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Löschnigg, Martin. "How to Tell the War? Trench Warfare and the Realist Paradigm in First World War Narratives". Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, n.º 27/3 (17 de septiembre de 2018): 143–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.27.3.07.
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This paper will analyze how memoirs and novels of the First World War reflect the challenges which modern warfare poses to realist narrative. Mechanized warfare resists the narrative encoding of experience. In particular, the nature of warfare on the Western Front 1914–1918, characterized by the fragmentation of vision in the trenches and the exposure of soldiers to a continuous sequence of acoustic shocks, had a disruptive effect on perceptions of time and space, and consequently on the rendering of the chronotope in narrative accounts of the fighting. Under the conditions of the Western Front, the order-creating and meaning-creating function of narrative seemed to have become suspended. As I want to show, these challenges account for a fundamental ambivalence in memoirs and novels which have largely been regarded as paradigmatically ‘realistic’ and ‘authentic’ anti-war narratives. Their documentary impetus, i.e. the claim to tell the ‘truth’ about the war, is often countered by textual fragmentation and a “cinematic telescoping of time” (Williams 29), i.e. by a structure which implies that such a ‘truth’ could not really be articulated. In consequence, these texts also explore the relationship between fact and fiction in the attempt at rendering an authentic account of the modern war experience. My examples are Edmund Blunden’s Undertones of War (1928), Robert Graves’s Goodbye to All That (1929) and the novel Generals Die in Bed (1930) by the Canadian Charles Yale Harrison, as well as German examples like Ernst Jünger’s In Stahlgewittern (1920; The Storm of Steel, 1929), Ludwig Renn’s Krieg (1928; War, 1929) and Edlef Köppen’s Heeresbericht (1930; Higher Command, 1931).
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Vorobyeva, O. V. y F. V. Nikolai. "DIGITAL FRONT: WORLD WAR I IN COMPUTER GAMES". Вестник Пермского университета. История, n.º 4(59) (2022): 129–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2219-3111-2022-4-129-139.
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The article presents a brief overview of contemporary discussions on the transformation of historical memory in digital culture, and above all in video games. The representation of the heroic and tragic narratives in games, most often related to World War II and World War I, respectively, differs significantly. The former uses a realistic strategy of representation and emphasizes visual detailing, linear plot construction, and the synchronization of in-game, fictional, and historical time. Authenticity is perceived here through the realism of details. The tragic narrative uses a deconstructivist strategy of representation, characterized by animated or impressionistic graphics and by positioning war itself as the main enemy, not national armies or individual soldiers. Thus, authenticity is understood through a reference to the existential nature of the war experience. The realistic strategy prevails in contemporary popular culture, but the heroic narrative is increasingly intertwined with the tragic. As a result, the balance between the desire to normalize the war and its problematization shifts significantly in the space of culture. The article analyzes Western historiography by examining the games “Verdun 1914–1918”, “The Trenches", "Brave Hearts” and others. The authors conclude that the influence of digital culture and video games on the perceptions of the past cannot be reduced exclusively to consumerism or the popularization of academic knowledge. It implies an active transformation of the very ways of interacting with the past, a change in established genre norms, an increase in interactivity, democratization, and aestheticization. These trends are inextricably linked with broader transformations of the modes of historicity in public consciousness at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Salevouris, Michael. "Bourne, Britain And The Great War, 1914-1914". Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 17, n.º 1 (1 de abril de 1992): 41–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.17.1.41-42.
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"War," said Thomas Paine, "involves in its progress such a train of unforseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end." History is replete with examples of wars that didn't exactly go as planners planned, but one conflict above all, the "Great War" of 1914-1918, has been responsible for our contemporary fear of the "unforseen and unsupposed circumstances" of war. The short, heroic, victorious war that most Europeans foresaw in August, 1914, became an unimaginable tragedy that buried a generation in the mud of the western front. It is, therefore, not surprising that books on World War I continue to flow from the presses.
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Vidojković, Dario. "Early Representations of Wartime Violence in Films, 1914–1930". Cultural History 6, n.º 1 (abril de 2017): 37–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cult.2017.0134.
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This article deals with the cinematic representations of warfare violence and with its aestheticization in early films. It argues, in particular, that the patterns and narrative structures of (anti-)war movies were laid out during the First World War. Among the first films establishing those patterns and rules were D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, a film on the American Civil War, and Hearts of the World, showing the war on the western front, produced in 1918. Films such as these offered the main elements that would mark, henceforth, how anti-war movies would portray violence. With the up-coming of sound, moviegoers would be able not only to see, but also to hear what a war sounded like. Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), one of the first sound films, exposed the audiences to a series of (calculated) audio/visual distortions, including explosions, screams, and the monotone sound of machinegun fire.
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Astashov, A. B. "MOBILIZATION AND SANITATION AT THE RUSSIAN ARMY HOME FRONT IN 1914–1918: SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS". Вестник Пермского университета. История, n.º 2(53) (2021): 27–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2219-3111-2021-2-27-37.
