Author: Great Britain. Committee on Alleged German Outrages
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Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages
Author: Great Britain. Committee on Alleged German Outrages
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Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Rehearsals
Author: Jeff Lipkes
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058675963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 817
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"People screamed, cried, and groaned. Above the tumult I could distinguish the voices of small children. All this time the soldiers were singing.... Sometime after the first salvo, there was another round of fire and, once again, I was not hit. After this I heard fewer cries, save from time to time a small child calling its mother."?Félix Bourdon, survivor of a mass execution in Dinant, BelgiumIn August 1914, without any legitimate pretext, German soldiers killed nearly 6,000 Belgian noncombatants, including women and children, and burned some 25,000 homes and other buildings. Rehearsals is the first book to provide a detailed narrative history of the German invasion of Belgium as it affected civilians. Based on extensive eyewitness testimony, the book chronicles events in and around the towns of Liége, Aarschot, Andenne, Tamines, Dinant, and Leuven, where the worst of the German depredations occurred. Accounts of the killing, looting, and arson have long been dismissed as "atrocity propaganda," particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. Rehearsals examines the campaign by revisionists that led to voluminous and compelling testimony about German war crimes being discredited.Recently, the case has been made that the violence that came to a peak between August 19 and August 26, 1914, was the result of a spontaneous outbreak of German paranoia about civilian sharpshooters. In Rehearsals, Jeff Lipkes offers compelling evidence that the executions were in fact part of a deliberate campaign of terrorism ordered by military authorities. In his shocking account of events that have been largely overlooked by historians of World War I, Lipkes commemorates the heroism as well as the suffering of the Belgian victims of German aggression.
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058675963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
"People screamed, cried, and groaned. Above the tumult I could distinguish the voices of small children. All this time the soldiers were singing.... Sometime after the first salvo, there was another round of fire and, once again, I was not hit. After this I heard fewer cries, save from time to time a small child calling its mother."?Félix Bourdon, survivor of a mass execution in Dinant, BelgiumIn August 1914, without any legitimate pretext, German soldiers killed nearly 6,000 Belgian noncombatants, including women and children, and burned some 25,000 homes and other buildings. Rehearsals is the first book to provide a detailed narrative history of the German invasion of Belgium as it affected civilians. Based on extensive eyewitness testimony, the book chronicles events in and around the towns of Liége, Aarschot, Andenne, Tamines, Dinant, and Leuven, where the worst of the German depredations occurred. Accounts of the killing, looting, and arson have long been dismissed as "atrocity propaganda," particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. Rehearsals examines the campaign by revisionists that led to voluminous and compelling testimony about German war crimes being discredited.Recently, the case has been made that the violence that came to a peak between August 19 and August 26, 1914, was the result of a spontaneous outbreak of German paranoia about civilian sharpshooters. In Rehearsals, Jeff Lipkes offers compelling evidence that the executions were in fact part of a deliberate campaign of terrorism ordered by military authorities. In his shocking account of events that have been largely overlooked by historians of World War I, Lipkes commemorates the heroism as well as the suffering of the Belgian victims of German aggression.
Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages [and Appendix]
Author: Great Britain. Committee on Alleged German Outrages
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Category : Belgium
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Category : Belgium
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages Appointed by His Britannic Majesty's Government and Presided Over by the Right Hon. Viscount Bryce
Author: Great Britain. Committee on Alleged German Outrages
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Publisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages
Author: Great Britain. Committee on Alleged German Outrages
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Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Appendix to the Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages ...
Author: Great Britain. Committee on Alleged German Outrages
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Impressions of South Africa
Author: James Bryce
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Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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The American Commonwealth
Author: James Bryce
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Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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The War on Hospital Ships
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Category : Hospital ships
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Category : Hospital ships
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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The Blood of Our Sons
Author: N. Gullace
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137047518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In this ground-breaking study of the complex relationship between war, gender, and citizenship in Great Britain during World War I, Nicoletta Gullace shows how the assault on civilian masculinity led directly to women's suffrage. Through recruiting activities such as handing out white feathers to reputed 'cowards' and offering petticoats to unenlisted 'shirkers', female war enthusiasts drew national attention to the fact that manhood alone was an inadequate marker of civic responsibility. Proclaiming women's exemplary service to the nation, feminist organizations tapped into a public culture that celebrated military service while denigrating those who opposed the war. Drawing on the vast range of popular and official sources, Gullace reveals that the war had revolutionary implications for women who wished to vote and for men who were expected to fight.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137047518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In this ground-breaking study of the complex relationship between war, gender, and citizenship in Great Britain during World War I, Nicoletta Gullace shows how the assault on civilian masculinity led directly to women's suffrage. Through recruiting activities such as handing out white feathers to reputed 'cowards' and offering petticoats to unenlisted 'shirkers', female war enthusiasts drew national attention to the fact that manhood alone was an inadequate marker of civic responsibility. Proclaiming women's exemplary service to the nation, feminist organizations tapped into a public culture that celebrated military service while denigrating those who opposed the war. Drawing on the vast range of popular and official sources, Gullace reveals that the war had revolutionary implications for women who wished to vote and for men who were expected to fight.