Book Description
The story of an epochal event in German history, this is also the story of the most important revolution that you might never have heard of.
Author : Robert Gerwarth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 0199546479
The story of an epochal event in German history, this is also the story of the most important revolution that you might never have heard of.
Author : Guy Cuthbertson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0300240651
A vivid, intimate hour-by-hour account of Armistice Day 1918, including photographs: “A pleasure to read . . . full of fascinating tidbits.” —The Wall Street Journal This is the first book to focus on the day the armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany, ending World War I. In this rich portrait of Armistice Day, which ranges from midnight to midnight, Guy Cuthbertson brings together news reports, photos, literature, memoirs, and letters to show how the people on the street, as well as soldiers and prominent figures like D. H. Lawrence and Lloyd George, experienced a strange, singular day of great joy, relief, and optimism—and examines how Britain and the wider world reacted to the news of peace. “[A] brilliant portrayal of Britain on the day that peace broke out; when people could believe there was an end to the war to end all wars. He weaves a wonderful tapestry of the mood and events across the country, drawing on a wide range of local and regional newspapers . . . accessible history at its best . . . outstanding.” —The Evening Standard
Author : Alfred Döblin
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Fromm International Publishing Corporation
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Set in Berlin after Germany's defeat in World War I, Doblin makes vividly real the public and private dramas of a nation on the brink of revolution. He brings to life a fascinating cast of characters that includes both the makers of history and the historically anonymous.
Author : Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
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Author : Stanley Weintraub
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Alfred Döblin
Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Fromm International Publishing Corporation
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
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Author : Derek Clayton
Publisher : Helion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,30 MB
Release : 2024-01-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781804514771
The Battle of the Sambre, 4 November 1918, was a decisive British victory. The battle has, however, been largely neglected by historians: it was the last large-scale, set-piece battle fought by the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front: the Armistice was only one week away. Seven Victoria Crosses were won and the poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action. In scale it was similar to the first day of the Battle of the Somme: thirteen divisions of the BEF led the assault on a frontage of approximately twenty miles, supported by over a thousand guns, with initial plans presuming an involvement of up to seventy tanks and armored cars. The German Army was determined to hold a defensive line incorporating the Mormal Forest and the Sambre-Oise Canal, hoping to buy time for a strategic withdrawal to as yet incomplete defensive positions between Antwerp and the Meuse river and thereby negotiate a compromise peace in the spring of 1919. This is the only book devoted solely to this battle and includes original, bespoke, color maps covering every inch of the battlefield. The work analyzes the battle at the operational and tactical levels: the BEF was no longer striving for a breakthrough - sequential 'bite and hold' was now the accepted method of advance. Drawing on information largely from unpublished archives, including over 300 formation or unit war diaries, Dr Clayton casts a critical eye over the day's events, examining the difference between plan and reality; the tactical proficiency of units engaged; the competence of commanders, some of whom proved capable of pragmatic flexibility in the face of stubborn enemy resistance and were able to adapt or even abandon original plans in order to ensure ultimate success. The role of the Royal Engineers is also highlighted, their tasks including devising improvised bridging equipment to facilitate the crossing of the waterway. Other questions are raised and answered: to what extent was this an 'all-arms' battle? Where does this engagement fit in the context of the BEF's 'learning curve'? Was it necessary to fight the battle at all? Was it indeed decisive? Dr Clayton's analysis places the battle into its wider strategic context and reaches important, new conclusions: that this victory, hard-won as it was by a British army hampered by logistical, geographical and meteorological constraints and worn down by the almost continuous hard fighting of the summer and autumn, irrevocably and finally crushed the will of the German defenders, leading to a pursuit of a demoralized, broken and beaten army, whose means of continued resistance had been destroyed, thus expediting the armistice.
Author : Gordon Brook-Shepherd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1448217172
The account of the Great War portrayed in this book spans the last hundred days of the conflict; from the surprise blow struck by the British at Amiens on 8 August, down to the signing of the Armistice which ended the war three months later. For the first time all of the sub-plots in the story are given their proper weight, as we see Germany's allies being knocked out one by one. The triumphs and tragedies are told in the words of the witnesses themselves, humble and mighty. Mr Brook-Shepherd's original eye-witness sources range from the eighty-nine-year-old former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary (the last surviving member of Europe's old ruling order), to private soldiers who fought on both sides of the barbed wire. In describing the death of Old Europe and the suicide of the Empires, the author provides a far-reaching overview of the new world order that dawned in November 1918. The result is a panorama rich in colour and human interest which provides a background to the events of that year; an essential lesson for readers even today.
Author : Gordon Brook-Shepherd
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
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Author : Alan Warwick Palmer
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 2000-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802137876
Now in paperback, a distinguished historian recounts the myriad tragic blunders and the unprecedented, unfathomable bloodshed that was World War I in a fresh and revealing look at the war and its impact on the 20th century. Maps. of photos.