Book Description
This book is about a violinist fighting on the Eastern front during World War I.
Author : Fritz Kreisler
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 1915
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
This book is about a violinist fighting on the Eastern front during World War I.
Author : Fritz Kreisler
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 1915
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
This book is about a violinist fighting on the Eastern front during World War I.
Author : Adam Hibbert
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2005-06-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781410914736
Using personal accounts, describes the terrible loss of life in the trenches on the Western Front as well as on other battlegrounds around the world.
Author : Kreisler Fritz
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2016-06-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781318711949
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Joseph E. Persico
Publisher : Random House
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307430928
November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered–more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Why? Allied commanders wanted to punish the enemy to the very last moment and career officers saw a fast-fading chance for glory and promotion. Joseph E. Persico puts the reader in the trenches with the forgotten and the famous–among the latter, Corporal Adolf Hitler, Captain Harry Truman, and Colonels Douglas MacArthur and George Patton. Mainly, he follows ordinary soldiers’ lives, illuminating their fate as the end approaches. Persico sets the last day of the war in historic context with a gripping reprise of all that led up to it, from the 1914 assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, which ignited the war, to the raw racism black doughboys endured except when ordered to advance and die in the war’s last hour. Persico recounts the war’s bloody climax in a cinematic style that evokes All Quiet on the Western Front, Grand Illusion, and Paths of Glory. The pointless fighting on the last day of the war is the perfect metaphor for the four years that preceded it, years of senseless slaughter for hollow purposes. This book is sure to become the definitive history of the end of a conflict Winston Churchill called “the hardest, cruelest, and least-rewarded of all the wars that have been fought.”
Author : Eugene Edward Beiriger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Focusing on the war on the Western and Southern fronts and inclusive of material from all sides of the conflict, this book explores the novels and poems of significant soldier-writers alongside important contemporary historical documents. The literary works of the First World War are one of the richest sources we have for understanding one of the twentieth century's most significant conflicts. Not only do many of them have historical merit, but some were critically acclaimed by both contemporaries and subsequent scholars. For example, Henri Barbusse's Under Fire, one of the earliest novels of the war, won accolades in France and the respect of war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen as well as novelists Erich Maria Remarque and Ernest Hemingway. This book examines these works and those of war poets Rupert Brooke and John McCrae and others, providing context as well as opportunities to explore thematic elements with primary source documents, such as diaries, letters, memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, speeches, and government publications. It is unique in its use of literary and historical sources as mediums by which to both better understand the literature of the war and use literature to better understand the war itself.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Nineteenth century
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 1915
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Fritz Kreisler
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2017-05-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781546540236
Four Weeks in the Trenches: The War Story of a Violinist By Fritz Kreisler
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Publisher :
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Christianity
ISBN :