Author: Gerald Astor
Publisher: Presidio Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Eyewitness accounts of what American soldiers thought, felt, saw, heard, and tried to do in World War II.
The Greatest War
Author: Gerald Astor
Publisher: Presidio Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Eyewitness accounts of what American soldiers thought, felt, saw, heard, and tried to do in World War II.
Publisher: Presidio Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Eyewitness accounts of what American soldiers thought, felt, saw, heard, and tried to do in World War II.
History's Greatest War
Author: Samuel John Duncan-Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dummies (Bookselling)
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Great War
Author: Various
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763675547
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Combines evocative photographs and illustrations in a treasury of stories by 11 international writers that were inspired by artifacts connected to World War I. Illustrated by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist of A Monster Calls.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763675547
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Combines evocative photographs and illustrations in a treasury of stories by 11 international writers that were inspired by artifacts connected to World War I. Illustrated by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist of A Monster Calls.
The Great War
Author: Peter Hart
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199976279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by The Economist World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. -Total war- emerged as a grim, mature reality. In The Great War, Peter Hart provides a masterful combat history of this global conflict. Focusing on the decisive engagements, Hart explores the immense challenges faced by the commanders on all sides. He surveys the belligerent nations, analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, and strategic imperatives. Russia, for example, was obsessed with securing an exit from the Black Sea, while France--having lost to Prussia in 1871, before Germany united--constructed a network of defensive alliances, even as it held a grudge over the loss of Alsace-Lorraine. Hart offers deft portraits of the commanders, the prewar plans, and the unexpected obstacles and setbacks that upended the initial operations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199976279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by The Economist World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. -Total war- emerged as a grim, mature reality. In The Great War, Peter Hart provides a masterful combat history of this global conflict. Focusing on the decisive engagements, Hart explores the immense challenges faced by the commanders on all sides. He surveys the belligerent nations, analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, and strategic imperatives. Russia, for example, was obsessed with securing an exit from the Black Sea, while France--having lost to Prussia in 1871, before Germany united--constructed a network of defensive alliances, even as it held a grudge over the loss of Alsace-Lorraine. Hart offers deft portraits of the commanders, the prewar plans, and the unexpected obstacles and setbacks that upended the initial operations.
The Great War for New Zealand
Author: Vincent O'Malley
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
ISBN: 192727754X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
Spanning nearly two centuries from first contact through to settlement and apology, this major work focuses on the human impact of the war in the Waikato, its origins and aftermath.
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
ISBN: 192727754X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
Spanning nearly two centuries from first contact through to settlement and apology, this major work focuses on the human impact of the war in the Waikato, its origins and aftermath.
The Greatest War Stories Ever Told
Author: Lamar Underwood
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781592285600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
From soldier to journalist, twenty-four epic tales of war from those who know it best.
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781592285600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
From soldier to journalist, twenty-four epic tales of war from those who know it best.
The Great War in America
Author: Garrett Peck
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681779447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Great War’s bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American history. This timely book is a reexamination of America’s first global experience as we commemorate WWI's centennial. The U.S. steered clear of the Great War for more than two years, but President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly led the divided country into the conflict with the goal of making the world “safe for democracy.” The country assumed a global role for the first time and attempted to build the foundations for world peace, only to witness the experience go badly awry and it retreated into isolationism.The Great War was the first continent-wide conflagration in a century, and it drew much of the world into its fire. By the end, four empires and their royal houses had fallen, communism was unleashed, the map of the Middle East was redrawn, and the United States emerged as a global power—only to withdraw from the world’s stage.The United States was disillusioned with what it achieved in the earlier war and withdrew into itself. Americans have tried to forget about it ever since. The Great War in America presents an opportunity to reexamine the country’s role on the global stage and the tremendous political and social changes that overtook the nation because of the war.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681779447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Great War’s bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American history. This timely book is a reexamination of America’s first global experience as we commemorate WWI's centennial. The U.S. steered clear of the Great War for more than two years, but President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly led the divided country into the conflict with the goal of making the world “safe for democracy.” The country assumed a global role for the first time and attempted to build the foundations for world peace, only to witness the experience go badly awry and it retreated into isolationism.The Great War was the first continent-wide conflagration in a century, and it drew much of the world into its fire. By the end, four empires and their royal houses had fallen, communism was unleashed, the map of the Middle East was redrawn, and the United States emerged as a global power—only to withdraw from the world’s stage.The United States was disillusioned with what it achieved in the earlier war and withdrew into itself. Americans have tried to forget about it ever since. The Great War in America presents an opportunity to reexamine the country’s role on the global stage and the tremendous political and social changes that overtook the nation because of the war.
Fighting the Great War
Author: Michael S. NEIBERG
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Michael Neiberg offers a concise history based on the latest research and insights into the soldiers, commanders, battles, and legacies of the Great War.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Michael Neiberg offers a concise history based on the latest research and insights into the soldiers, commanders, battles, and legacies of the Great War.
America in the Great War
Author: Ronald Schaffer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195049047
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Contains excerpts from 3 key legislative acts.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195049047
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Contains excerpts from 3 key legislative acts.
Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America
Author: Jennifer D. Keene
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801874468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectively against a highly trained enemy, and then somehow reward these troops for their service? In Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, Jennifer D. Keene argues that the doughboy experience in 1917–18 forged the U.S. Army of the twentieth century and ultimately led to the most sweeping piece of social-welfare legislation in the nation's history—the G.I. Bill. Keene shows how citizen-soldiers established standards of discipline that the army in a sense had to adopt. Even after these troops had returned to civilian life, lessons learned by the army during its first experience with a mass conscripted force continued to influence the military as an institution. The experience of going into uniform and fighting abroad politicized citizen-soldiers, Keene finally argues, in ways she asks us to ponder. She finds that the country and the conscripts—in their view—entered into a certain social compact, one that assured veterans that the federal government owed conscripted soldiers of the twentieth century debts far in excess of the pensions the Grand Army of the Republic had claimed in the late nineteenth century.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801874468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectively against a highly trained enemy, and then somehow reward these troops for their service? In Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, Jennifer D. Keene argues that the doughboy experience in 1917–18 forged the U.S. Army of the twentieth century and ultimately led to the most sweeping piece of social-welfare legislation in the nation's history—the G.I. Bill. Keene shows how citizen-soldiers established standards of discipline that the army in a sense had to adopt. Even after these troops had returned to civilian life, lessons learned by the army during its first experience with a mass conscripted force continued to influence the military as an institution. The experience of going into uniform and fighting abroad politicized citizen-soldiers, Keene finally argues, in ways she asks us to ponder. She finds that the country and the conscripts—in their view—entered into a certain social compact, one that assured veterans that the federal government owed conscripted soldiers of the twentieth century debts far in excess of the pensions the Grand Army of the Republic had claimed in the late nineteenth century.