World War
From Brel to Black Metal: The First World War in Popular Music and Music Videos
... First World War song is probably ‘Pack Up Your Troubles’ or ‘Over There’ but since the late 1950s there have been around 500 newly composed songs featuring the War in one form or ...
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Remembering the Road to World War Two
... Finney’s account of the historiography of the origins of the Second World War leaves the reader in no doubt that, as he writes in his introduction, history is ‘inexpungeably’ relative (p. 8). Not only is ...
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Conrad and the First World War
... First World War, Conrad believed himself peripheral to a transitional historical ...this war sit on one’s chest like a ...Great War and the uncertain legacy of the ...the war in his ...
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World War One The Great War\The War to End All Wars: 1914-1918
... in World War I was an attempt to bolster the capitalist system, mailed circulars to men eligible for the draft, stating that being conscripted against one’s will was unconstitutional and should be ...
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The United States in World War II
... For a long time, it looked as though Hitler might succeed in his mis- sion. Unprotected Amer- ican ships proved to be easy targets for the Ger- mans. In the first four months of 1942, the Germans sank 87 ships off the ...
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The French Army and the First World War
... As Elizabeth Greenhalgh alludes to in the introduction of her well-researched and constructed monograph, The French Army and the First World War, common perceptions of France’s military experience between ...
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First World War Digital Resources
... First World War website ...First World War is particularly welcome in light of the ongoing trend of mainstream debates in the run up to August ...the war [11] is a notable example of ...
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World War in the Twentieth Century
... Most of the works of Franz Kafka, a Czech writer, were unknown before his death in 1924. Kafka used surrealism in his work. Surrealism brings conscious and uncon- scious ideas together to portray life in a dreamlike way. ...
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Women's poetry of the First World War
... Prominent examples are John Johnston's English Poetry of the First World War Princeton, Princeton University Press 1964; Bernard Bergonzi's Heroes' Twilight London, Constable 1965; Jon S[r] ...
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Irish Rugby and the First World War
... First World War. When the war initially broke out, the response of the IRFU was much in keeping with that of their English counterpart: fixtures were cancelled and clubs were encouraged to urge ...
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The Canadian decision to enter World War II: A case study of the foreign policy decision-making process.
... "Towards the later part of August the international situation became so acute that it was apparent that war might break out any day. The government accordingly initiated certain precautionary measures of ...
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The Empire at war: British and Indian perceptions of empire in the First World War
... First World War’, ...African War (Basingstoke, 2002), ...on War and Life in Europe and their Meanings for Home and Self’, International Journal of Punjab Studies, 2, (1995), ...Underdeveloped ...
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Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
... the war. Churchill, as the chief architect for the war, needed to take full responsibility for the humiliating defeats that befell the army at the start of the war, and was advised, in view of these ...
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Secret histories and the dirty war: The 1970s Second World War film
... ‘dirty war’ where the ordinary rules did not apply. In The World War II Combat Film Jeanine Basinger identifies a brief cycle of revisionist war films – the ‘“Dirty Group” movies’, inspired by ...
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Army chaplains in the First World War
... The Last Crusade: The Church Marrin, England of First North Carolina: Duke in World War.. 179-182 Parliamentary Clerk the Recruiting Mr.[r] ...
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World War Looms
... The watchful League of Nations had been established after World War I to pre- vent just such aggressive acts. In this greatest test of the League’s power, represen- tatives were sent to Manchuria to ...
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First World War
... The new weapons and tactics of World War I led to horrific injuries and hazards. The fighting men were surrounded by filth, lice, rats, and polluted water that caused dysentery. They inhaled poison gas and ...
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Treating and preventing trauma: British military psychiatry during the Second World War
... In order to elucidate the perspective of psychiatrists who faced the Second 'World War, it is important therefore to examine both the history in War involvement First World the the of an[r] ...
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The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
... of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food traces the paths that led from the worldwide agricultural depression in the 1930s, to the Second World War, through to the post-war ...
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Archipelagic poetry of the First World War
... the war in emphatic terms or which dissented on grounds of nationalism from the Allied ...of war’, which, while it might have a distinctive local impact, was generally seen as a suffering that transcended ...
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