This year we will see a cascade of patriotic froth surrounding the anniversary of the First World War, which is to be reinvented as a time when the whole nation united against an external threat and through immense sacrifice and heroism triumphed. WWI was, however, a clash of empires. Both the British and the German ruling classes were prepared for any number of dead and maimed to advance their imperial interests. As Dave Sherry shows in this accessible history, working class people suffered during WWI, but also began to fight back in the Russian and German revolutions.
He was marketed as the 'King of Thrillers' and they gave him the trademark image of a trilby, a cigarette holder and a yellow Rolls Royce.
He was marketed as the 'King of Thrillers' and they gave him the trademark image of a trilby, a cigarette holder and a yellow Rolls Royce.
Newton Baker, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of War, worried that New Yorkers would object to their sons being the only ... Harris, Stephen L., Duffy's War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan, and the Irish Fighting 69thin World WarI ...
"In this seminal work, Ian F. W. Beckett challenges the cliched images of the Great War that have come to dominate popular culture.
Covers the Schlieffen Plan and the main battles of 1914. Covers the revised content for National Curriculum History at Key Stage 3
The Red Cross Barge
Account of the major events of the First World War.
History of the 43rd and 52nd (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) Light Infantry in the Great War, 1914-1918
Uncle Andy's Diary (1916-1919): The War Experiences of Andrew Stewart Dewar
The Kingdom of the Blind