Author: Jean-Pierre Guéno
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782702859322
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 176

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Author: Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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The common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off an explosion of passion that would rip the continent apart. But in a crucial reexamination of the outbreak of violence, Michael S. Neiberg shows that ordinary Europeans, unlike their political and military leaders, neither wanted nor expected war during the fateful summer of 1914. By training his eye on the ways that people outside the halls of power reacted to the rapid onset and escalation of the fighting, Neiberg dispels the notion that Europeans were rabid nationalists intent on mass slaughter. He reveals instead a complex set of allegiances that cut across national boundaries. Neiberg marshals letters, diaries, and memoirs of ordinary citizens across Europe to show that the onset of war was experienced as a sudden, unexpected event. As they watched a minor diplomatic crisis erupt into a continental bloodbath, they expressed shock, revulsion, and fear. But when bargains between belligerent governments began to crumble under the weight of conflict, public disillusionment soon followed. Yet it was only after the fighting acquired its own horrible momentum that national hatreds emerged under the pressure of mutually escalating threats, wartime atrocities, and intense government propaganda. Dance of the Furies gives voice to a generation who found themselves compelled to participate in a ghastly, protracted orgy of violence they never imagined would come to pass.

Author: Holger H. Herwig
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812978293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents, Holger H. Herwig re-creates the dramatic battle and reinterprets Germany’s aggressive “Schlieffen Plan” as a carefully crafted design to avoid a protracted war against superior coalitions. He paints a fresh portrait of the run-up to the Marne and puts in dazzling relief the Battle of the Marne itself: the French resolve to win, and the crucial lack of coordination between Germany’s First and Second Armies. Herwig also provides stunning cameos of all the important players, from Germany’s Chief of General Staff Helmuth von Moltke to his rival, France’s Joseph Joffre. Revelatory and riveting, this is the source on this seminal event.

Author: Jean-Pierre Guéno
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages :

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Author: The Vimy Foundation
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459740807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Iconic photos from the First World War, newly colourized. See seminal images of Canada’s First World War experience in a new light — offered in full colour for the first time — with contributions from Margaret Atwood, Tim, Cook, Charlotte Gray, Paul Gross, Peter Mansbridge, and many others. Canadians today see the First World War largely through black and white photography. Colourizing these images brings a new focus to our understanding and appreciation of the role Canada played during the First World War. It makes the soldier in the muddy trench, the nurse in the field hospital, and those who waited for them at home come to life. Immediately, their expressions, mannerisms, and feelings are familiar. They become real. They Fought in Colour is a new look at Canada’s experience during the Great War. A more accessible look. A more contemporary look.

Author:
Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2954047011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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Author: Susan Weiner
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801865398
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Weiner highlights the new importance of youth as a social category of identity in the context of the postwar explosion of the mass media and explores the ways in which girls both defined and disrupted this category.

Author: Jean-Pierre Guéno
Publisher: Soleil Productions
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 92

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Quand éclate la première guerre mondiale, il y a 4 millions de poilus dans les tranchées et 4 millions et demi d'enfants sur les bancs des écoles primaires de la république. La plupart des soldats de 14-18 ont entre 1 et 23 ans ; ils ne sont pas sortis de l'école depuis si longtemps. Beaucoup parmi eux n'auront jamais la chance d'écrire à d'autres femmes qu'à leur mère. Pour les autres, ceux qui ont 30 ou 40 ans, la guerre est d'autant plus cruelle qu'elle les sépare de leurs femmes et de leurs enfants, que certains n'ont même pas vu naître. De leur côté. les enfants dessinent et griffonnent. Ils s'appliquent sans doute. en tirant la langue. à moins que leurs mères ne leur tiennent la main. Ils déposent leur écriture maladroite à la plume Sergent-major sur des cartes. dans des lettres, dans des cahiers d'écoliers transformés en journaux intimes. Lorsqu'ils écrivent à leurs enfants. les paroles de Poilus sont des paroles de paix, des paroles d'amour. des paroles d'humanité. qui, malheureusement. n'empêcheront pas le bégaiement de l'Histoire...

Author: Marco Mondini
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military history
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Lucille Cairns
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351194011
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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"How have French Jewish women reacted to the great traumas of the last century - the Holocaust, North African decolonization and the resulting migration of African Jews to France, the Arab-Israeli crisis and the aftermath of 9/11? Cairns's major new volume identifies the themes of books by French Jewish women from 1945 to the present day, gauging to what extent they are dominated by, informed by, or relatively indifferent to these threatening events. Thirty authors in particular serve as representatives of a great, and greatly diverse, pool: divided not only as Ashkenazim or Sephardim, but by origins scattered across Algeria, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Russia, Tunisia, and Turkey. Theirs is a transnational, doubly-diasporic, and thus particularly complex paradigm in which feminism, loyalty to family culture and to the traditions of Judaism often exists in tension with French Republican models of assimilation, non-differentiation, and gender-blindness. Lucille Cairns is Professor of French Literature at the University of Durham."