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"The drama of August, 1914, a month of battle in which war was waged on a scale unsurpassed, and whose results determined the shape of the world in which we live today."--Jacket.
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with...
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English
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"It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War. But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. He can no longer keep a secret and has finally found the courage to unburden himself of it. As Tristan recounts the horrific details of what to him became a senseless war, he also speaks...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 657 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of hardship and sacrifice, of young, mud-spattered men in water-logged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts by a few feet of dirt. Long considered the most futile arena of the First World War, the Western Front has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of life. In this epic narrative...
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Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the difficult and bloody four-month battle that tipped the stalemate on the Western Front in favor of the Allies in 1918 and drove back the Germans, bringing World War I to an end.
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Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
xv, 493 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"As U.S. involvement continues to be a controversial factor in contemporary conflicts around the world, The Doughboys establishes the genesis of America's internationalist role in war and in peacetime held throughout most of the 20th century. Against the background of the entrenched isolationist sentiments of the early 1900s, The Doughboys examines how America overcame its reluctance to join what was seen as an Old World conflict and become involved...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Loosely based on true episodes, this film tells the story of German, French, and Scottish soldiers in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge. Follows a French lieutenant, a Scottish priest, and a German tenor and his beloved Danish soprano as music and the spirit of Christmas create bonds between enemies.
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English
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In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sisters, join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their fathers farm and carrying a guilty secret with them. Though they are used to tending the sick, nothing could have prepared them for what they confront, first on a hospital ship near Gallipoli, then on the Western Front. Yet amid the carnage, the sisters become the friends they never were at home and find themselves courageous...
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xxi, [21], 688 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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This book brings attention to the war's ominous end--the Allies incomplete victory , and the tragic ramifications for world peace just two decades later. It addresses the role of the Russian Revolution, industrial mobilization, economics, logistics and technological innovation.
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Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[English edition]
Physical Desc
56 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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"Jules and Jim are best friends. They play together. They go to school together. They grow up together. Through it all, Jim is always a little ahead of Jules-a little faster, a little stronger. So, when Canada goes to war against Germany in 1914, Jim is the first to volunteer, but Jules is right behind him. They fight together. They battle the cold and the mud of the trenches together. But in the end, only one of them will see the Armistice begin...
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Library of America volume 222
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1257 p., [64] p. of plates : ill., col. maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Guns of August (1962), a riveting account of the outbreak of World War I and the weeks of fighting leading up to the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914. Tuchman dramatizes the diplomatic debacles that precipitated the war and the intransigence of the German and French armies as they dogmatically adhered to their battle plans, with disastrous consequences. Interwoven with her vivid re-creation of the German march through Belgium into France...
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