Author: Sarah MacnaughtanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
My War Experiences in Two Continents
Author: Sarah MacnaughtanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
My War Experiences in Two Continents
Author: Sarah MacnaughtanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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My War Experiences in Two Continents
Author: S. MacnaughtanPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
'My War Experiences in Two Continents' is an autobiography written by Sarah Broom Macnaughtan. With the outbreak of the First World War, she volunteered with the Red Cross Society. In September 1914, she traveled to Antwerp, Belgium, as part of an ambulance unit. After the evacuation of the city, she gave assistance in northern France, opening a soup kitchen in Adinkerke. For her work under fire in Belgium, she received the Order of Leopold. Later in the war, she moved to Russia, planning to provide medical assistance. She moved on to Yerevan, Armenia, where there was a refugee crisis after the Armenian genocide.
My War Experiences in Two Continents
Author: S. MacnaughtanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781475055337
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
My War Experiences in Two Continents
Savage Continent
Author: Keith LowePublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250015049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years... The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the twentieth century's most iconic moments. It is fondly remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, danced, drank and made love until the small hours. These images of victory and celebration are so strong in our minds that the period of anarchy and civil war that followed has been forgotten. Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than thirty million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport, local and national government - were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates were soaring, economies collapsing, and the European population was hovering on the brink of starvation. In Savage Continent, Keith Lowe describes a continent still racked by violence, where large sections of the population had yet to accept that the war was over. Individuals, communities and sometimes whole nations sought vengeance for the wrongs that had been done to them during the war. Germans and collaborators everywhere were rounded up, tormented and summarily executed. Concentration camps were reopened and filled with new victims who were tortured and starved. Violent anti-Semitism was reborn, sparking murders and new pogroms across Europe. Massacres were an integral part of the chaos and in some places – particularly Greece, Yugoslavia and Poland, as well as parts of Italy and France – they led to brutal civil wars. In some of the greatest acts of ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen, tens of millions were expelled from their ancestral homelands, often with the implicit blessing of the Allied authorities. Savage Continent is the story of post WWII Europe, in all its ugly detail, from the end of the war right up until the establishment of an uneasy stability across Europe towards the end of the 1940s. Based principally on primary sources from a dozen countries, Savage Continent is a frightening and thrilling chronicle of a world gone mad, the standard history of post WWII Europe for years to come.
From the Frontline
Author: Richard EvansPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752497278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Sir Basil Clarke was a courageous and intrepid First World War newspaper correspondent. In late 1914 he defied a ban on reporters by living as an ‘outlaw’ in Dunkirk and by the time he was forced to leave was one of only two remaining journalists near the Front. Later in the war he reported from the Battle of the Somme and caused a global scandal by accusing the government of effectively ‘feeding the Germans’ by failing to properly enforce its naval blockade. Closer to home, he was the first to publish reports from the Easter Rising.Clarke became the UK’s first public relations officer in 1917 and established the first PR firm in 1924. His public relations career included leading British propaganda during the Irish War of Independence, and his official response to Bloody Sunday in 1920 is still controversial today.In this, the first biography of Clarke, Richard Evans expertly portrays the life and character of this extraordinary man - a man who risked his life so that the public had independent news from the war and who became the father of the UK’s public relations industry.
Female Tommies
Author: Elisabeth ShiptonPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750957484
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This book tells the story of women in the First World War at the front line, under fire, and in combat. Through their diaries, letters and memoirs, meet the women who defied convention and followed their convictions to defend the less fortunate and fight for their country. Follow British Flora Sandes as she joins the Serbian Army and takes up a place in the rear-guard of the Iron Regiment as they retreat from the Bulgarian advance. Stow away with Dorothy Lawrence as she smuggles herself to Paris, steals a uniform and heads to the Front. Enlist in Russia’s all-female ‘Battalion of Death’ alongside peasant women and princesses alike.Through the letters, diaries and memoirs of women who were members of organisations such as the US Army Signal Corps, the Canadian Army Medical Corps, the FANY, WRAF, WRNS, WAAC and many others, we learn what life was like for them on the front and discover the courage of the women who took up arms.
The Nation
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2212
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: Eleanor E. HawkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
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