Author: Charles John StonePublisher:
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Category : Imaginary wars and battles
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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What Happened After the Battle of Dorking, Or, The Victory of Tunbridge Wells
Author: Charles John StonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
What Happened After the Battle of Dorking
Author: Charles John StonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
What Happened After the Battle of Dorking
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ISBN: 9781332830879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Excerpt from What Happened After the Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer, Being an Account of the Victory at Tunbridge Wells Ah! Those notches could tell a tale or two; they were good hard blows, such as I rather doubt whether the lazy, luxurious young men of the present day could deliver? Oh i grandpap'a, do tell us all about them - tell us the story of all the fighting. Surely you must have heard all about it. I believe I fight my battles over again, after dinner, till everybody is sick of the subject. But we are not sick of the subject, grandpapa. We don't dine with you every. Day, you know. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
What Happened After the Battle of Dorking
Author: Charles John StonePublisher:
ISBN: 9780649344208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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What Happened After the Battle of Dorking
Author: What Happened After the Battle of Dorking
Author: Charles John StonePublisher:
ISBN: 9781375410076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The First World War as a Clash of Cultures
Author: Frederick George Thomas BridghamPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1571133402
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Contains essays examining the perceived tensions between British and German cultural traditions and beliefs before 1914 and how popular literature, public debate, cultural distinction, and war-time propaganda determined historical, political, and military events leading to war.
British Images of Germany
Author: R. ScullyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137283467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
British Images of Germany is the first full-length cultural history of Britain's relationship with Germany in the key period leading up to the First World War. Richard Scully reassesses what is imagined to be a fraught relationship, illuminating the sense of kinship Britons felt for Germany even in times of diplomatic tension.
The Road to Armageddon
Author: Cecil D. EbyPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822307754
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Lost Generation has held the imagination of those who succeeded them, partly because the idea that modern war could be romantic, generous, and noble died with the casualties of that war. From this remove, it seems almost perverse that Britons, Germans, and Frenchmen of every social class eagerly rushed to the fields of Flanders and to misery and death. In The Road to Armageddon Cecil Eby shows how the widely admired writers of English popular fiction and poetry contributed, at least in England, to a romantic militarism coupled with xenophobia that helped create the climate that made World War I seem almost inevitable. Between the close of the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 and the opening guns of 1914, the works of such widely read and admired writers as H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, J. M. Barrie, and Rupert Brooke, as well as a host of now almost forgotten contemporaries, bombarded their avid readers with strident warnings of imminent invasions and prophecies of the collapse of civilization under barbarian onslaught and internal moral collapse. Eby seems these narratives as growing from and in turn fueling a collective neurosis in which dread of coming war coexisted with an almost loving infatuation with it. The author presents a vivid panorama of a militant mileau in which warfare on a scale hitherto unimaginable was largely coaxed into being by works of literary imagination. The role of covert propaganda, concealed in seemingly harmless literary texts, is memorably illustrated.
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