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When the World War I set Europe and the other nations ofthe world on flames including the American public opinion,soon began under the influence of the war prejudice andpropaganda the denouncement o……続きを見る

As the young men of Europe were fighting in the trenches, a little known contingent of Chinese labourers crossed the world to provide support vital to the Allied war effort. Largely illiterate farme……続きを見る

At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victorious powers set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory……続きを見る

As England suffered heavy casualties at the front during World War One, the nation closed ranks against outsiders at home. England sought to reaffirm its racial dominance at the heart of the empire,……続きを見る

It is a little known fact that during the First World War Russia received the majority of Chinese wartime labourers working overseas. Despite assurances that they would not be involved in the war, t……続きを見る

Winner of the Whitfield Book Prize 2020 On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied w……続きを見る

In this insightful and revealing study, Justin Fantauzzo uses a wide range of documentary and visual sources to explore the experience and memory of British and Dominion soldiers who fought in the M……続きを見る

The key battle of the First World War from the German point of view The Battle of the Somme has an enduring legacy, the image established by Alan Clark of 'lions led by donkeys': brave British soldi……続きを見る

Godefroy Antoine Hoffmann var en dansk soldat, som deltog i Første Verdenskrig på fransk side i Fremmedlegionen. Efter krigen nedskrev han sine erindringer fra årene, hvor han kæmpede på den franske……続きを見る

"A Journal of Impressions in Belgium" (1915) makes no attempt to be anything more than a journal: a lucid, simple, heart-breaking account of war at first hand. In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelis……続きを見る

Da Stefan Hertmans’ bedstefar døde i 1981, efterlod han to tætskrevne notesbøger til sit barnebarn. De næsten 600 sider indeholdt optegnelser om bedstefarens liv og i særdeleshed om hans tid som sol……続きを見る

Da Jens Peter under første verdenskrig bliver tvunget i tysk militærtjeneste, forfærdes han over krigens rædsler, og under et kort rekreationsophold beslutter han at desertere. For ikke at bringe si……続きを見る

We Dive at Dawn, first published in 1941, is the authoritative and highly readable account of Royal Navy submarines during World War I (with a final chapter on submarine warfare in the early years o……続きを見る

Ainsi donc l’histoire d’Archimède ne s’est pas passée tout à fait de la manière dont on nous la raconte. S’il est vrai qu’il a été tué pendant la conquête de Syracuse par les Romains, il n’est pas e……続きを見る

Il n’est pas, dans l’histoire de la royauté, un geste comparable à celui d’Albert Ier résistant de toute la hauteur de son courage et de sa loyauté à la honteuse violation de son royaume par les arm……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: Les pages qui suivent n’ont pas la prétention d’être un chapitre d’histoire; nous n’avons jamais cherché à expliquer, à commenter, ni même à comprendre les événements militaires auxquels no……続きを見る

Have you ever wondered how the world got to where it is today? Get ready to discover the rich history of our planet. You will be astonished to learn about some of the events that have occurred! 続きを見る

H. G. Wells si reca sui luoghi della Grande Guerra lungo il corso del conflitto. 続きを見る

John McElroy's 'Andersonville: The Rebel Military Prison' is a haunting account of the atrocities committed against Union soldiers imprisoned in the Confederate-run Andersonville prison during the C……続きを見る

In Gilbert Moxley Sorrel's 'Memoirs of a Confederate Staff Officer', readers are transported back to the American Civil War through the firsthand account of a key figure. Sorrel's memoirs provide a ……続きを見る

Samuel R. Watkins' 'Co. Aytch: Maury Grays First Tennessee Regiment' is a poignant and detailed memoir recounting the author's experiences as a soldier in the Confederate Army during the American Ci……続きを見る

Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) was a British Field Marshal and colonial administrator famous for his military campaigns and who later played a central role in the early part of the World War ……続きを見る

"Secrets of the Bosphorus" represents the memoirs of Henry Morgenthau Sr., U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1916. The book covers Morgenthau's service in Turkey, from 1913 until th……続きを見る

Les fantassins français partant à l'assaut sans casque, mais en pantalon garance repérable à plus de mille mètres ; le suicidaire déclenchement de la bataille des frontières par Joffre ; le désastre……続きを見る

Il y a cent ans, d'avril 1915 à juillet 1916, était perpétré le génocide du peuple arménien par les nationalistes jeunes-turcs. L'Empire ottoman, alors en guerre au côté des puissances centrales, le……続きを見る

Août 1914. Théophile Maupas, instituteur de campagne, est mobilisé. Des tranchées, il écrit de longues lettres à Blanche, sa femme, institutrice elle aussi. Début mars 1915, elle demeure plusieurs j……続きを見る

Contents Foreword -- Cartridges -- Rifles and Lewis guns -- Clydebank -- Ships in making -- The battle cruisers -- A hospital -- The guns -- A training camp -- Arras -- The battlefields -- Flying me……続きを見る

A Soldier of the Legion is a classic World War One memoir by Edward Morlae. The "Soldier of the Legion" has in it that spinal thrill which has electrified great tales of battle since blood was first……続きを見る

Ils ne sont pas allés se battre la fleur au fusil.Durant quatre ans, forts de leur conviction patriotique, ils se sont forgé une seule conviction : celle de vaincre. Mais ils n'en savaient pas encor……続きを見る

Histoire: Première guerre mondiale (1914-1918).... Bien que l’auteur ne puisse se porter garante des histoires relatées dans ce volume, elle a une confiance totale dans les sources de ses informatio……続きを見る