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The Silence of Memory: Armistice Day, 1919-1946
ISBN: 9780854969555 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nominated for the Longman History Today Book of the Year Prize, 1995 The first full-scale study of the rituals with which the British people commemorated three-quarters of a million war dead. Explains both the origins of the two minutes silence and the reasons for the success of the poppy appeal. This book examines how the British people came to terms with the massive trauma of the First World War. Although the literary memory of the war has often been discussed, little has been written on the public ceremonies on and around 11 November which dominated the public memory... Nominated for the Longman History Today Book of the Year Prize, 1995 The first full-scale study of the rituals with which the British people ... |
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515,55 |
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American Women in World War I: They Also Served
ISBN: 9780870818257 / Angielski / Miękka / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interweaving personal stories with historical photos and background, this lively account documents the history of the more than 40,000 women who served in relief and military duty during World War I. Through personal interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, and memoirs, Lettie Gavin relates poignant stories of women's wartime experiences and provides a unique perspective on their progress in military service. American Women in World War I captures the spirit of these determined patriots and their times for every reader and will be of special interest to military, women's, and...
Interweaving personal stories with historical photos and background, this lively account documents the history of the more than 40,000 women who serve...
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107,71 |
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Russia in War and Revolution: General William V. Judson's Accounts from Petrograd, 1917-1918
ISBN: 9780873385978 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. General William V. Judson was Military Attache and Chief of the American Military Mission in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. His letters, memoranda, and reports constitute one of the most informed eye-witness accounts of war and revolutionary conditions under the Provisional and Bolshevik Governments of Russia after the February Uprising and abdication of Czar Nicholas II and shed light on the initiation of U.S.-Soviet relations. Judson's overriding task was to keep Russia in the war against Germany. His official communications pay particular attention to the... General William V. Judson was Military Attache and Chief of the American Military Mission in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. His le... |
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200,80 |
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Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1919
ISBN: 9780873386371 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda represents the most recent and most extensive research on Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe), one of the "press lords" who influenced British politics and policy during the First World War. Thompson's is the only study to deal with Northcliffe and the inseparable quality of his public and political career from his journalism. Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda addresses a wide range of topics--the Great War, journalism, propaganda, censorship, the use and misuse of power, his preoccupation with America, and Northcliffe's influence on David Lloyd...
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda represents the most recent and most extensive research on Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe), one of the "pre...
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161,63 |
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Armistice 1918
ISBN: 9780873386517 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The five armistices arranged in the fall of 1918 determined the course of diplomatic events for many years. The armistice with Germany, the most important of the five, was really a peace treaty in miniature. Bullitt Lowry, basing his account on a close study of newly available archives in Great Britain, France, and the United States, offers a detailed examination of the process by which what might have been only simple orders to cease fire instead became extensive diplomatic and military instructions to armies and governments. He also assesses the work of the leading figures in the profess,...
The five armistices arranged in the fall of 1918 determined the course of diplomatic events for many years. The armistice with Germany, the most impor...
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117,50 |
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Drafting the Russian Nation
ISBN: 9780875803067 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did Russia develop a modern national identity, and what role did the military play? Joshua Sanborn examines tsarist and Soviet armies of the early twentieth century to show how military conscription helped to bind citizens and soldiers into a modern political community. The experience of total war, he shows, provided the means by which this multiethnic and multiclass community was constructed and tested. Drafting the Russian Nation is the first archivally based study of the relationship between military conscription and nation-building in a European country. Stressing the importance of...
How did Russia develop a modern national identity, and what role did the military play? Joshua Sanborn examines tsarist and Soviet armies of the early...
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587,73 |
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Flying for the Air Service: The Hughes Brothers in World War 1
ISBN: 9780879727628 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Flying for the Air Service" provides a realistic picture of the typical flying experiences of the pilots who flew for the fledgling American Air Service during World War I. The narrative describes two brothers from Boston, George and Gerard Hughes, as they progress from apprentice pilots to flight instructors and combat pilots. After completing their pilot training program together, both were assigned as instructors. Then George was sent to France with the 12th Aero Squadrom, where he flew two-place observation aircraft over the front lines. Gerard, meanwhile, remained in America,...
"Flying for the Air Service" provides a realistic picture of the typical flying experiences of the pilots who flew for the fledgling American Air Serv...
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96,15 |
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Over There
ISBN: 9780890967911 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It does not take long to tell the difference in the sound of the explosion of a gas, shrapnel, or high explosive shell," Carl Andrew Brannen said of his introduction to trench warfare. As that nineteen-year-old marine from Texas had quickly learned, the first big war of the twentieth century promised new horrors on the battlefield. In this intense journey through the beginnings of modern war, C. A. Brannen's memoirs and battlefield snapshots are complemented with a unique set of contemporary and retrospective photographs. Seventy-five years after World War I, the author's son retraced his...
"It does not take long to tell the difference in the sound of the explosion of a gas, shrapnel, or high explosive shell," Carl Andrew Brannen said of ...
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72,12 |
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Wooden Ships from Texas: A World War 1 Saga
ISBN: 9780890968277 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting in 1916, Texans built seventeen four- and five-masted sailing ships out of East Texas pine, making a significant contribution in World War I. The ships' careers carried them to Europe, South America, both American coasts, and even eighty miles up the Danube River.
In "Wooden Ships from Texas, " Richard W. Bricker brings to light this fascinating, but little-known, period in Texas maritime history. Bricker unearthed a considerable quantity of archival material, allowing him to describe them and make at least a partial career tracking of each vessel. The first ship built was... Starting in 1916, Texans built seventeen four- and five-masted sailing ships out of East Texas pine, making a significant contribution in World War I....
