著者:Ann-Marie Einhaus
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
The poetry of the First World War has come to dominate our understanding of its literature, while genres such as the short story, which are just as vital to the literary heritage of the era, have la……続きを見る
The Western Front, running from the Belgian coast in the north to the Swiss border in the south, was to prove the decisive battlefront of World War I. It was where the great powers of Germany, Franc……続きを見る
The struggle for naval supremacy and the naval arms race inspired by HMS Dreadnought may have captured the headlines, but the opening stages of the naval war were dominated by the threat from German……続きを見る
World War I and the Versailles Treaty that followed produced the most serious upheaval in a long and stormy course of modern world history. Four great empires - Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, and……続きを見る
A German deserter's war experience
About ten minutes we might have lain in the grass when we suddenly heard rifle shots in front of us. Electrified, all of us jumped up and hastened to our rifles. T……続きを見る
Rediscover the World War I masterpieceーone of the few memoirs about the Italian frontーfor fans of military history and All Quiet on the Western Front.
An infantryman’s “harrowing, moving, [and] oc……続きを見る
La Prima Guerra Mondiale ha segnato la fine di un'epoca: tra le trincee insanguinate di mezza Europa si è scritta definitivamente la parola fine all'Ottocento e si sono aperte le porte ad un nuovo o……続きを見る
著者:Peter Stanley
出版社: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
発売日: 2016年01月06日
At exactly 1.30 p.m. on 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of……続きを見る
First published in 1919, a personal account of World War I by the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. According to Wikipedia: "Theodore "Ted" Roosevelt III (generally known as Theodore, Jr.)……続きを見る
‘Well written and persuasive …objective and well-rounded….this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography’ **** Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday
‘A true judgment of him must lie somewhe……続きを見る
Were the two World Wars historical accidents or were they the undertakings of powerful yet undocumented cabals?
Was the Soviet Union the ultimate successor to European colonial empires? What role d……続きを見る
著者:Alan Clark
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2014年03月06日
On the outbreak of war in 1914, the armies of the Western Front soon became bogged down in the mud of Flanders and it is these events that many people associate most strongly with the First World Wa……続きを見る
Follow the conflict of the World War 1 from 1914-1918 through a unique collection of historical maps, expert commentary and photographs. Published in association and including mapping from the archi……続きを見る
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914.
1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfar……続きを見る
The First World War had profound consequences both for the evolution of the international system and for domestic political systems. How and why did the war start? Offering a unique interdisciplinar……続きを見る
It did not need a Fort Sumter cannonade to set the world in flames in 1914, only the pistol shots of an assassin.
The Great War 1914-1918, written by one of the leading military historians of his ti……続きを見る
著者:Jay Winter
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Jay Winter's powerful 1998 study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Win……続きを見る
What age was the youngest soldier to receive the Victoria Cross during WWI? What role did tanks play in the conflict? How much were Germany ordered to pay in reparations after the war? All these que……続きを見る
著者:Rhys Crawley
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2014年03月19日
Gallipoli: the mere name summons the story of this well-known campaign of the First World War. And the story of Gallipoli, where in August 1915 the Allied forces made their last valiant effort again……続きを見る
著者:David French
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年04月03日
This book illustrates the relationship between British military policy and the development of British war aims during the opening years of the First World War. Basing his work on a wide range of unp……続きを見る
Learn the history of World War I in an easy afternoon read. World War One, or the “Great War” as it was called at the time, was the devastating consequence of a Serbian revolutionary group’s 1914 mu……続きを見る
How the men and women of Britain found 'the road home' after the Great War. From the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE LOST POST.
11am, 11.11.1918: the war is finally over.
After four long year……続きを見る
著者:Taylor Downing
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2014年05月01日
The First World War is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided by brutal machinery that cost the lives of many. But behind all of this a scientific ……続きを見る
著者:Max Egremont
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2014年05月08日
While the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry – words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else.
The poets – many ……続きを見る
The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended i……続きを見る
Em 1914, a Europa mergulhou num conflito sem precedentes. A Primeira Guerra Mundial desfez impérios, aniquilou dinastias e transformou toda a geopolítica do Velho Mundo, marcando de fato o início do……続きを見る
A two-book collection of Max Hastings’ bestselling works about the 20th century’s most terrible global conflicts.
‘Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914’: In this centenary year, Hastings’ thrilling ……続きを見る
Readers of the 1917 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack were advised by the editor, Sydney Pardon: “Its chief feature is a record of the cricketers who have fallen in the War – the Roll of Honour, so far as……続きを見る
In this searing indictment of the rationale behind the First World War, Paul Ham argues that European leaders did not ‘sleepwalk’ into war, but that they fully accepted and understood the consequenc……続きを見る
著者:Neta Gordon
出版社: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
発売日: 2014年03月25日
Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack Ho……続きを見る