Trench Talk

Author : Peter Doyle,Julian Walker
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752479217

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Trench Talk by Peter Doyle,Julian Walker Pdf

The First World War largely directed the course of the twentieth century. Fought on three continents, the war saw 14 million killed and 34 million wounded. Its impact shaped the world we live in today, and the language of the trenches continues to live in the modern consciousness. One of the enduring myths of the First World War is that the experience of the trenches was not talked about. Yet dozens of words entered or became familiar in the English language as a direct result of the soldiers' experiences. This book looks at how the experience of the First World War changed the English language, adding words that were both in slang and standard military use, and modifying the usage and connotations of existing words and phrases. Illustrated with material from the authors' collections and photographs of the objects of the war, the book will look at how the words emerged into everyday language.

Author : Peter Doyle,Julian Walker
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752479217

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Trench Talk by Peter Doyle,Julian Walker Pdf

The First World War largely directed the course of the twentieth century. Fought on three continents, the war saw 14 million killed and 34 million wounded. Its impact shaped the world we live in today, and the language of the trenches continues to live in the modern consciousness.One of the enduring myths of the First World War is that the experience of the trenches was not talked about. Yet dozens of words entered or became familiar in the English language as a direct result of the soldiers’ experiences. This book looks at how the experience of the First World War changed the English language, adding words that were both in slang and standard military use, and modifying the usage and connotations of existing words and phrases. Illustrated with material from the authors’ collections and photographs of the objects of the war, the book will look at how the words emerged into everyday language.

Author : R. E. CLOSE
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781329707689

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TRENCH by R. E. CLOSE Pdf

In book eight of the Helioseed Chronicles, Arle's best friend, Trench, has a crisis of faith. What follows is and adventure through fire and ice that takes Trench and his companions on a path that covers the world of Galn.

Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780486477503

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War Slang by Paul Dickson Pdf

From the 19th century's "boodle" to the "deep serious" of Vietnam and beyond, America's foremost expert on slang reveals military lingo at its most colorful, innovative, brutal, and ironic. Recommended by The New York Times' language maven William Safire, this up-to-date reference features convenient dictionary-style entries arranged chronologically by conflict.

Author : Helen Fry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300238600

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The Walls Have Ears by Helen Fry Pdf

A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners' cells were to be bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record and transcribe their private conversations. This mission proved so effective that it would go on to be set up at three further sites--and provide the Allies with crucial insight into new technology being developed by the Nazis. In this astonishing history, Helen Fry uncovers the inner workings of the bugging operation. On arrival at stately-homes-turned-prisons like Trent Park, high-ranking German generals and commanders were given a "phony" interrogation, then treated as "guests," wined and dined at exclusive clubs, and encouraged to talk. And so it was that the Allies got access to some of Hitler's most closely guarded secrets--and from those most entrusted to protect them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1973-03
Category : Industrial hygiene
ISBN : UIUC:30112104143950

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Job Safety & Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frederic Winkowski
Publisher : Glitterati
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1943876460

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Trench Talk Trench Life by Frederic Winkowski Pdf

The handsomely illustrated Trench Talk Trench Life will give readers insight about the drastic living circumstances of characters Tommy Atkins, Poilu, and Doughboy, respectively the foot soldiers of Britain, France, and the United States This boots-on-the ground guide provides a unique introduction to life on the Western Front during World War I. Readers will learn the meaning behind the long lost wartime language of these soldiers, with such words and phrases as: Black Hand Gang, Ace, Crummy, Barker, and Dud.

Author : Julian Walker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350012745

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Words and the First World War by Julian Walker Pdf

"An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender and class to give a many-sided picture of language used during the conflict." The Spectator First World War expert Julian Walker looks at how the conflict shaped English and its relationship with other languages. He considers language in relation to mediation and authenticity, as well as the limitations and potential of different kinds of verbal communication. Walker also examines: - How language changed, and why changed language was used in communications - Language used at the Front and how the 'language of the war' was commercially exploited on the Home Front - The relationship between language, soldiers and class - The idea of the 'indescribability' of the war and the linguistic codes used to convey the experience 'Languages of the front' became linguistic souvenirs of the war, abandoned by soldiers but taken up by academics, memoir writers and commentators, leaving an indelible mark on the words we use even today.

Author : Midge Gillies
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781315514

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Army Wives by Midge Gillies Pdf

Most families have an army wife somewhere in their past. Over the centuries they have followed their men to the front, helped them keep order in far-flung parts of the empire or waited anxiously at home. Army Wives uses first hand accounts, letters and diaries to tell their story. We meet the wives who made the arduous journey to the Crimean war and witnessed battle at close quarters. We hear the story of life in the Raj and the, often terrifying, experiences of the women who lived through its dying days. We explore the pressures of being a modern army wife - whether living in barracks or trying to maintain a normal home life outside 'the patch'. In the twentieth century two world wars produced new generations of army wives who forged friendships that lasted into peacetime. Army Wives reveals their experience and that of a new breed of independent women who supported their men through the Cold War to the current war on terror. Midge Gillies, author of acclaimed The Barbed-Wire University, looks at how industrial warfare means husbands can survive battle with life-changing injuries that are both mental and physical - and what that means for their family. She describes how army wives communicate with their husbands - via letters and coded messages, to more immediate, but less intimate, texts and Skype. She examines bereavement, from the seances, public memorials and deaths in a foreign field of the Great War to the modern media coverage of flag-draped coffins returning home by military plane. Above all, Army Wives examines what it really means to be part of the 'army family'.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1478 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024419777

