Book Description
Examines the day-to-day life and experiences of the typical American soldier during World War II. Includes a glossary of terms and a brief chronology of the major campaigns of the war.
Author : Martin Windrow
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 1986
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 9780863132995
Examines the day-to-day life and experiences of the typical American soldier during World War II. Includes a glossary of terms and a brief chronology of the major campaigns of the war.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 1093 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0007383487
Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, Tommy is the first history of World War I to place the British soldier who fought in the trenches centre-stage.
Author : Thomas Cairns Livingstone
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0007285388
The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.
Author : Neil R. Storey
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445669889
A hundred years have now passed since Britain sent hundreds of thousands of men to fight and to die on the Western Front and elsewhere. This is the perfect introduction to the life and experiences of the ordinary British soldier.
Author : Julian Walker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1350012742
"An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender and class to give a many-sided picture of language used during the conflict." The Spectator First World War expert Julian Walker looks at how the conflict shaped English and its relationship with other languages. He considers language in relation to mediation and authenticity, as well as the limitations and potential of different kinds of verbal communication. Walker also examines: - How language changed, and why changed language was used in communications - Language used at the Front and how the 'language of the war' was commercially exploited on the Home Front - The relationship between language, soldiers and class - The idea of the 'indescribability' of the war and the linguistic codes used to convey the experience 'Languages of the front' became linguistic souvenirs of the war, abandoned by soldiers but taken up by academics, memoir writers and commentators, leaving an indelible mark on the words we use even today.
Author : Don Tyler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : History
ISBN :
This book discusses WWI-era music in a historical context, explaining music's importance at home and abroad during WWI as well as examining what music was being sung, played, and danced to during the years prior to America's involvement in the Great War. Why was music so important to soldiers abroad during World War I? What role did music—ranging from classical to theater music, rags, and early jazz—play on the American homefront? Music of the First World War explores the tremendous importance of music during the years of the Great War—when communication technologies were extremely limited and music often took the place of connecting directly with loved ones or reminiscing via recorded images. The book's chapters cover music's contribution to the war effort; the variety of war-related songs, popular hits, and top recording artists of the war years; the music of Broadway shows and other theater productions; and important composers and lyricists. The author also explores the development of the fledgling recording industry at this time.
Author : Tim Kendall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0191642045
The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.
Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 110703843X
Covering a range of topics, settings and styles, the book offers the first comprehensive study of short fiction from the First World War.
Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1785007645
The First World War has left an almost indelible mark on history, with battles such as the Somme and Passchendaele becoming watchwords for suffering unsurpassed. The dreadful fighting on the Western Front, and elsewhere in the world, remains vivid in the public imagination. Over the years dozens of books have been published dealing with the soldier's experience, the military history and the weapons and vehicles of the war, but there has been little devoted to the objects associated with those hard years in the trenches. This book (new in paperback) redresses that balance. With hundreds of carefully captioned photographs of items that would have been part of the everyday life for the British Tommy; from recruiting posters, uniforms and entrenching equipment to games, postcards and pieces of 'trench art', this book brings to life the experience of the Great War soldier through the objects with which he would have been surrounded.
Author : Sarah Cole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521819237
Cole examines the rich history of masculine intimacy in the twentieth century. She foregrounds such crucial themes as broken friendships, blood brotherhood, and the bereavement of the war poet. Cole argues that these dramas of compelling and often tortured male friendship have generated a particular voice within the literary canon.