The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory - 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 The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory write by Matthew Haultain-Gall. This book was released on 2021-04. The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Ypres salient 'was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions' wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who fought in the infamous third battle of Ypres - now known as Passchendaele - in 1917 would have disagreed. All five of the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF) infantry divisions were engaged in this bloody campaign. Despite early successes, their attacks floundered when autumn rains drenched the battlefield, turning it into an immense quagmire. By the time the AIF withdrew, it had suffered over 38,000 casualties, including 10,000 dead, far outweighing Australian losses in any other Great War campaign. Given the extent of their sacrifices, the Australians' exploits in Belgium ought to be well known in a nation that has fervently commemorated its involvement in the First World War. Yet, Passchendaele occupies an ambiguous place in Australian collective memory. Tracing the commemorative work of official and non-official agents, The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory explores why these battles became, and still remain, peripheral to the dominant First World War narrative in Australia: the Anzac legend.
Postcards from the Western Front
Postcards from the Western Front - 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 Postcards from the Western Front write by Mark Connelly. This book was released on 2022-09-15. Postcards from the Western Front available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Visitors to the battlefields of France and Belgium expressed pain and anguish, pride and nostalgia, and wonder and surprise at what they saw. Postcards from the Western Front chronicles the many ways in which these sites were perceived and commemorated by British people, both during the First World War and in the twenty years following the Armistice. Mark Connelly’s definitive and engaging study of the former Western Front examines how different and distinctive sub-communities – regional, ethnic and religious, civilian and armed forces – influenced the depth and strength of the visiting public’s relationship with the battlefields, all the while comparing and contrasting this relationship with the viewpoint of the French and Belgian inhabitants of the devastated regions. Connelly draws from a vast archive a number of interlocking themes, including the lingering presence of the battlefields in the British domestic imagination, the often fraught experience of visiting the battlefields, memorials and cemeteries functioning as part of a historical testimony to wartime realities, and the interactions between visitors and the people living in these former fighting zones. Focusing on French and Belgian sites, Connelly nevertheless provides insight into other major battlefields fought over by troops from the British Empire. Extensively illustrated with black and white photographs, Postcards from the Western Front offers a groundbreaking perspective on landscapes that rarely left anyone – whether tourist, inhabitant, veteran, or pilgrim – unmoved.
From Classroom to Battlefield
From Classroom to Battlefield - 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 From Classroom to Battlefield write by Barry Gough. This book was released on 2014-11-14. From Classroom to Battlefield available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In August 1914, Canada found itself jolted from its splendid isolation by the onrush of a European catastrophe. In Victoria, British Columbia, five hundred youth who had been educated at Victoria High School went to war and were forever changed by the experience. From Classroom to Battlefield follows the experiences of this cohort through the Second Battle of Ypres, when Canadians suffered terribly from the German use of poison gas; the horrors of the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, and Amiens; and, at last, victory at Mons. It weaves Victoria High School’s idealistic hopes into the realities of the pain, suffering, and death in faraway fields of fire, while examining legacies of the conflict at home. This is a poignant book about war, memory, and sacrifice from one of Canada’s preeminent writers of historical nonfiction.
Civil War Monuments and Memory
Civil War Monuments and Memory - 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 Civil War Monuments and Memory write by Jon Tracey. This book was released on 2022-09-06. Civil War Monuments and Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The American Civil War left indelible marks on the country. In the century and a half since the war, Americans have remembered the war in different ways. Veterans placed monuments to commemorate their deeds on the battlefield. In doing so, they often set in stone and bronze specific images in specific places that may have conflicted with the factual historical record. Erecting monuments and memorials became a way to commemorate the past, but they also became important tools for remembering that past in particular ways. Monuments honor, but they also embody the very real tension between history and the way we remember that history—what we now today call “memory.” Civil War Monuments and Memory: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War explores some of the ways people monumented and memorialized the war—and how those markers have impacted our understanding of it. This collection of essays brings together the best scholarship from Emerging Civil War’s blog, symposia, and podcast—all of it revised and updated—coupled with original pieces, designed to shed new light and insight on the monuments and memorials that give us some of our most iconic and powerful connections to the battlefields and the men who fought there.
Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg ...
Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg ... - 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 Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg ... write by New York (State). Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga. This book was released on 1900. Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg ... available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
