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A military history of the Western World: v. 3, From the American Civil War to the end of World War II
Par J. F. Fuller, J. F. C Fuller. 1987
Fuller's history of war continues as he outlines the age of industrialism, the American Civil War, expansionist policies of Japan…
and Russia, and the two world wars. Sequel to A Military History of the Western World: Volume 2, From the Defeat of the Spanish Armada to the Battle of Waterloo (DB 32067). 1956Russia: Revolution and civil war, 1917-1921
Par Antony Beevor. 2022
“Riveting . . . There is a wealth of new information here that adds considerable texture and nuance to his…
story and helps to set Russia apart from previous works.” —The Wall Street Journal. An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of the twentieth century. Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. The doomed White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky’s Red Army and the single-minded Communist dictatorship under Lenin. In the savage civil war that followed, terror begat terror, which in turn led to ever greater cruelty with man’s inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while contingents from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the doctor in an improvised hospital.Battle of the Atlantic: Gauntlet to victory
Par Ted Barris. 2022
The Battle of the Atlantic, Canada's longest continuous military engagement of the Second World War, lasted 2,074 days, claiming the…
lives of more than 4,000 men and women in the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian merchant navy. The years 2019 to 2025 mark the eightieth anniversary of the longest battle of the Second World War, the Battle of the Atlantic. It also proved to be the war's most critical and dramatic battle of attrition. For five and a half years, German surface warships and submarines attempted to destroy Allied trans-Atlantic convoys, most of which were escorted by Royal Canadian destroyers and corvettes, as well as aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Throwing deadly U-boat "wolf packs" in the paths of the convoys, the German Kriegsmarine almost succeeded in cutting off this vital lifeline to a beleaguered Great Britain. In 1939, the Royal Canadian Navy went to war with exactly thirteen warships and about 3,500 regular servicemen and reservists. During the desperate days and nights of the Battle of the Atlantic, the RCN grew to 400 fighting ships and over 100,000 men and women in uniform. By V-E Day in 1945, it had become the fourth largest navy in the world. The story of Canada's naval awakening from the dark, bloody winters of 1939–1942, to be "ready, aye, ready" to challenge the U-boats and drive them to defeat, is a Canadian wartime saga for the ages. While Canadians think of the Great War battle of Vimy Ridge as the country's coming of age, it was the Battle of the Atlantic that proved Canada's gauntlet to victory and a nation-building milestone. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.Lest we forget: World War I and New Mexico
Par David V Holtby, David V. Holtby. 2018
More than 14,000 New Mexicans served in uniform during World War I, and thousands more contributed to the American home…
front. The first detailed study to describe New Mexico's wartime mobilization, its soldiers' combat experiences, and its veterans' postwar lives, the book offers a poignant account of the profound change these Americans underwent both during and after the war. AdultA brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a…
narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine gun shelling, incredible artillery power, flame throwers, and gas attacks. Within the first four months of the war, the British Army recorded the nervous collapse of ten percent of its officers; the loss of such manpower to mental illness – not to mention death and physical wounds – left the army unable to fill its ranks. Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen was twenty-four years old when he was admitted to the newly established Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatment of shell shock. A bourgeoning poet, trying to make sense of the terror he had witnessed, he read a collection of poems from a fellow officer, Siegfried Sassoon, and was impressed by his portrayal of the soldier’s plight. One month later, Sassoon himself arrived at Craiglockhart, having refused to return to the front after being wounded during battle. Though Owen and Sassoon differed in age, class, education, and interests, both were outsiders – as soldiers unfit to fight, as gay men in a homophobic country, and as Britons unwilling to support a war likely to wipe out an entire generation of young men. But more than anything else, they shared a love of the English language, and its highest expression of poetry. As their friendship evolved over their months as patients at Craiglockhart, each encouraged the other in their work, in their personal reckonings with the morality of war, as well as in their treatment. Therapy provided Owen, Sassoon, and fellow patients with insights that allowed them express themselves better, and for the 28 months that Craiglockhart was in operation, it notably incubated the era’s most significant developments in both psychiatry and poetry. Drawing on rich source materials, as well as Glass’s own deep understanding of trauma and war, Soldiers Don't Go Mad tells for the first time the story of the soldiers and doctors who struggled with the effects of industrial warfare on the human psyche. Writing beyond the battlefields, to the psychiatric couch of Craiglockhart but also the literary salons, halls of power, and country houses, Glass charts the experiences of Owen and Sassoon, and of their fellow soldier-poets, alongside the greater literary response to modern warfare. As he investigates the roots of what we now know as post-traumatic stress disorder, Glass brings historical bearing to how we must consider war’s ravaging effects on mental health, and the ways in which creative work helps us come to terms with even the darkest of timesThe western front: A history of the great war, 1914-1918