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Examination of the War on Poverty by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty Pdf

Author : Clémentine Tholas-Disset,Karen A. Ritzenhoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137436436

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Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I by Clémentine Tholas-Disset,Karen A. Ritzenhoff Pdf

Humor and entertainment were vital to the war effort during World War I. While entertainment provided relief to soldiers in the trenches, it also built up support for the war effort on the home front. This book looks at transnational war culture by examining seemingly light-hearted discourses on the Great War.

Author : Amy Lidster,Sonia Massai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316517482

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Shakespeare at War by Amy Lidster,Sonia Massai Pdf

The first material history of how Shakespeare has been 'recruited' in wartime.

Author : Jörn Leonhard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1105 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674244801

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Pandora’s Box by Jörn Leonhard Pdf

Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize “The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict.” —Richard J. Evans, Times Literary Supplement In this monumental history of the First World War, Germany’s leading historian of the period offers a dramatic account of its origins, course, and consequences. Jörn Leonhard treats the clash of arms with a sure feel for grand strategy. He captures the slow attrition, the race for ever more destructive technologies, and the grim experiences of frontline soldiers. But the war was more than a military conflict and he also gives us the perspectives of leaders, intellectuals, artists, and ordinary men and women around the world as they grappled with the urgency of the moment and the rise of unprecedented political and social pressures. With an unrivaled combination of depth and global reach, Pandora’s Box reveals how profoundly the war shaped the world to come. “[An] epic and magnificent work—unquestionably, for me, the best single-volume history of the war I have ever read...It is the most formidable attempt to make the war to end all wars comprehensible as a whole.” —Simon Heffer, The Spectator “[A] great book on the Great War...Leonhard succeeds in being comprehensive without falling prey to the temptation of being encyclopedic. He writes fluently and judiciously.” —Adam Tooze, Die Zeit “Extremely readable, lucidly structured, focused, and dynamic...Leonhard’s analysis is enlivened by a sharp eye for concrete situations and an ear for the voices that best convey the meaning of change for the people and societies undergoing it.” —Christopher Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers

Author : Penelope Squibb
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409204602

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The Gates of Heaven by Penelope Squibb Pdf

The Gates of Heaven begins the day after war has been declared. With war fever raging, Giles Blakeney sets about forming the Vale of Eden Yeomanry. Daniel Bloom and his friends enlist in a Pals Battalion. Teddie and Clemmie begin nursing and Lady Mae turns Edenhall into a convalescent home. Will is in France looking for runaway, Sidonie. She does not wish to be found but finds salvation in an unusual way. Teddie loves Sigi but with anti-German feelings high, all must be hidden. Hugo is in France with the BEF, followed by the Blakeney boys and Daniel Bloom. The German cousins, Sigi and Hansie, already soldiers are in France too. Teddie and Clemmie go to France to nurse as battles take their toll. Sidonie's problems seem insoluble and, she alienates those who try to help her.The war ends and the survivors gather at Edenhall. Can Edenhall work its magic? Teddie wants only to turn the clock back to the summer of 1914 before the gates of heaven opened wide for the stream of humanity passing through.

Author : Frederick Palmer
Publisher : anboco
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783736416109

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My Year of the Great War by Frederick Palmer Pdf

In "The Last Shot," which appeared only a few months before the Great War began, drawing from my experience in many wars, I attempted to describe the character of a conflict between two great European land-powers, such as France and Germany. "You were wrong in some ways," a friend writes to me, "but in other ways it is almost as if you had written a play and they were following your script and stage business." Wrong as to the duration of the struggle and its bitterness; right about the part which artillery would play; right in suggesting the stalemate of intrenchments when vast masses of troops occupied the length of a frontier. Had the Germans not gone through Belgium and attacked on the shorter line of the Franco-German boundary, the parallel of fact with that of prediction would have been more complete. As for the ideal of "The Last Shot," we must await the outcome to see how far it shall be fulfilled by a lasting peace. Then my friend asks, "How does it make you feel?" Not as a prophet; only as an eager observer, who finds that imagination pales beside reality. If sometimes an incident seemed a page out of my novel, I was reminded how much better I might have done that page from life; and from life I am writing now. I have seen too much of the war and yet not enough to assume the pose of a military expert; which is easy when seated in a chair at home before maps and news despatches, but becomes fantastic after one has livedvi at the front. One waits on more information before he forms conclusions about campaigns. He is certain only that the Marne was a decisive battle for civilisation; that if England had not gone into the war the Germanic Powers would have won in three months. No words can exaggerate the heroism and sacrifice of the French or the importance of the part which the British have played, which we shall not realise till the war is over.