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Book The British National Bibliography

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The King s Pilgrimage

Download or read book The King s Pilgrimage written by Frank Fox and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Designing Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sabina Tanović
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-11-28
  • ISBN : 1108486525
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Designing Memory written by Sabina Tanović and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study of memorial architecture investigates how design can translate memories of human loss into tangible structures, creating spaces for remembering. Using approaches from history, psychology, anthropology and sociology, Sabina Tanović explores purposes behind creating contemporary memorials in a given location, their translation into architectural concepts, their materialisation in the face of social and political challenges, and their influence on the transmission of memory. Covering the period from the First World War to the present, she looks at memorials such as the Holocaust museums in Mechelen and Drancy, as well as memorials for the victims of terrorist attacks, to unravel the private and public role of memorial architecture and the possibilities of architecture as a form of agency in remembering and dealing with a difficult past. The result is a distinctive contribution to the literature on history and memory, and on architecture as a link to the past.

Book Killing Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas J Saunders
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2011-11-08
  • ISBN : 0752476181
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Killing Time written by Nicholas J Saunders and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War of 1914-1918 now stands at the furthest edge of living memory. And yet, hardly a month passes without some dramatic and sometimes tragic discovery being made along the old killing fields of the Western Front. Graves of British soldiers buried during battle – still lying in rows seemingly arm in arm or found crouching at the entrance to a dugout; whole 'underground cities' of trenches, dugouts and shelters have been preserved in the mud; field hospitals carved out of the chalk country of the Somme marked with graffiti; unexploded bombs and gas canisters – all of these are the poignant and sometimes deadly legacies of a war we can never forget. Killing Time digs beneath the surface of war to uncover the living reality left behind. Nicholas J. Saunders brings together a wealth of discoveries to offer fresh insights into the human and often barbaric aspect of warfare. He uses discoveries in the trenches, family photographs, diaries and souvenirs to give the dead a voice. You cannot fail to be fascinated and moved by what he unearths.

Book Postcards from the Trenches

Download or read book Postcards from the Trenches written by Allyson Booth and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She links, for example, the modernist representation of an unstable self to soldiers' familiarity with corpses, the modernist mistrust for fact to the competing nationalist discourses of August 1914, and the modernist description of buildings as having shaken off the past to a desire to forget the war. Booth argues that the dislocations of war often figure centrally in modernist forms even when the war itself seems peripheral to modernist content.

Book Passchendaele

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Lloyd
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2017-05-23
  • ISBN : 0465094783
  • Pages : 515 pages

Download or read book Passchendaele written by Nick Lloyd and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of Passchendaele, the months-long battle that epitomizes the immense tragedy of the First World War Passchendaele. The name of a small, seemingly insignificant Flemish village echoes across the twentieth century as the ultimate expression of meaningless, industrialized slaughter. In the summer of 1917, upwards of 500,000 men were killed or wounded, maimed, gassed, drowned, or buried in this small corner of Belgium. On the centennial of the battle, military historian Nick Lloyd brings to vivid life this epic encounter along the Western Front. Drawing on both British and German sources, he is the first historian to reveal the astonishing fact that, for the British, Passchendaele was an eminently winnable battle. Yet the advance of British troops was undermined by their own high command, which, blinded by hubris, clung to failed tactics. The result was a familiar one: stalemate. Lloyd forces us to consider that trench warfare was not necessarily a futile endeavor, and that had the British won at Passchendaele, they might have ended the war early, saving hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives. A captivating narrative of heroism and folly, Passchendaele is an essential addition to the literature on the Great War.

Book All the Bright Company of Heaven

Download or read book All the Bright Company of Heaven written by Renny Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forgotten story of the Cook family, Crawley and the Great War.

Book Clare and the Great War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joe Power
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2015-07-06
  • ISBN : 0750965568
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book Clare and the Great War written by Joe Power and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristocrats and itinerants, unionists and nationalists, Catholics and Protestants – the Great War united thousands of Clare men and women to a cause for which many of them would go out to fight and die. Their motives varied from a sense of duty to 'king and country' to concern about the fate of 'poor Catholic Belgium'; from mercenary motives, fuelled by poverty, to the moral duty to fight for civilization against the 'savage Huns'. Some followed 'Redmond's call' to secure Home Rule, while others enlisted for sheer adventure. The work attempts, for the first time, to understand what really happened in County Clare during the Great War, how its economic and political life was radically transformed during this terrible conflict, and how the contribution of those who gave their lives was largely written out of history.'

Book War and Victory

Download or read book War and Victory written by Emily P. Gill and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Graves of the Fallen

Download or read book The Graves of the Fallen written by Rudyard Kipling and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudyard Kipling wrote this account of the work of the Imperial War Graves Commission at the Commission's request. Originally an article was published in The Times in 1919 by Rudyard Kipling carrying the Commission's proposal to a broader audience and describing what the graves would look like. The article titled War Graves: Work of Imperial Commission: Mr. Kipling's Survey was quickly republished as an illustrated leaflet, Graves of the Fallen. It was planned to reduce the impact of Kenyon's report as it included illustrations of cemeteries with grown trees and shrubs, contrasting the bleak landscapes depicted in published battlefield photos. There was an instantaneous public uproar following the publication of the reports, specifically about the decision not to repatriate the bodies of the dead. The Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC) was the British institution that dealt with burying and honoring First World War dead and missing fighters. Today it is responsible for graveyards and memorials of both World Wars in more than 150 countries. Its name was changed to the 'Commonwealth War Graves Commission' in 1960.

Book Somewhere in France

Download or read book Somewhere in France written by William Thomas Duperouzel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lost Legions of Fromelles

Download or read book The Lost Legions of Fromelles written by Peter Barton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as a diversion from the Somme, Fromelles was was the worst-ever military disaster in Australian history, and is recognised as one of the bloodiest and most useless battles of the First World War. With the recent discovery of a mass grave and the disinterment of many diggers, it has now entered national consciousness in the same way as Gallipoli. In one night, British and Australian soldiers suffered casualties equivalent to the total toll of the Boer War, Korean War and Vietnam War combined. Barton's research has revealed that the Australian frontline troops gave away critical Allied secrets to the Germans... which not only led directly to the Fromelles slaughter - but also contributed to the failure of the Somme offensive as a whole. The Lost Legions of Fromelles is the most authoritative book on this staggering disaster, combining new scholarship on the battle with an account of recent events to dispel many myths in a rich and compelling history.

Book Kilkenny Families in the Great War

Download or read book Kilkenny Families in the Great War written by Niall Brannigan and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes appendices of Auxiliaries (non-combatant service volunteers) and Transients (non-natives who were stationed or hospitalized in Kilkenny).

Book Friendly Russia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Denis Norman Garstin
  • Publisher : London : T. F. Unwin
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Friendly Russia written by Denis Norman Garstin and published by London : T. F. Unwin. This book was released on 1915 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canterbury s Boys

Download or read book Canterbury s Boys written by Lesley Muir and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Critical Views

    Book Details:
  • Author : Teresa R. Stojkov
  • Publisher : Doreen B Townsend Center for the
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Critical Views written by Teresa R. Stojkov and published by Doreen B Townsend Center for the. This book was released on 2011 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the Townsend Papers in the Humanities commemorates the twenty-fifth year of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. As such, the volume is an attempt to capture the breadth and depth of lectures and events presented by the center. Many are revised versions of lectures and presentations organized in connection with the annual appointment of the Avenali Professor in the Humanities at Berkeley (generously funded by Joan and Peter Avenali), or Berkeley's Una's Lecturer (endowed in the memory of Una Smith Ross, Class of 1911); several are based on other events presented by the center over the years, such as the "Humanities Perspectives on Aging" program or the "Futures" lecture series organized to commemorate the center's tenth anniversary. All are the reflection of a public event before a live audience. We have chosen to retain references to the live event where they occur, though space limitations would not permit the inclusion of audience questions.