Par Nick Lloyd. 2021
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, 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. From the trenches where men as young as seventeen 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 encounterConquer we must: A military history of britain, 1914-1945
Par Robin Prior. 2023
A major new account of Britain's military strategy between 1914-1945, including the two world wars and everything between The First…
and Second World Wars were separated by a mere two decades, making the period 1914-1945 an unprecedentedly intense and violent era of history. But how did Britain develop its complex military strategy during these wars, and how were decisions made by those at the top? Robin Prior examines the influence politicians had on military operations, in the first history to assess both world wars together. Drawing uniquely on both military and political archives and previously unexamined sources Prior explores the fraught relationships between civilian and military leaders: from Lloyd George's remarkably interventionist stance on military tactics during the First World War to Churchill's near-constant arguments with American leaders during the Second. Conquer We Must tells the complex story of this military decision-making, revealing how politicians attempted to control strategy-but had little influence on how the army, navy, and air force actually foughtTheir promised land: my grandparents in love and war
Par Ian Buruma. 2016
Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger were German-Jewish immigrants living in England. Their grandson weaves the story of their marriage, using letters…
written between the two as they faced separation, anti-Semitism, and the difficulties of war. Depicts how their marriage remained strong throughout it all. Some violence. 2016Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
Par Michael Palin. 2023
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier—his great-uncle Harry.Some years ago a…
stash of family records was handed down to Michael Palin, among which were photos of an enigmatic young man in army uniform, as well as photos of the same young man as a teenager looking uncomfortable at family gatherings. This, Michael learned, was his Great-Uncle Harry, born in 1884, died in 1916. He had previously had no idea that he had a Great-Uncle Harry, much less that his life was cut short at the age of 32 when he was killed in the Battle of the Somme. The discovery both shocked him and made him want to know much more.The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could. He studied every relevant official document. He tracked down what remained of his great-uncle Harry's diaries and letters, and pored over photographs of First World War battle scenes to see whether Harry appeared in any of them. He walked the route Harry took on that fatal, final day of his life amid the mud of northern France. And as he did so, a life that had previously existed in the shadows was revealed to him.Great-Uncle Harry is an utterly compelling account of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life. A blend of biography, history, travelogue and personal memoir, this is Michael Palin at his very finest.Goshawk Squadron
Par Derek Robinson. 2005
1918. Twenty-three-year-old Stanley Woolley, the disillusioned commander of a British flight squadron on the Western Front during World War I,…
trains his younger, inexperienced pilots to fly biplanes in combat--knowing they will all soon be dead. Some violence and some strong language. 1971Versailles 1919: chronique d'une fausse paix (Production Jeannine Balland)
Par Patrick De Gmeline. 2009
« 12 novembre 1918 : au lendemain même de l'armistice de Rethondes, les troupes françaises, britanniques et américaines rentrent victorieusement…
en Alsace-Lorraine. La conférence de la paix s'ouvre solennellement à Paris le 18 janvier 1919. Elle s'achèvera le 28 juin par la signature du traité dans la galerie des Glaces du château de Versailles, devant tous les représentants des puissances alliées. Pour la première fois, cet événement politique, diplomatique et militaire majeur du xxe siècle, qui a modelé le visage de l'Europe jusqu'à notre époque, est abordé sous l'angle de la chronique quotidienne. Ce livre met en scène les acteurs politiques et militaires de l'époque, les premiers rôles comme les seconds, qu'ils soient français, britanniques, américains, italiens ou allemands, mais aussi ceux représentant les puissances associées ". Il aborde simultanément les événements qui se déroulent au même moment dans les différents pays où se joue alors l'avenir immédiat de l'Europe, événements qui étaient le plus souvent connus avec un décalage dans le temps expliquant bien des décisions, bien des ignorances et des incompréhensions aussi ! Cette approche met en évidence les difficultés extrêmes de la négociation et les oppositions violentes, voire les affrontements, des Quatre Grands pour tenter de régler la paix du monde [...]. » -- 4e de couvThe First World War: an illustrated history (Penguin Bks.)