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Written on the basis of archival sources drawn for the first time, the article is devoted to the problem of changing the sanitary and ecological conditions of the theatre of military operations at the Russian front during the First World War. The aim of the article is to analyze the sanitary and hygienic state of the theatre of military operations on the western outskirts of Russia during the First World War and the factors of its deterioration; to evaluate the effectiveness of combating the negative aspects of the sanitary state of the front-line territory; to identify the actual environmental practices of the front-line territory and their interrelation with the social aspects of the struggle for the improvement of the territory in conditions of total war. The focus is on the pre-war sanitary situation in the western region of Russia, reflecting its cultural and socio-political peculiarities, its exacerbation during the war and mobilization, as well as sanitary and hygienic measures taken both in eliminating epidemics of contagious diseases and in "sanitating" the front-line territory. The issue is considered in the light of total war, which formed a unified, front and rear, landscape of sanitary hazards. Attention is paid to the activities of society, bureaucracy and military commanders, who generally succeeded in transforming the belligerent landscape and localizing the spread of disease. The technical activities of the engineering and sanitary services of the front and rear are described in detail. The author concludes that the Great War was an important impulse and frontier in solving the problem of improving the ecological condition of Russia's western outskirts. During the war, the belligerent landscape was transformed into an anthropogenic landscape, becoming the basis for the area's future infrastructure in terms of sanitation and hygiene
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Hudgins, Nicole. "Art and Death in French Photographs of Ruins, 1914-1918". Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 42, n.º 3 (1 de diciembre de 2016): 51–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2016.420304.
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The avalanche of ruin photography in the archives, albums, publications, and propaganda of World War I France challenges us to understand what functions such images fulfilled beyond their use as visual documentation. Did wartime images of ruin continue the European tradition of ruiniste art that went back hundreds of years? Or did their violence represent a break from the past? This article explores how ruin photography of the period fits into a larger aesthetic heritage in France, and how the depiction of ruins (religious, industrial, residential, etc.) on the French side of the Western Front provided means of expressing the shock and grief resulting from the unprecedented human losses of the war. Using official and commercial photographs of the period, the article resituates ruin photography as an aesthetic response to war, a symbol of human suffering, and a repository of rage.
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PURSEIGLE, PIERRE. "‘A Wave on to Our Shores’: The Exile and Resettlement of Refugees from the Western Front, 1914–1918". Contemporary European History 16, n.º 4 (noviembre de 2007): 427–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777307004109.
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AbstractIn the wake of the German invasion of Belgium and France in August 1914, four million persons went into exile. While such a displacement of population testified to a dramatic change in the character of war in western Europe, historiography and collective memory alike have so far concurred in marginalising the experience of refugees during the First World War. This article examines their unprecedented encounter with host communities in France and Great Britain. It demonstrates that the refugees' plight reveals the strengths as well as the tensions inherent in the process of social mobilisation that was inseparable from the First World War.
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Madigan, Edward. "‘Sticking to a Hateful Task’: Resilience, Humour, and British Understandings of Combatant Courage, 1914–1918". War in History 20, n.º 1 (enero de 2013): 76–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344512455900.
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In the years that immediately preceded the outbreak of the First World War, a willingness to die, and die well, in pursuit of a noble objective was lauded as the ultimate act of courage by a diverse range of commentators across the United Kingdom. The story of the deaths of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his companions on their return from the South Pole in 1911 inspired effusive references to medieval chivalry and Christian sacrifice, and seemed to offer welcome proof that an ancient form of British courage was still very much alive in the twentieth century. This article explores British conceptions of combatant courage during the First World War as understood by the civilian population on the home front and the junior officers and men who bore the brunt of the fighting on the Western Front. Drawing on often overlooked sources that shed light on troop culture, it argues that while neither group rejected the pre-war paradigm, each embraced a conception of courage that was informed by its own distinctive needs and experiences. Chivalry and dignified self-sacrifice resonated strongly with civilians who suffered unprecedented levels of bereavement and understood their nation’s role in the war as righteous and just. For the soldiers who served in the front lines of an attritional trench war in which personal agency was greatly reduced, a robust rejection of victimhood and an emphasis on perseverance, articulately expressed through humour, became the new ideal of courage.
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Ladygina, Yuliya. "Beyond the Trenches: Ol'ha Kobylians'ka’s Literary Response to the First World War". East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 2, n.º 2 (8 de septiembre de 2015): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.21226/t2s888.
