Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The famed creator of the "Sherlock Holmes' series of novels, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the author of the non-fiction novel "A Visit to Three Fronts". In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their battle lines and report his impressions. Doyle was chosen for the assignment. He obtained permission from the War Office to visit first the British lines before proceeding to visit the French front and then finally onto the Italian one. Thus he is able to give a clear picture of the three great Western allies as conditions were during the First World War.
Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print
Author: Jane Potter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199279869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Generously illustrated, Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print is a scholarly yet accessible illumination of a hitherto untapped resource of women's writing and makes an important new contribution to the study of the literature of the Great War."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199279869
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Generously illustrated, Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print is a scholarly yet accessible illumination of a hitherto untapped resource of women's writing and makes an important new contribution to the study of the literature of the Great War."--BOOK JACKET.
Women and War [2 volumes]
Author: Bernard A. Cook
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851097759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
In this unique encyclopedia, 120 leading scholars from around the world provide comprehensive treatment of the role of women in war, from the first written history to the present. This authoritative encyclopedia presents the work of leading scholars from all over the world to give the first detailed coverage of the role of women in wars throughout history. Histories of war are typically histories of men: great leaders and heroic fighters. Yet the roles of women often receive only limited coverage. Except for such notables as Joan of Arc, traditional histories give short shrift to women as leaders and fighters. Similarly, the direct victimization—particularly sexual abuse as a weapon of terror and domination—and cultural dislocations women suffer in war float as background, without detailed coverage. This work represents a first, devoted in its entirety to thorough examination of all aspects of women in war. For the first time, readers have a single source for information on the scope of women's role in war, and war's effects on them.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1851097759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
In this unique encyclopedia, 120 leading scholars from around the world provide comprehensive treatment of the role of women in war, from the first written history to the present. This authoritative encyclopedia presents the work of leading scholars from all over the world to give the first detailed coverage of the role of women in wars throughout history. Histories of war are typically histories of men: great leaders and heroic fighters. Yet the roles of women often receive only limited coverage. Except for such notables as Joan of Arc, traditional histories give short shrift to women as leaders and fighters. Similarly, the direct victimization—particularly sexual abuse as a weapon of terror and domination—and cultural dislocations women suffer in war float as background, without detailed coverage. This work represents a first, devoted in its entirety to thorough examination of all aspects of women in war. For the first time, readers have a single source for information on the scope of women's role in war, and war's effects on them.
Worcester Library Bulletin
Author: Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography
Author: Sharon Ouditt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134946023
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
'They also serve who only stand and wait' The idea of there being a 'women's writing' during the First World War is often dismissed. The war, the story goes, was a masculine domain, and as women did not fight, it is also assumed that they were excluded from a war experience. This bibliography challenges that view by listing and annotating hundreds of published books, articles, memoirs, diaries and letters written by women during the First World War. Included are: * Virginia Woolf * Katherine Mansfield * G.B Stern * Brenda Girvin * known and unknown autobiographers and diarists * writers of pro and anti-war propaganda * journal and magazine articles * literary, cultural and historical criticism
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134946023
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
'They also serve who only stand and wait' The idea of there being a 'women's writing' during the First World War is often dismissed. The war, the story goes, was a masculine domain, and as women did not fight, it is also assumed that they were excluded from a war experience. This bibliography challenges that view by listing and annotating hundreds of published books, articles, memoirs, diaries and letters written by women during the First World War. Included are: * Virginia Woolf * Katherine Mansfield * G.B Stern * Brenda Girvin * known and unknown autobiographers and diarists * writers of pro and anti-war propaganda * journal and magazine articles * literary, cultural and historical criticism
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Battles & Bivouacs
Author: Jacques Roujon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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Nurse Writers of the Great War
Author: Christine Hallett
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784996327
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The First World War was the first ‘total war’. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, exposure to extremes of temperature, emotional trauma and systemic disease. In an effort to alleviate this suffering, tens of thousands of women volunteered to serve as nurses. Of these, some were experienced professionals, while others had undergone only minimal training. But regardless of their preparation, they would all gain a unique understanding of the conditions of industrial warfare. Until recently their contributions, both to the saving of lives and to our understanding of warfare, have remained largely hidden from view. By combining biographical research with textual analysis, Nurse writers of the great war opens a window onto their insights into the nature of nursing and the impact of warfare.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784996327
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The First World War was the first ‘total war’. Its industrial weaponry damaged millions of men and drove whole armies underground into dangerously unhealthy trenches. Many were killed. Many more suffered terrible, life-threatening injuries: wound infections such as gas gangrene and tetanus, exposure to extremes of temperature, emotional trauma and systemic disease. In an effort to alleviate this suffering, tens of thousands of women volunteered to serve as nurses. Of these, some were experienced professionals, while others had undergone only minimal training. But regardless of their preparation, they would all gain a unique understanding of the conditions of industrial warfare. Until recently their contributions, both to the saving of lives and to our understanding of warfare, have remained largely hidden from view. By combining biographical research with textual analysis, Nurse writers of the great war opens a window onto their insights into the nature of nursing and the impact of warfare.
Quarterly List of New Books
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description