War Letters of Fallen Englishmen - 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 War Letters of Fallen Englishmen write by Laurence Housman. This book was released on 2002-07-02. War Letters of Fallen Englishmen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than eight million young men perished during the First World War—a staggering figure. The natural reaction to such a great loss of humanity was to forget the individuals and recast the conflict into one of faceless armies and battles commemorated in stone and metal monuments. War Letters of Fallen Englishmen was published following the war in order to remind the living of those who were lost in the name of the British crown—brothers, husbands, fathers, sons. This collection provides, in the very words of those who participated and died in combat, the closest approximation possible to the experience of war. Carefully selected from thousands of letters, those in this collection are poignant, powerful, and graphic and were chosen for their depth of perception, the intensity of their descriptions, and their messages to future generations. This edition contains a new foreword by the distinguished World War I historian Jay Winter.
War Letters of Fallen Englishmen ; Ed. by Laurence Housman
War Letters of Fallen Englishmen ; Ed. by Laurence Housman - 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 War Letters of Fallen Englishmen ; Ed. by Laurence Housman write by Laurence Housman. This book was released on 1930. War Letters of Fallen Englishmen ; Ed. by Laurence Housman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Lost Generation. A Handful of Letters Extracted from "War Letters of Fallen Englishmen"
The Lost Generation. A Handful of Letters Extracted from "War Letters of Fallen Englishmen" - 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 Lost Generation. A Handful of Letters Extracted from "War Letters of Fallen Englishmen" write by Laurence Housman. This book was released on 1931. The Lost Generation. A Handful of Letters Extracted from "War Letters of Fallen Englishmen" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A War of Individuals
A War of Individuals - 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 War of Individuals write by Jonathan Atkin. This book was released on 2002. A War of Individuals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book draws together for the very first time examples of the 'aesthetic pacifism' practised during the Great War by such celebrated individuals as Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon and Bertrand Russell. In addition, the book outlines the stories of those less well-known who shared the mind-set of the Bloomsbury Group when it came to facing the first 'total war'. The research for this study took five years, gathering evidence from all the major archives in Great Britain and abroad. This is the first time that such wide-ranging evidence has been placed together in order to paint a complete pi.
The Countryside at War 1914-1918
The Countryside at War 1914-1918 - 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 Countryside at War 1914-1918 write by Caroline Dakers. This book was released on 2013-09-19. The Countryside at War 1914-1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When war broke out in 1914 conscription seemed unnecessary; there was no shortage of volunteers ready to lay down their lives for their country. In this fascinating book, illustrated with contemporary drawings and photographs, Caroline Dakers explores exactly what their 'country' meant to the men and women who fought, died, survived. She suggests that, with a little subliminal help from literature, art and propaganda, the British volunteer, whether factory worker, farm hand or public school boy, felt that he was fighting for old England - village, church, meadow and carthorse, rather than city, factory, commerce and motor car. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished papers and family archives, Dr Dakers recreates the world of the countryside at war. There are chapters on agriculture (literally 'the home front'), and life and death in the manor house, vicarage, school and farm. And while all this was being fought for, The French countryside was smashed into a quagmire. This is the most complete picture yet of the impact of the First World War on rural England; a war which, if only in the ubiquitous village war memorials, still reverberates across the decades.
