War, combat and military adventure fiction

This book is about women in World Wars I & II - women working in factories and on farms, or toiling perilously in field stations just behind the front lines, in inhospitable hospitals and convalescent homes.

For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas.

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Literature has long sought to make sense of the destruction and aggression wrought by human civilization.

Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in 1970.

Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in 1970.

With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle.

This volume covers a fascinating period in the history of the German army, a time in which machine guns, airplanes, and weapons of mass destruction were first developed and used.

Good Americans examines the participation of Italian and Jewish Americans, both on the home front and overseas, in the First World War.

At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause.

After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event.

This early work by George A.

"e;It is the plain matter-of-fact story of Belgian life under German rule.

America's struggle against Nazism is one of the few aspects of World War II that has escaped controversy.

Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World War I led to a significant increase in power for the federal government.

October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history.

At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause.

The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history.

The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books.

Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World War I led to a significant increase in power for the federal government.

Ernest Hemingway, F.

A man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M.

A man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M.

From the late imperial period until 1922, the British and French made private and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe.

From the late imperial period until 1922, the British and French made private and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe.

The dramatic opening weeks of the Great War passed into legend long before the conflict ended.

The dramatic opening weeks of the Great War passed into legend long before the conflict ended.

For years, those who attempted to understand the devastation of World War I looked to the collections of diplomatic documents, the stirring speeches, and the partisan memoirs of the leading participants.

For years, those who attempted to understand the devastation of World War I looked to the collections of diplomatic documents, the stirring speeches, and the partisan memoirs of the leading participants.

At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake.

At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake.

Ernest Hemingway, F.

Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions, Challenge and Transformation has been approved by AQA and matched to the new 2015 specification.

In The Lion's Pride, Edward J.

An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade.

An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade.

After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event.

The unprecedented magnitude of death during World War I forever altered how people perceived their world and how they represented those perceptions.

America's struggle against Nazism is one of the few aspects of World War II that has escaped controversy.

The Avant-Garde in Interwar England addresses modernism's ties to tradition, commerce, nationalism, and spirituality through an analysis of the assimilation of visual modernism in England between 1910 and 1939.

This volume covers a fascinating period in the history of the German army, a time in which machine guns, airplanes, and weapons of mass destruction were first developed and used.

This book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of World War I.

Good Americans examines the participation of Italian and Jewish Americans, both on the home front and overseas, in the First World War.

Britain's Levantine Empire, 1914-1923 explains the rise and decline and nature and extent of British military rule in the urban eastern Mediterranean during the course of the First World War and its aftermath.

The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany.

The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany.

Looking at texts written throughout the careers of Edith Wharton, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden, Thomas Boyd, F.

Looking at texts written throughout the careers of Edith Wharton, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden, Thomas Boyd, F.

During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan.

During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan.