Surviving the Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surviving the Great War write by Aaron Pegram. This book was released on 2019-11-12. Surviving the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Surviving the Great War is the first detailed analysis of Australians in German captivity in WW1. By placing the hardships of prisoners of war in a broader social and military content, this book adds a new dimension to the national wartime experience and challenges popular representations of Australia's involvement in the First World War.
Kitchener's Last Volunteer
Kitchener's Last Volunteer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kitchener's Last Volunteer write by Dennis Goodwin. This book was released on 2011-01-31. Kitchener's Last Volunteer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Henry Allingham is the last British serviceman alive to have volunteered for active duty in the First World War and is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict. In Kitchener's Last Volunteer, he vividly recaptures how life was lived in the Edwardian era and how it was altered irrevocably by the slaughter of millions of men in the Great War, and by the subsequent coming of the modern age. Henry is unique in that he saw action on land, sea and in the air with the British Naval Air Service. He was present at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 with the British Grand Fleet and went on to serve on the Western Front. He befriended several of the young pilots who would lose their lives, and he himself suffered the privations of the front line under fire. In recent years, Henry was given the opportunity to tell his remarkable story to a wider audience through a BBC documentary, and he has since become a hero to many, meeting royalty and having many honours bestowed upon him. This is the touching story of an ordinary man's extraordinary life - one who has outlived six monarchs and twenty-one prime ministers, and who represents a last link to a vital point in our nation's history.
A Soldier of the Great War
A Soldier of the Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Soldier of the Great War write by Mark Helprin. This book was released on 1991. A Soldier of the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A young aesthete from a privileged Roman family, Alexandro Giuliani, found his charmed existence shattered by the coming of WWI. Highly recommended.
Veterans
Veterans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Veterans write by Richard van Emden. This book was released on 2006-03-19. Veterans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using the veterans own words and photographs, the book brings to life a mixture of their excitement of embarkation for France, their unbound optimism and courage, the agony of the trenches, and numbing fear of going over the top. The fight for survival, the long ordeal of those who were wounded and the ever present grief caused by appalling loss and waste of life make for compelling reading.The veterans give us first hand accounts of stark honesty, as they describe in many cases more freely than ever before about experiences which have lived with them for over 80 years.
Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War
Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War write by Benjamin Ziemann. This book was released on 2017-09-21. Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Translated into English as the Winner of the Geisteswissenschaften International Translation Prize for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2015. During the Great War, mass killing took place on an unprecedented scale. Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War explores the practice of violence in the German army and demonstrates how he killing of enemy troops, the deaths of German soldiers and their survival were entwined. As the war reached its climax in 1918, German soldiers refused to continue killing in their droves, and thus made an active contribution to the German defeat and ensuing revolution. Examining the postwar period, the chapters of this book also discuss the contested issue of a 'brutalization' of German society as a prerequisite of the Nazi mass movement. Biographical case studies on key figures such as Ernst Jünger demonstrate how the killing of enemy troops by German soldiers followed a complex set of rules. Benjamin Ziemann makes a wealth of extensive archival work available to an Anglophone audience for the first time, enhancing our understanding of the German army and its practices of violence during the First World War as well as the implications of this brutalization in post-war Germany. This book provides new insights into a crucial topic for students of twentieth-century German history and the First World War.
