Home by Christmas That was the confident cry of the young men who marched to the frontlines in 1914. From London, Paris and Berlin they went in their millions, and in their millions they died. Marc Ferro's work, The Great War looks at the realities faced by those men and their families at home. Mapping tensions old and new, he offers an overview to the Great War. He details the meteoric rise of the bureaucratic classes prior to 1914, and charts the horrors of trench warfare. In particular he documents the reactions of the warring countries' socialist and labour organizations to the conflict....
Home by Christmas That was the confident cry of the young men who marched to the frontlines in 1914. From London, Paris and Berlin they went in their...
Use and Abuse of History has become a key text of current historiography; this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions about the use and abuse of history. Engaging and challenging, this book confronts the reader with the many 'histories' that exist and have existed around the world, from the Zulu kingdoms to Communist China.
This title has now been extensively revised by Marc Ferro, a well respected historian, and presents the different narratives that constitute the histories of countries as diverse as India, Iran, Trinidad and the United States...
Use and Abuse of History has become a key text of current historiography; this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions a...
