Carlisle In The Great War

Author : David Carter
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783376139
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carlisle in the Great War written by David Carter and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Carlisle were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through. ??Already an important railway junction, with local industrial and commercial interests reflecting its historical position on the border with Scotland, Carlisle became a key settlement in the Great War. ??The Carlisle story includes the arrival of Belgian Refugees; the care of wounded men passing through the city on hospital trains; recruiting the Lonsdale Battalion; dealing with the aftermath of the Gretna rail disaster; caring for the wounded brought to the local hospitals after major battles; the effect of the Gretna Munitions factory on the city and state ownership of public houses and breweries. Beneath these new activities normal life continued with children going to school, local government dealing with a growing population and daily work and commerce

Author : David Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781473840379
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carlisle in the Great War written by David Carter and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig Armstrong
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473875218
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alnwick in the Great War written by Craig Armstrong and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a market town and one of the seats of government of the county authority, Alnwick played a key role in the coordination of Northumberlands war effort. With a wide rural hinterland, the town was considerably important in the production and dispersal of food, which was vital to the war effort. As the home of the Duke of Northumberland, the town had a hugely influential role in the overall Northumbrian war effort from civilian affairs to military recruitment.The town shared a proud tradition of military service with the wider region, and this was reflected in the huge numbers of Alnwick men and women who came forward for service in the military or in roles such as nursing. The town was a regional recruitment centre and hosted its own unit of the 1/7th (Territorial) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, as well as other military units. From 1915, Alnwick was also one of the largest infantry training bases in the north of England. Many of the locally raised Pals Battalions, which were raised in the north, received their training here. For those left behind in Alnwick, the war was a time of worry and hardship, however others saw the business opportunities. This book includes accounts of the struggle that local families faced in coping with rising wartime prices, longer working hours and endless worry, sometimes in the face of accusations of drunkenness or idleness from the authorities and unfair criticism of the rural districts recruiting record.Despite these hardships, the people of Alnwick provided incredible charitable support right up until the end of the war, in addition to their normal efforts. Several military hospitals were set up in the town and surrounding area, with the training base later becoming a recuperation base for injured soldiers. These momentous efforts are explained throughout this compelling book, which is a testimony to the bravery, self-sacrifice and determination of the people of Alnwick during the Great War.

Author : Alex King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845209524
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memorials of the Great War in Britain written by Alex King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as its focus memorials of the First World War in Britain, this book brings a fresh approach to the study of public symbols by exploring how different motives for commemorating the dead were reconciled through the processes of local politics to create a widely valued form of collective expression. It examines how the memorials were produced, what was said about them, how support for them was mobilized and behaviour around them regulated. These memorials were the sites of contested, multiple and ambiguous meanings, yet out of them a united public observance was created. The author argues that this was possible because the interpretation of them as symbols was part of a creative process in which new meanings for traditional forms of memorial were established and circulated. The memorials not only symbolized emotional responses to the war, but also ambitions for the post-war era. Contemporaries adopted new ways of thinking about largely traditional forms of memorial to fit the uncertain social and political climate of the inter-war years.This book represents a significant contribution to the study of material culture and memory, as well as to the social and cultural history of modern warfare.

Author : Harold Carmichael Wylly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Border Regiment in the Great War written by Harold Carmichael Wylly and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew J. Huebner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190853948
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Death in the Great War written by Andrew J. Huebner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans today harbor no strong or consistent collective memory of the First World War. Ask why the country fought or what they accomplished, and "democracy" is the most likely if vague response. The circulation of confusing or lofty rationales for intervention began as soon as President Woodrow Wilson secured a war declaration in April 1917. Yet amid those shifting justifications, Love and Death in the Great War argues, was a more durable and resonant one: Americans would fight for home and family. Officials in the military and government, grasping this crucial reality, invested the war with personal meaning, as did popular culture. "Make your mother proud of you/And the Old Red White and Blue" went George Cohan's famous tune "Over There." Federal officials and their allies in public culture, in short, told the war story as a love story. Intervention came at a moment when arbiters of traditional home and family were regarded as under pressure from all sides: industrial work, women's employment, immigration, urban vice, woman suffrage, and the imagined threat of black sexual aggression. Alleged German crimes in France and Belgium seemed to further imperil women and children. War promised to restore convention, stabilize gender roles, and sharpen male character. Love and Death in the Great War tracks such ideas of redemptive war across public and private spaces, policy and implementation, home and front, popular culture and personal correspondence. In beautifully rendered prose, Andrew J. Huebner merges untold stories of ordinary men and women with a history of wartime culture. Studying the radiating impact of war alongside the management of public opinion, he recovers the conflict's emotional dimensions--its everyday rhythms, heartbreaking losses, soaring possibilities, and broken promises.

Author : Edwin A. Pratt
Publisher : London : Selwyn and Blount
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Railways and the Great War written by Edwin A. Pratt and published by London : Selwyn and Blount. This book was released on 1921 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Roderick Haig-Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The O.T.C. and the Great War written by Alan Roderick Haig-Brown and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward G. Lengel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118836391
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign written by Edward G. Lengel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign explores the single largest and bloodiest battle in American military history, including its many controversies, in historiographical essays that reflect the current state of the field. Presents original essays on the French and German participation in ‒ and perspectives on ‒ this important event Makes use of original archival research from the United States, France, and Germany Contributors include WWI scholars from France, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom Essays examine the military, social, and political consequences of the Meuse-Argonne and points the way for future scholarship in this area

Author : Arthur Capel Molyneux Croome
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools: Eton, Harrow and Winchester written by Arthur Capel Molyneux Croome and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: