"e;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.
Market Garden was a bold plan, designed to capture the Rhine crossings along the Dutch German border and establish a foothold for an advance into Germany.
Reunimos en un único pack dos grandes libros de reporterismo de guerra: "En las trincheras", con las mejores crónicas de la Primera Guerra Mundial del magistral Agustí Calvet, más conocido por su seudónimo de Gaziel, y "La revancha del reportero", el primer libro del actual corresponsal de guerra de La Vanguardia, Plàcid Garcia-Planas, que ha recorrido todo el Oriente Próximo viajando en varias ocasiones al infierno de Afganistán.
A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign explores the single largest and bloodiest battle in American military history, including its many controversies, in historiographical essays that reflect the current state of the field.
Bis 1918 waren die Soldaten wie auch die Bevölkerung des Deutschen Kaiserreichs noch überzeugt, dass ihr Sieg im Ersten Weltkrieg unmittelbar bevorstehe.
Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century Britain, and one of its sharpest critics.
Captures the war's human toll and explores its social consequences The Battle-Ground, Ellen Glasgow's fourth novel, was her first bestseller, with more than 21,000 copies sold in just two weeks.
Peter Liddle was a pioneer in the recording of memories of personal experience in the First World War and in the social background of those who lived through those years.
In April 1917, Congress approved President Woodrow Wilson's request to declare war on the Central Powers, thrusting the United States into World War I with the rallying cry, "e;The world must be made safe for democracy.
Anhand von 44 EINZELSCHICKSALEN erzählen Michael Forcher und Bernhard Mertelseder sowie eine Reihe von Co-Autorinnen und Co-Autoren, WIE TIROLERINNEN UND TIROLER DIE KRIEGSJAHRE 1914 BIS 1918 UND DIE ZEIT DANACH ERLEBTEN.
This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict.
During an era of separate spheres for men and women, Margaret Macdonald used her nurse's training to gain access to the military and a life of work, travel, and adventure.
At the height of the Troubles, a young American Special Forces soldier must find and stop his vengeful former comrade-in-arms before he carries out a devastating terrorist strike for the IRA.
[A] gripping mix of stories and poems interwoven with moments of quiet, affecting beauty This remarkable work rescues an important 20th-century Israeli voice from obscurity.
As World War II rages abroad, a group of women forge the bonds of sisterhood in AmericaIn 1938, while tensions in Europe are reaching a boiling point, four young women with big ambitions enter secretarial school in San Francisco.
The Life of Gregory Zilboorg, 1890-1940: Psyche, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis is the first volume of a meticulously researched two-part biography of the Russian-American psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg and chronicles the period from his birth as a Jew in Tsarist Russia to his prominence as a New York psychoanalyst on the eve of the Second World War.
Now that the last veterans are gone, the First World War is now a completely historical subject—governed by archaeology and genealogy, battlefield tourism and military history.