History of War

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Author: Roger L. Ransom Publisher: Cambridge University Press Price: £31.99 Roger L. Ransom’s book fills a gap on the groaning shelves of World War I histories, by arguing that these four years of massive bloodshed resulted overwhelmingly from an eco

The Christian Science Monitor

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World War I may have ended a century ago, but many of the issues that swirled around it remain highly relevant even now. Monitor writers took a look at nine of those topics and how they still reverberate today.

India Today

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At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the "guns of August" finally fell silent in many parts of the world, bringing to an end one of the most destructive wars in the human history. The First World War resulted in ove

The Guardian

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Black and Asian troops fought beside white comrades – but after the armistice came the violent return of racial subjugation

History of War

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Author: Jonathan Fennell Publisher: Cambridge University Press Price: £25.00 With the centenary of Word War I now drawing to a close, it’s possible to take stock of the plethora of books that have been published on the conflict in the past four year

History of War

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Author: Charles Emmerson Publisher: Bodley Head Price: £25 Released: 05 September By 1917 the Great War had been raging for almost three years. Millions had been killed or mutilated in an industrial conflict in exchange for little gain. Yet, 1917 wa

Land Rover Monthly

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HERE at LRM we have covered several Battlefields by 4x4 tours in the past including their Calais Taster Day (an introduction to greenlaning in France), 1917 Battle of Arras, D-Day Anniversary Special and the 1916 Battle of the Somme. Each tour is ver

Antique Trader

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – When the first World War exploded in the late summer of 1914, armies took the field in bright uniforms and navies steamed to sea flying the colors of their nations. For the ensuing years of global war until the peace treaty was sig

History of War

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“THE FIRST WORLD WAR REMEMBERED PROVIDES A FULL, ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT, GIVING A FANTASTIC INTRODUCTION FOR THOSE NEW TO THE PERIOD, AS WELL AS GENUINE INSIGHT FOR THOSE MORE FAMILIAR WITH IT” From the Christmas Truce of 1914 to the Ar

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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Artificial Intelligence is one thing. Artificial morality is another. It may sound something like this: "First, we believe in the strong defense of the United States and we want the people who defend it to have access to the nation's best technology,

History of War

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The Paris Peace Conference was the primary means by which politicians sought to reshape the world after the end of World War I. It was a chance for powers that felt they had been marginalised to assert their independence, and an opportunity for imper

History of War

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Author: Richard van Emden Publisher: Pen & Sword Price: £25.00 By the end of World War I in November 1918, the Allies and Central Powers had spent $82.4 billion (roughly $2 trillion in 2018 dollars) in a conflict that saw the mobilisation of nearly 7

History of War

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Author: Santanu Das Publisher: Cambridge University Press Price: £19.99 (paperback) With the centenary of World War I, a plethora of new books have been published on just about every aspect of the conflict, from the Battle of Liège to the Armistice a

History of War

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Author: George Morton-Jack Publisher: Little, Brown Price: £25.00 The considerable contribution made by India to the British war effort during both world wars has sadly been neglected by historians. Thankfully, in recent years a number of new studies

History of War

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‘WHEN THE SWORD IS ONCE DRAWN, THE PASSIONS OF MEN OBSERVE NO BOUNDS OF MODERATION” American Historian Gerald J. Meyer’s account of the start of World War I has been released at a most auspicious moment, as the centenary of the armistice that ended

Military History

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Matthew Naylor, president and CEO of the National World War I Museum and Memorial [theworldwar.org] in Kansas City, Mo., also sits on the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission [worldwar1centennial.org], which since its establishment by Congress in 2

History of War

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Author: Greg Bruce Publisher: Austin Macauley Price: £11.99 Orthopaedic surgeon Greg Bruce was recruited into the Royal Australian Air Force Specialist Reserve in 1988 and undertook ten deployments between 1995 and 2008. Sad Joys On Deployment is Br

History of War

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Published by the Royal Armouries, this book benefits from that institution’s immense collection of artefacts and photographs. This is a generously illustrated book – in fact the emphasis is often on the pictures rather than the words (many of the pho

NPR

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An exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum features art and artifacts from World War I. It includes paintings by combat artists and images of carvings found on the walls of underground quarries.

History of War

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Authors: Mark Connelly and Stefan Goebel Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: £18.99 Within months of the outbreak of the Great War, Ypres witnessed the first of a series of devastating battles that endured until the end of hostilities in Novem

The Guardian

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Patriotic fervour greeted Australia’s entry in 1914. By the time of the armistice on 11 November 1918, the country was marred by rancour

All About History

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Author David Stevenson Publisher Oxford University Press Price £14.99 Released Out now Originally published in hardback in 2017, Oxford University Press has now released the paperback version of David Stevenson’s masterful study. Stevenson has writ

History Revealed

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bit.ly/2B76Osc The conflict that engulfed much of the world from 1914 to 1918 had a huge military cost – but it also reshaped British society forever. In this podcast from 2018, historian Maggie Andrews considers how civilian life changed as World Wa

Country Life

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In 1943, pacifist school teacher-turned-SOE agent Harry Rée was dropped into occupied France, where he carried out dramatic sabotage operations with local resistance workers. He always made light of his wartime experiences and kept his writings about

Metal Hammer UK

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Joakim: “The Battle of Flers-Courcelette in 1916 was the first time tanks were used in war. There were 32 British tanks – Mark I, or ‘Mother’. There should have been more, but some of them broke down. The Great War marked the end of ‘old’ warfare and

History of War

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Publisher: PSC Games Price: £70.00 To commemorate the final centenary year of WWI, PSC Games has released a new version of its popular military board game The Great War. Inside the box you’ll find 150 1/100th scale plastic infantry figures representi

Traces

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During both world wars, Australia was confronted with a most challenging problem on its home front; what should be done with the thousands of ‘enemy aliens’ living in Australia? That is, the people who had migrated to Australia from the nations with

The Railway Magazine

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THIS year sees the centenary of the end of the First World War. Railways played a crucial and differing role in each of the two major global conflicts of the 20th century. Trench warfare was a prime strategy in the First World War, with narrow-gaug

NPR

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The U.S. was a reluctant entrant into World War I. But when America joined the battle 100 years ago, on April 6, 1917, it transformed a small military in a major international force almost overnight.

Literary Hub

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We Have Ways of Making You Talk is a weekly show exploring the war in close up, hosted by comedian Al Murray and historian James Holland as they discuss all matters Second World War. Writer and academic Jeremy Black joins James Holland and Al Murray