Par A. J. P Taylor. 1981
Oxford historian's year-by-year chronicle of World War I, which began with the assassination of Hapsburg archduke Franz Ferdinand and his…
wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, in Bosnia. Describes battles and behind-the-scenes politics, the use of poison gas and U-boats, and America's entry into the conflict. 1963'' Paris, gare de l'Est, en ce dimanche 2 août 1914, c'est la mobilisation générale. Il y a bientôt cent…
ans, le samedi 1er août, l'Allemagne a déclaré la guerre à la Russie, l'alliée de la France. L'Empire austro-hongrois est, dès le 28 juillet, entré en guerre contre la Serbie. L'engrenage des alliances, des ultimatums, des mobilisations, entraîne les nations dans sa mécanique sanglante. Berlin est solidaire de Vienne. Paris, lié à Londres, soutient Saint-Pétersbourg. En quelques heures, toutes les grandes gares européennes ressemblent à la gare de l'Est. Tous ces hommes qui partent, innocents, inconscients, n'imaginent pas que des centaines de milliers d'entre eux vont mourir ou être blessés avant que l'année 1914 se termine, et que cette guerre, qui devait être brève et locale, deviendra la Première Guerre mondiale. '' -- 4e de couvBiography of a German Jewish scientist whose discoveries embodied both the beneficial and the destructive capacities of science. Discusses the…
intellect of Fritz Haber (1868-1934), who moved confidently between laboratory, factory, and battlefield, who invented famine-preventing agricultural processes, and who developed poisonous gas later used in Nazi concentration camps. 20051914 ((Champs. Histoire #1108)
Par Luciano Canfora. 2014
" Et si l'on concevait la tâche de l'historien comme l'enquête d'un Sherlock Holmes ? Si la guerre pouvait être…
assimilée à un crime, les coupables se dissimulant, des alibis étant invoqués, des innocents désignés du doigt ? Dans cet ouvrage - ni livre édifiant ni commémoration -, Luciano Canfora aborde la guerre non comme un monument, mais comme un événement vivant qu'il s'agirait de retourner dans tous les sens pour comprendre ce qui s'est vraiment passé . L'enquête menée au fil de ces pages - puisqu'il s'agit bien d'une enquête - se déroule en une vingtaine de courts chapitres, tirés de conférences à la radio publique italienne, à lire d'une traite comme autant de petites histoires. Les idées reçues - surtout celles qui ont cours dans les pays vainqueurs - ne survivent pas à l'examen. La fin ne nous livre pas un unique coupable, mais nous laisse vaccinés contre les reconstructions apologétiques. C'est le livre que doit lire qui veut se faire en quelques pages une idée de la multiplicité des causes et des conjonctures qui ont conduit à la Première Guerre mondiale. " -- 4e de couv" Après l'armistice du 11 novembre 1918, cinq terribles années de guerres se clôturent enfin, cinq années qui ont vu…
l'apparition des armes chimiques, la généralisation des bombardements, l'enlisement des armées. Et qui ont fait dix millions de morts... Depuis août 1914, que le chemin fut long pour entrevoir cette paix ! Alors que la guerre semblait sans issue, que politiques et généraux se disputaient pouvoir et décisions, un homme avait foi en la vaillance des soldats, au nom d'une certaine France, au nom de la République. Cet homme, c'était Clemenceau. Mais si le traité de Versailles de 1919 a ouvert sur un monde nouveau, les frustrations et les vengeances trouveront un terreau qui nourrira le XXe siècle. Les espoirs déçus des anciens combattants, les vies brisées feront le lit des fascismes, les sociétés déstabilisées, les frontières contestées, les empires désagrégés seront la proie d'une crise sans précédent. La Deuxième Guerre Mondiale succédera à la "der des der". " -- 4e de couvAce of aces: the life of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
Par H. Paul Jeffers. 2003
A biography of captain Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973), the much decorated "Ace of Aces" who destroyed twenty-six enemy planes in World…
War I. Fascinated with engines and speed, he began his career as a race-car driver, becoming third-ranked in the country. He later founded Eastern Airlines. 2003By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families
