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WW1 at Sea
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Victoria Carolan |
Images of WWI in the popular consciousness normally involve the bloody attrition of trench warfare, the miles of mud, the shattered earth, the tangled miles of barbed wire. However there was another … |
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A German generation
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Thomas August Kohut |
"Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new histor… |
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At home and under fire
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Susan R. Grayzel |
"War has always had consequences for civilians, but during the First World War, air raids redefined British civilians' experiences and expectations of warfare. This book also demonstrates how the leg… |
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Contested commemorations
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Benjamin Ziemann |
"This innovative study of remembrance in Weimar Germany analyses how experiences and memories of the Great War were transformed along political lines after 1918. Examining the symbolism, language and… |
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Barbed Wire Disease
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John Yarnall |
From the Preface...
This study concentrates on British and German prisoners taken on the Western Front, where alleged neglect and ill-treatment became the subject of major propaganda campaigns in … |
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Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!
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Michael Freemantle |
The harnessing of the power of chemistry was a key factor in determining the shape and duration of the First World War and ultimately became the difference between winning and losing. The industrial-… |
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A foreign field
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Ben Macintyre |
In the first terrifying days of World War I, four British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the western front. They were forced to hide in the tiny French village of Villeret, w… |
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Deutschlands Rolle in der Vorgeschichte der beiden Weltkriege
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Andreas Hillgruber |
One of the most hotly disputed topics in twentieth-century history has been Germany's share of responsibility -- "its guilt" -- for the outbreak of the two world wars. In this short, penetrating stud… |
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The spy who never was
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Julia Keay |
214 p., [8] p. of plates : 24 cm |
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Mimi and Toutou Go Forth
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Giles Foden |
At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon 'Tanganjikasee', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it wa… |
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Army, Industry and Labour in Germany, 1914–1918
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Gerald D. Feldman |
This innovative study by one of the leading specialists in the field examines the social and economic role of the German army in the nation’s internal affairs during the First World War. This was the… |
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