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122,40 |
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Soissons, 1918
ISBN: 9780890968932 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It is the last five percent of possible exertion that often wins the battle." Brigadier Gen. Hanson Ely's statement best exemplifies the efforts of his troops as part of the allied contingent at the Battle of Soissons, July 18-22, 1918. At a cost of more than twelve thousand soldiers and marines dead, wounded, and missing, American troops struck the Germans with such force that the Germans lost the initiative for the remainder of the war. """Soissons"," 1918" provides an intricately detailed account of this pivotal battle in which partly trained, inexperienced American soldiers and... "It is the last five percent of possible exertion that often wins the battle." Brigadier Gen. Hanson Ely's statement best exemplifies the efforts... |
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122,40 |
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The United States, Revolutionary Russia, and the Rise of Czechoslavakia
ISBN: 9780890969311 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia set the stage on which Woodrow Wilson had to direct U.S. policy toward Czechoslovakia as it sought liberation in the early twentieth century.
Betty Unterberger's now classic study of the ferment of this period and the way President Wilson dealt with it gives insight into both Great Power relations and the next eighty years of developments in Central Europe. A decade after the original publication of "The ""United States"," Revolutionary ""Russia"," and the Rise of ""Czechoslovakia"," " Unterberger has added an updated introduction... The First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia set the stage on which Woodrow Wilson had to direct U.S. policy toward Czechoslovakia as it...
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97,90 |
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Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine
ISBN: 9780891415930 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mackin's memoirs are a haunting portrayal of war in the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front.
Mackin's memoirs are a haunting portrayal of war in the tradition of All Quiet on the Western Front.
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84,78 |
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The Great War and the French People
ISBN: 9780907582533 / Angielski / Miękka / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A well-known authority in the field provides a wide-ranging exploration of the repercussions of the First World War upon the French people. A well-known authority in the field provides a wide-ranging exploration of the repercussions of the First World War upon the French people. |
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201,01 |
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Italian Military Aviation in World War I 1914-1918
ISBN: 9780972029612 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mehtidis chronicles the air orders of battle for the Italian military in World War I, including army, naval, and balloon units. An appendix contains a glossary and abbreviations, a list of Italian airships during the war, notes, and a bibliography for further reading.
Mehtidis chronicles the air orders of battle for the Italian military in World War I, including army, naval, and balloon units. An appendix contains a...
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96,30 |
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The US Army in World War I - Orders of Battle
ISBN: 9780972029643 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A complete Orders of Battle for all U.S. Army combat units during World War I. Intended for the serious student of military history, the book is both compact and comprehensive.
A complete Orders of Battle for all U.S. Army combat units during World War I. Intended for the serious student of military history, the book is both ...
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96,30 |
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Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika
ISBN: 9781400075263 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the First World War breaks out, the British navy is committed to engaging the enemy wherever there is water to float a ship--even if the body of water in question is a remote African lake and the enemy an intimidating fleet of German steamers. The leader of this improbable mission is Geoffrey Spicer-Simson whose navy career thus far had been distinguished by two sinkings. His seemingly impossible charge: to trek overland through the African bush hauling Mimi and Toutou--two forty-foot mahogany gunboats-with a band of cantankerous, insubordinate Scotsmen, Irishmen and Englishmen to defeat...
When the First World War breaks out, the British navy is committed to engaging the enemy wherever there is water to float a ship--even if the body of ...
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61,66 |
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The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War
ISBN: 9781403904331 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The First World War continues to fascinate. Its profound effect on politics and society is still felt today. Yet it remains a greatly misunderstood conflict, shrouded in myths and misperceptions. In The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War Philpott and Hughes, leading young historians of the conflict, draw on recent scholarship to present a clear introduction to the war. In fifty maps, accompanied by supporting text and statistical tables, they survey the main battles and political features of the war. This concise volume will give students and general readers important...
The First World War continues to fascinate. Its profound effect on politics and society is still felt today. Yet it remains a greatly misunderstood co...
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201,24 |
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The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War
ISBN: 9781403904348 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The First World War continues to fascinate. Its profound effect on politics and society is still felt today. Yet it remains a greatly misunderstood conflict, shrouded in myths and misperceptions. In The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War Philpott and Hughes, leading young historians of the conflict, draw on recent scholarship to present a clear introduction to the war. In fifty maps, accompanied by supporting text and statistical tables, they survey the main battles and political features of the war. This concise volume will give students and general readers important...
The First World War continues to fascinate. Its profound effect on politics and society is still felt today. Yet it remains a greatly misunderstood co...
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221,37 |
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The Jewish Legion During the First World War
ISBN: 9781403939210 / Angielski / Twarda / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the autumn of 1917, the British government established three batallions of infantry, for the reception of non-nationalized Russian Jews. Known colloquially as the Jewish Legion, the batallions served in Egypt and Palestine, before their eventual disbandment in the late spring of 1921. By drawing on the testimonies of over 600 veterans, this unique unit is analyzed from within its political and social context, thus providing fresh insights into Anglo-Jewish relations during the early twentieth century.
In the autumn of 1917, the British government established three batallions of infantry, for the reception of non-nationalized Russian Jews. Known coll...
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402,53 |
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"Work or Fight!": Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One
ISBN: 9781403961754 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During World War I, the US demanded that all able-bodied adult men "work or fight." But fighting was mostly assigned to single white men who were not engaged in "productive" work. White men who were proper husbands and fathers, owned property, or worked at approved jobs, and who participated in civic activities, had the full benefits of citizenship without fighting. Women, men of color, and poor white men were often barred from achieving these benefits. This book uses the records of local draft boards and state draft officials in Georgia, New Jersey, Illinois, and California to tell the...
During World War I, the US demanded that all able-bodied adult men "work or fight." But fighting was mostly assigned to single white men who were not ...
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201,24 |
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