Par R. H. Thomson. 2023
From one of Canada’s most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape…
us and the reach that the past can have across generations.Growing up north of Toronto, R.H. Thomson’s imagination was captured by romantic notions of war. He spent his days playing with toy soldiers on the carpet of his grandmother’s house, recreating the Battle of Britain with model planes in his bedroom, or sitting at the local theatre watching World War II B movies—ones that offered a very clear perspective on who were the heroes and who the villains; which side were the victors and which the vanquished. Yet Thomson’s childhood was also shaped by the spirits of real-life warriors in his family, their fates a brutal and more complicated reminder of the true human cost of war. Eight of Robert’s great uncles—George, Joe, Jack, Harold, Arthur, Warren, Wildy, and Fred—fought in the First World War, while his great Aunt Margaret served as a wartime surgical nurse in Europe. Five of the great uncles—George, Joe, Fred, Wildy, and Warren—were killed in battle while two others—Jack and Harold—would return home greatly diminished, spending the rest of their lives in and out of sanitariums, their lungs scarred by disease and poison gas. Throughout their lives, the great uncles, as well as great aunts and cousins, were faithful letter writers, their correspondence offering profound insights into their experiences on the front lines to their loved ones back home, a somber record of the sacrifice the family paid. In By the Ghost Light, R.H. Thomson offers an extraordinary look at his family’s history while providing a powerful examination of how we understand war and its aftermath. Using his family letters as a starting point, Thomson roams through a century of folly, touching on areas of military history, art, literature, and science, to express the tragic human cost of war behind the order and calm of ceremonial parades, memorials, and monuments. In an urgent call for new ways to acknowledge the dead, R.H. has created "The World Remembers," an ambitious international project to individually name each of the millions killed in the First World War. Epic in its scope and incredibly intimate in its exploration of lives touched by the tragedy of war, By the Ghost Light is a truly original book that will challenge the way we approach our history.Le dernier été de l'Europe: qui a déclenché la Première Guerre mondiale?
Par David Fromkin. 2004
L'affaire des origines de la Première Guerre mondiale semble depuis longtemps entendue : conflit entre puissances impérialistes occidentales, qui rivalisent…
pour le partage du monde, précipité par une suite d'événements où le hasard et les passions nationalistes ont leur part. Le livre de David Fromkin, appuyé sur une exploitation minutieuse d'archives inédites, ruine cette thèse : il montre que tout, dans cette catastrophe, fut prémédité. La désinformation, la manipulation furent cyniquement mises au service d'objectifs de guerre délibérés. Seulement, ce n'était pas un, mais deux conflits qui se préparaient : les Autrichiens souhaitaient ramener la Serbie dans le giron de l'empire, tandis que l'Allemagne voulait la guerre avec la Russie et la France. Rivaux mais alliés, les deux empires ont cru pouvoir faire converger leurs efforts et mener chacun leur propre guerre. Aussi déclenchèrent-ils l'apocalypse qui devait inaugurer un nouveau siècle. Écrit d'une plume alerte, cet ouvrage d'un historien reconnu se lit comme un véritable roman qui tient le lecteur en haleine du début à la fin. -- 4e de couvMourir à Verdun (Oeuvres de Julien Green)
Par Pierre Miquel. 1995
"Pierre Miquel, auteur de La Grande Guerre et d'une Histoire de France, a recherché dans les archives de l'armée et…
dans les témoignages des combattants la vérité sur l'holocauste de Verdun. Les cinq cent mille victimes franco-allemandes de la bataille ont transformé ce coin de France de vingt kilomètres carrés en charnier monstrueux, en haut lieu de la guerre civile européenne, la première de l'ère industrielle."