1918. Michael Senior provides a challenging and controversial analysis of the underlying reasons for the success of the BEF. It is essential reading for anyone who is keen to learn about the extraordinary development of the British army throughout the war and to understand why, and how, the Germans were beaten.

Author : Donald J Przebowski
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462839797

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Aryan, the Last Prussian by Donald J Przebowski Pdf

This is the story of a Prussian family, and their values. Duty, honor and country, as with all patriots, were a Prussians most precious valuesa sacred trust. Karl von Braun, the last Prussian, is born into an historical period of political and national turmoil, and is morally trapped between Prussian tradition and National Socialism. Various scholars have labored to explain the reasons for the rise of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism. This fictional novel considers the depression that followed World War I, philosophical principles, the effects of the Treaty of Versailles, and the tradition of Prussian militarism.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Namaskar Book
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Diary of a Nursing Sister on The Western Front,1914-1915 by Anonymous Pdf

Witness the heroism and sacrifices of nursing sisters on the Western Front through the poignant diary entries of an anonymous author. Diary of A Nursing Sister on The Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous: Enter the wartime world of the Western Front with the candid and moving Diary of A Nursing Sister on The Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous. This diary offers a unique perspective on the First World War and the experiences of the nurses who tended to the wounded and dying soldiers. The author's honest and poignant reflections make this book a must-read for students of history and human nature. Why This Book? Diary of A Nursing Sister on The Western Front, 1914-1915 is a powerful and candid account of one of the most significant events in modern history. The anonymous author's insights and observations make this book a testament to the human experience and our resilience in the face of unimaginable adversity. Anonymous, an unknown wartime nurse, provides a unique and compelling perspective on the events of the First World War. Diary of A Nursing Sister on The Western Front, 1914-1915 is a tribute to her courageous service and her enduring legacy in the field of nursing.

Author : John Laffin
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752495255

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On the Western Front by John Laffin Pdf

A serious attempt to illustrate the humanity of the soldier on the Western Front, this title reflects World War I as they saw it: from first shot to last. These tales, told to fellow men in the trenches, behind the lines, at base hospitals and at the estaminets and billets during rest periods, have been recorded here.

Author : James T. Blake
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781425108649

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The God Chronicles by James T. Blake Pdf

For aeons the universe has been ruled by the council of the Educational and Scientific Research Anomaly (ESRA). Their CEO, Draper, has developed a program of sending trainees to manage emerging planetary systems according to the ESRA doctrine of "create life in your own image." Draper sends what seems to be his favourite trainee, God, to the Sun system in the Milky Way to do just that, but, unbeknown to Draper, God has his own theory on life creation called evolution. God sets evolution in motion on the planet he has called Earth but when the development is too slow he starts to meddle with the process causing the planet to be populated by giant creatures he calls dinosaurs. He reports back to Draper who strangely, rather than giving him a bollicking, summons the Intergalactic Trouble-shooter, Armageddon, to help....... Armageddon manages to sort most of the problems and gradually gets seduced into helping God with his other hare-brained scheme called religion. Religion takes off in different forms so God sets himself up to become a Messiah to unite them all. The plan falters when he gets a local girl pregnant but Armageddon comes up with an idea that will make the child, Jesus Christ, the said Messiah. It all goes pear shaped when the local authorities crucify Jesus but Armageddon spirits him back to ESRA where they attempt to save his life. The ruling council aren't happy but they are sufficiently intrigued with evolution and religion that they approve a watching brief on Earth. As the planet sinks into a mess of wars, conflict and religious intolerance Armageddon finds a loophole in the directive and he and God help out where they can while preparing for the return of Jesus.

Author : Thomas Tiplady
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Soul of the Soldier: Sketches from the Western Battle-Front by Thomas Tiplady Pdf

"The sketches in this book and in my previous one, "The Cross at the Front," are attempts to show the soul of the soldier serving in France as I have seen it during the year and a half that I have been with him. It is a padre's privilege and duty to be the voice with which, in public worship, the soldiers speak to God; and through which their last thoughts are borne to their friends at home. He is their voice both when they are sick or wounded, and when they lie silent in the grave. He speaks of their hopes and fears, hardships and heroisms, laughter and tears. As best he may he tries to tell, to those who have a right and a longing to know, how they thought, and how they bore themselves in the great day of trial when all risked their lives and many laid them down." -Preface

Author : Dorothy Cave
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Mescalero Indians
ISBN : 9780865345201

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God's Warrior by Dorothy Cave Pdf

