Chichester In The Great War

Author : John J. Eddleston
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473865956
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chichester in the Great War written by John J. Eddleston and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tangmere Airfield had a prominent role in the Air War from 1916 onwards and many local men joined the Royal Sussex Regiment. This book looks at 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 Chichester were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. The Great War affected everyone. At home there were wounded soldiers in military hospitals, refugees from Belgium and later on German prisoners of war. There were food and fuel shortages and disruption to schooling. The role of women changed dramatically and they undertook a variety of work undreamed of in peacetime. Meanwhile, men serving in the armed forces were scattered far and wide. Extracts from contemporary letters reveal their heroism and give insights into what it was like under battle conditions.

Author : West Sussex County Council
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750961279
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great War Britain West Sussex: Remembering 1914-18 written by West Sussex County Council and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: West Sussex offers an intimate portrayal of the county and its people living in the shadow of the 'war to end all wars'. A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible volume, it describes local reaction to the outbreak of war; charts the experience of individuals who enlisted; the changing face of industry; the work of the many hospitals in the area; the effect of the conflict on local families; the women who defied convention to play a vital role on the home front; and concludes with a chapter dedicated to how the county and its people coped with the transition to life in peacetime once more. The Great War story of West Sussex is told through the testimony of those who were there and is vividly illustrated with evocative images from the archives of West Sussex County Council and local museums.

Author : Edward Heron-Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edward Heron-Allen's Journal of the Great War written by Edward Heron-Allen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Heron-Allen was a solicitor by profession but he was also a distinguished zoologist (F.R.S.), historian, Persian scholar and translator. This is his chronicle of the impact of the First World War on the lives of himself, his family and friends in Selsey and London, his military training with the Sussex Volunteer Regiment and officer training in Tunbridge Wells, and his experiences in the propaganda department of the War Office. He vividly recounts the privations suffered by the local Sussex community and his experiences of the destruction at the Western Front.

Author : Joshua Bilton
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1473876958
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany in the Great War written by Joshua Bilton and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the experiences of the Central Powers, specifically Austria-Hungary, Germany and the Ottoman Empire during 1917, as they fought on land, at sea and in the air. Drawing on hundreds of contemporary photographs, many of them never previously published, this book examines the experiences of these three nations, spotlighting not only the events that occurred throughout the year, but the lives of those individuals fighting and dying to defend their homelands, families and friends. Each chapter includes a succinct overview of a single front or theatre of operation, complimenting the hundreds of professional and amateur photographs contained within. Though many of the images are of the German and Austro-Hungarian armies on the Westfront and Ostfront, several additional chapters also explore the fighting across other, lesser-known fronts, including the Südwest Front and in Sinai and Palestine, and Mesopotamia. This book is an excellent pictorial guide that would be of benefit to anyone seeking to gain a better understanding of what life was like from the perspective of the German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman armies, and their peoples during the fourth year of the First World War.

Author : Marcelline Block
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144226098X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Cinema and the Great War written by Marcelline Block and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even a century after its conclusion, the devastation of the Great War still echoes in the work of artists who try to make sense of the political, moral, ideological, and economic changes and challenges it spawned. France, the military major power of the Western Front, carries the legacy of battles on its own soil, and countless French lives lost defending the nation from the Central Powers. It is no surprise that the impact of the First World War can still be seen in French films into the present day. French Cinema and the Great War: Remembrance and Representation provides the first book-length study of World War I as it is featured in French cinema, from the silent era to contemporary films. Presented in three thematic sections—Recording and Remembering the Great War, Women at the Front, and Interrogating Commemoration—the essays in this volume explore the ways in which French film contributes to the restoration and modification of memories of the war. Films such as La Grande Illusion,King of Hearts, A Very Long Engagement, and Joyeux Noel are among those discussed in the volume’s examination of the various ways in which film mediates personal and collective memories of this critical historical event. This volume will be an invaluable resource, not only to those interested in French Cinema or the cinema of the Great War, but also to those interested in the impacts of war, more generally, on the cultural output of nations torn by the violence, death, and destruction of military conflict.

Author : Hew Strachan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198743122
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War written by Hew Strachan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: 1998. New edition published in hardcover in 2014.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004393544
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World at War, 1911-1949 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A World At War, 1911-1949, scholars of the cultural history of warfare, inspired by the work of Professor John Horne, break down the traditional barriers between the historiographies of the First and Second World Wars.

Author : Ian F. W. Beckett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317866150
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great War written by Ian F. W. Beckett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunderstanding and differing national war aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences for both soldiers and civilians, for science and technology, for national politics and for pan-European revolution. The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers, changed the balance of power and influenced the arts, national memory and political thought. The reach of this acount is global, showing how a conflict among European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embraced Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States.

Author : Alexander Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139867253
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enduring the Great War written by Alexander Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay natural human resilience. Drawing widely on contemporary letters and diaries of British and German soldiers, psychiatric reports and official documentation, and interpreting these sources with modern psychological research, this unique account provides fresh insights into the soldiers' fears, motivations and coping mechanisms. It explains why the British outlasted their opponents by examining and comparing the motives for fighting, the effectiveness with which armies and societies supported men and the combatants' morale throughout the conflict on both sides. Finally it challenges the consensus on the war's end, arguing that not a 'covert strike' but rather an 'ordered surrender' led by junior officers brought about Germany's defeat in 1918.

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147385556X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harrogate & Ripon in the Great War written by Stephen Wade and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harrogate and Ripon, just a few miles apart in one of the most beautiful localities in Yorkshire, have rarely had their contributions to the Great War told all together, in one volume. Stephen Wade has written an account of their importance, from the Ripon camps, where thousands of infantrymen for Kitcheners new Pals Battalions were trained, to the many Harrogate hospitals where casualties were cared for. Added to this are stories of local individuals, at home and in the European theatre of war, who played their part in this massive conflict. Harrogate and Ripon,made the usual contributions to the war effort, raising money and making food, but the local people experienced many of the significant Yorkshire events of the war, such as the explosion at Barnbow munitions factory and the housing of Belgian refugees. The book tells the stories of not only the heroes, such as Betty Stevenson and Donald Bell VC, but of the ordinary Yorkshire folk who endured the hardships and made great sacrifices. The book provides ample evidence that Harrogate and Ripon, along with their surrounding areas, have a fine record for courage and determination during the First World War.