Author: George Frederick Stone
Publisher: Bristol : [s.n.]
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Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Bristol and the Great War, 1914-1919
Author: George Frederick Stone
Publisher: Bristol : [s.n.]
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Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Publisher: Bristol : [s.n.]
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Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Bristol and the great war, 1914-1919, edited by g.f. stone
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Bristol and the Great War, 1914-19
Author: G. F. Stone
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Bristol and the Great War 1914-1918
Author: Charles Wells
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Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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Languages : en
Pages : 399
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A World Undone
Author: G. J. Meyer
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553382403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world “Thundering, magnificent . . . [A World Undone] is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. . . . It will earn generations of admirers.”—The Washington Times On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War: four long years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until 1914 had dominated the globe. Praise for A World Undone “Meyer’s sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire . . . are lifelike and plausible. His account of the tragic folly of Gallipoli is masterful. . . . [A World Undone] has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured”—Los Angeles Times “An original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century.”—Steve Gillon, resident historian, The History Channel
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553382403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world “Thundering, magnificent . . . [A World Undone] is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. . . . It will earn generations of admirers.”—The Washington Times On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War: four long years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until 1914 had dominated the globe. Praise for A World Undone “Meyer’s sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire . . . are lifelike and plausible. His account of the tragic folly of Gallipoli is masterful. . . . [A World Undone] has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured”—Los Angeles Times “An original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century.”—Steve Gillon, resident historian, The History Channel
Bristol in the Great War
Author: Jacqueline Wadsworth
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ISBN: 9781783036356
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Bristol were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through.
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ISBN: 9781783036356
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Bristol were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through.
Enduring the Great War
Author: Alexander Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139867253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay natural human resilience. Drawing widely on contemporary letters and diaries of British and German soldiers, psychiatric reports and official documentation, and interpreting these sources with modern psychological research, this unique account provides fresh insights into the soldiers' fears, motivations and coping mechanisms. It explains why the British outlasted their opponents by examining and comparing the motives for fighting, the effectiveness with which armies and societies supported men and the combatants' morale throughout the conflict on both sides. Finally it challenges the consensus on the war's end, arguing that not a 'covert strike' but rather an 'ordered surrender' led by junior officers brought about Germany's defeat in 1918.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139867253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay natural human resilience. Drawing widely on contemporary letters and diaries of British and German soldiers, psychiatric reports and official documentation, and interpreting these sources with modern psychological research, this unique account provides fresh insights into the soldiers' fears, motivations and coping mechanisms. It explains why the British outlasted their opponents by examining and comparing the motives for fighting, the effectiveness with which armies and societies supported men and the combatants' morale throughout the conflict on both sides. Finally it challenges the consensus on the war's end, arguing that not a 'covert strike' but rather an 'ordered surrender' led by junior officers brought about Germany's defeat in 1918.
Bravo, Bristol!
Author: Eugene Byrne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908326638
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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ISBN: 9781908326638
Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The Tides of War and the Port of Bristol, 1914-1918
Author: W. G. Neale
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Forgotten Front
Author: James Belsey
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Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : Bristol (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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