Fellow priests called his ministry "just short of a miracle." A superior castigated him as "an adventurer," Apaches and migrant Mexicans claimed him "one of us." To his fellow soldiers he was "a man's man." Of himself he chuckled, "I've been in mischief all my life." He was Father Albert Braun, OFM, in turn mule-headed, explosive, or penitent. Vigorously outspoken, he once charged a group of august bishops to "get off your butts and out among the people." His sense of duty was profound, his humor crusty. He arrived in New Mexico as missionary to the Mescalero Apaches just after Pancho Villa's raid, was a highly decorated chaplain in both World Wars, and after World War II he participated in the top-secret birth of the first hydrogen bomb on a south Pacific atoll. Drawing on archival and military records, letters, memoirs, and interviews, Dorothy Cave chronicles the amazing life of this last of the frontier priests from his birth in the lusty, brawling California of 1889, to his death and burial in 1983 in the church he built for his beloved Mescaleros. This book is at once a biography and a kaleidoscopic history of the tumultuous times in which he lived. From it there emerges the inspiring saga of a man who changed thousands of lives with faith, humor, dedication, and a generous dash of pure hard-headed cussedness. Dorothy Cave spent much of her childhood exploring with her geologist father the isolated villages and mountains of northern New Mexico, a practice she continues today. Although her formal education was at Agnes Scott College and the Universities of Colorado and Wyoming, she feels her true education has come from these remote but rapidly vanishing hamlets and pueblos and from the soil-rooted wisdom of those who live in them. Cave has traveled widely, danced with the Atlanta Ballet, acted, and taught. She is the author of two histories: "Beyond Courage," which won the New Mexico Presswomen's Zia Award, and "Four Trails to Valor," both from Sunstone Press. Her two novels, "Mountains of the Blue Stone" and "Song on a Blue Guitar" were also published by Sunstone Press. Cave served as historical consultant for two documentary films: "Colors of Courage," produced by Scott Henry and E. Anthony Martinez for the University of New Mexico's Center for Regional Studies; and for Aaron Wilson's award-winning "A New Mexico Story," based largely on her "Beyond Courage." She appears in both films as narrator/commentator. "Beyond Courage" also inspired composer Steven Melillo's musical opus of the same title, acclaimed on two continents.

Author : Miles Huntley Hodges
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973681038

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America’s Rise to Greatness Under God’s Covenant by Miles Huntley Hodges Pdf

This book is part of a three-part series on America as a Covenant Nation. This volume covers from the rise of America’s industrial revolution in the late 1800s to America’s taking the position in the Cold-War 1950s as the leader of the “Free World.” It is a typical social (political, economic, and military) history of America—untypical however in how it connects the intellectual, moral and spiritual character of America with those same social events. It takes the reader through the days of Western imperialism, World War One, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, World War Two, the beginning of the Cold War, and finally the age of Middle-America’s grand success (the 1950s). It focuses heavily on the leaders (most frequently the country’s presidents) and how their own personal spirituality shaped their times—and the way the Christian community in particular responded to both the social challenges facing it and the spiritual leadership attempting to inspire and guide it. It seeks to give the Christian reader (or Secular reader if he or she is willing to be challenged) a highly-detailed knowledge of the historical path—social and spiritual—that has brought us to today’s world ... and its enormous challenges.

Author : Norman Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0199253404

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God's Playground A History of Poland by Norman Davies Pdf

This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently fallen prey to interested parties. Professor Norman Davies adopts a sceptical stance towards all existing interpretations and attempts to bring a strong dose of common sense to his theme. He presents the most comprehensive survey in English of this frequently maligned and usually misunderstood country.

Author : Malcolm Lambert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681772752

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God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath by Malcolm Lambert Pdf

With ramifications on geopolitics today, a vivid chronicle of the Christian and Islamic struggle to control the sacred places of Palestine and the Middle East between the seventh and thirteenth centuries. Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin: each resonated on the opposing sides in the holy wars of the Middle Ages and each has been invoked during the war on terror. A chronicle of the Christian and Islamic struggle to control the sacred places of Palestine and the Middle East between the seventh and thirteenth centuries, this dynamic new history demonstrates that this simple opposition ignores crucial differences. Placing an equal emphasis on the inner histories of Christianity and Islam, the book traces the origins and development of crusade and jihad, showing for example that jihad reflected internal tensions in Islam from its beginnings. The narrative also reveals the ways in which crusade and jihad were used to disguise ambitions for power and to justify atrocity and yet also inspired acts of great chivalry and heroic achievement. The story brims with larger than life characters, among them Richard the Lionheart, Nur al-Din, Saladin, Baybars, and Ghengiz Khan. Lambert concludes by considers the long after-effects of jihad and crusade, including the role of the latter in French imperialism and of the former in the wars now afflicting the Middle East and parts of Africa. This vivid, balanced account will interest all readers who wish to understand the complexities of the medieval world and how it relates our own.

Author : Lucius Bullard
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606939925

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God's Big Bang by Lucius Bullard Pdf

God's Big Bang presents a short history of science starting with the Greek scientists of the sixth century B.C.E. and moving forward through the twentieth century A.D. The accomplishments of these brilliants minds are expressed in simple terms by a brief textual description or with an algebraic depiction. Because science is accumulative, it is important to have a background in these foundational sciences before moving on to the complication science of the Big Bang theory. Taking the unique approach of using Laplace's probability theory to show that the chances of random generation for the universe without intelligent design are infinitesimally small, God's Big Bang provides a new look at the creation of the universe and the world we live in.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438113654

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All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque by Harold Bloom Pdf

Remarque's 1929 novel is among the finest antiwar literature written after the First World War.