World War I 48

La Prima Guerra Mondiale doveva essere la guerra che terminava tutte le guerre, da qui il nome la Grande Guerra. La Grande Guerra ebbe un brutto inizio dalla prospettiva della Germania. Il piano era……続きを見る

The Battle of Coronel was a German Navy victory over the Royal Navy on 1 November 1914 off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. German Kaiserliche Marine forces led by Vice-Admiral G……続きを見る

The Battle of the Falkland Islands was a British naval victory over the Imperial German Navy on 8 December 1914 during the First World War in the South Atlantic. The British, after a defeat at the B……続きを見る

Many historians describe the First World War as the primary catastrophy of the 20th century. One of the many reasons that led to the outbreak of war, was the maritime arms race between Germany and B……続きを見る

The Family that went to War' is set back in the early 1900's during wartime. The story follows six Australian family members as they each choose to go and fight for varying personal reasons. The boo……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Das Bombardement von Åbo" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Carl Spitteler (1845-1924) war ein Schweizer D……続きを見る

The First Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914, between the United Kingdom and Germany. The battle took place in the south-eastern N……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die vierzig Tage de……続きを見る

At about 7 p.m. on 27 July 1916, the Germans committed one of the worst atrocities of the First World War. Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt, Master of the Great Eastern Railway ship SS Brussels, had ……続きを見る

A rare and forgotten first-hand account of the first day of the Battle of the Somme by a British infantry soldier who went ‘over the top’ and survived. There are many accounts of the Battle of the S……続きを見る

Caporetto è la battaglia più famosa e più discussa della storia d'Italia, entrata nel linguaggio comune come sinonimo di disastro, immortalata da film e romanzi come Addio alle armi di Hemingway. A ……続きを見る

Much has been written about the men who left to fight in the First World War but what was life really like for those left behind on the Home Front? A bustling market town profoundly touched by the w……続きを見る

The arms race that led to the First World War started in 1897 at the Spithead Naval Review, when Kaiser Wilhelm saw the might of Britain's Navy. He wanted to equal or better the fleet of Britain, an……続きを見る

In this issue: Warriors and Warfare of the Han Dynasty (part two) Chun L. Wang, Four Centuries of Italian Armours (12th-15th century) (part two) Mario Venturi, The Venetian Army and Navy in the……続きを見る

In questo numero: Guerre e Soldati della Dinastia Han (parte II) Chun L. Wang, Quattro Secoli di Armature Italiane (XII – XV secolo)(parte II) Mario Venturi, L’Esercito e la Marina di Venezia n……続きを見る

Originally published in 1940, this is a memoir of Lieutenant-Colonel Harold E. Evans, a renowned Canadian-born commander who flew with Britain's Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the United States Army A……続きを見る

Fascinating account of the apparently minor chance encounter between German and British cavalry, supported by artillery, in the opening stages of the First World War as the German army wheeled throu……続きを見る

Saved from Nazi Holocaust, she grew in spirit to be a world leader. In 1935, Ruth was in born to an unmarried Jewish mother in Germany. Fearing the Nazi persecution, Ruth was sent to England on the ……続きを見る

When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of madness. The Old World and its empires were tearing each other apart, and while most Ameri……続きを見る

Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, Belinda Davis uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace ー particularly poorer women ー on Germ……続きを見る

Originally published in 1924 and available here in English for the first time, The Enemy’s House Divided is Charles de Gaulle’s analysis of the major errors that led the Germans to disaster in World……続きを見る

For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought in World War I, Woodrow Wilson’s charge to make the world “safe for democracy” carried life-or-death meaning. Chad L. Williams reveals the centra……続きを見る

Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of war’s significance to the history of the Great War. Exa……続きを見る

Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I dialogues with the variety of texts recently published to commemorate the Great War. It explores Italian socialist pacifism, the role of women during t……続きを見る

Indian soldiers had rallied bravely before to many a skirmish outside their frontiers, but never with as much conviction and in stellar numbers than in the greatest of them all-the First World War. ……続きを見る

Extrait : "Il me semble qu'on fait fausse route quand on veut apercevoir d'abord chez les Allemands des sentiments d'une violence et d'une cruauté anormales, un tempérament furieux. Je ne nie pas ce……続きを見る

September 1914, and the whole of Europe was at war following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914. In France and……続きを見る

During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Some failed to register for the draft, while others deserted after being inducted. In the coun……続きを見る

A fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psyche On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a Germa……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre los inicios de la Primera Guerra Mundial, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos……続きを見る