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<p class="EW-abstract"><strong>Abstract:</strong> Ol'ha Kobylians'ka’s short stories about the First World War constitute a rare case of a Ukrainian woman writing on one of the greatest catastrophes in modern history, a subject neglected even in Ukraine. Drawing on recent scholarship on First World War literature, this research proves that Kobylians'ka’s war stories deserve a re-evaluation, not as long-ignored curiosities from the pen of Ukraine’s most sophisticated writer of the time, but as insightful psychological studies of Western Ukrainians and as valuable cultural documents that present an original perspective on the common European experience of 1914-1918. The article pays particular attention to Kobylians'ka’s creative assessment of the Austrian and Russian treatment of Western Ukrainians during different stages of the First World War, which exposes anew fatal political weaknesses in Europe’s old imperial order and facilitates a better understanding of why Ukrainians, like many other ethnic groups in Europe without a state of their own, began to pursue their national goals more aggressively as the war progressed. Alongside popular texts, such as “Na zustrich doli” (“To Meet Their Fate,” 1917), “Iuda” (“Judas,” 1917), and “Lyst zasudzhenoho voiaka do svoiei zhinky” (“A Letter from a Convicted Soldier to His Wife,” 1917), this article examines Kobylians'ka’s three little-known stories—“Lisova maty” (“The Forest Mother,” 1915), “Shchyra liubov” (“Sincere Love,” 1916), and “Vasylka” (“Vasylka,” 1922)—thus presenting the most complete analysis of Kobylians'ka’s war fiction in any language.</p><p class="EW-Keyword">Keywords: Modernist Literature, Literature of the First World War, Women Writings of the First World War, Ol'ha Kobylians'ka’s War Fiction</p>
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Barford, Paul. "Three Publications about Archaeology of a Segment of the First World War's Forgotten Eastern Front". Archaeologia Polona 59 (20 de diciembre de 2021): 189–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.23858/apa59.2021.2869.
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While the horrors of the trench warfare on the Western Front in Belgium and France are part of the European cultural memory, to some degree the much more extensive and mobile Eastern Front of the 1914–1918 conflict has become the forgotten front (Die vergessene Front). Although for just over eleven months in 1914/15, the central part of a major front, some 1000 km long on which three million people died ran through the middle of what is now Poland, for a number of reasons the memory of this has there been all but erased from memory and from the cultural landscape.
The reviewed three volumes are the result of a project that has attempted to address the poor state of historical memory of the momentous events and human drama that took place a century earlier on the segment of the front, 55 km west of Warsaw. Here, from mid-December 1914, the Russian Imperial army tried to hold back the eastward advance of the German troops on defences built along the Bzura and Rawka rivers. For the next seven months, the fighting here took the form of the same type of prolonged static trench warfare more familiar on the Western Front (the only place in the eastern sphere of war that this happened). The German army made every effort (including mining and several major gas attacks), to advance on Warsaw but failed to break through. It was only after the Great Retreat of the Russian army in the summer of 1915 that these defences were overrun and Warsaw fell.
Tesis sobre el tema "World War 1914-1918 – Western Front – Fiction"
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Kempshall, Chris. "Unwilling allies? : Tommy-Poilu relations on the Western Front 1914-1918". Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45092/.
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This thesis examines the relationships and interactions between British and French soldiers on the Western Front of the First World War. To date the historical approaches to inter-allied relations has been predominantly focused on those interactions taking place at governmental or command levels. Whilst previous studies have touched on the relations between common soldiers, this has often been within specific case studies. I have drawn particularly on the contemporary diaries, letters and written records of British soldiers within the Imperial War Museum and also the postal censorship records of the French army at the Archives de l'armee de terre in order to trace the nature and evolution of these relations across the war. My study covers the time-period of 1914-1918 and focuses on periods of sustained contact in 1914, 1916 and 1918. This focus shows that the arrival of Kitchener's New Armies in 1915-16 was a crucial development in forming strong relations between British and French soldiers. British military command took little interest and made no substantial plans for ensuring friendly relations between soldiers of the two armies and, as a result, these early interactions were largely self-directed by the soldiers. They were also driven by the apparent insecurities of the British volunteer soldiers who viewed themselves as being less accomplished than their French fellows, who were largely well-disposed to welcoming and teaching the new British arrivals in order to achieve swift victory. I argue that, although serendipitous in nature, this uneven starting point allowed relations between British and French armies to evolve positively whilst allowing both sides to maintain a sense of their own national identity without having to overly sacrifice their own ideals. However, the French desire for a decisive victory and a professional response in the trenches led to a rupture in Tommy-Poilu relations following the British failures in 1918. This changed the dynamic between the two nations in the build up to, and aftermath of, the armistice and provided a prelude to the difficult inter-war relationships at governmental levels.
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Robbins, Simon Nicholas. "British generalship on the Western Front in the First World War, 1914-1918". Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/british-generalship-on-the-western-front-in-the-first-world-war-19141918(0a036537-cf52-4df2-8085-8b35c6958d80).html.
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Dye, Peter John. "Air power's midwife : logistics support for Royal Flying Corps operations on the Western Front 1914-1918". Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4845/.
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The development of the British air weapon on the Western Front during the First World War represented a revolution in the way that national resources were employed in exploiting a technological opportunity to achieve tactical and operational advantage. Logistic competence was the precondition for air superiority and the 'modern style of warfare' — indirect, predicted artillery fire. The Royal Flying Corps' logistic staffs, led by Brigadier-General Robert Brooke-Popham, demonstrated considerable agility in meeting the demands of three-dimensional warfare. Sustaining adequate numbers of front-line aircraft required substantial numbers of skilled and semi-skilled personnel, located largely beyond the battle zone, operating at a continuously high tempo while coping with rapid technological change and high wastage. These elements formed a complex, dynamic and integrated network that was also partly self-sustaining, in the form of salvage and repair, with the ability to compensate for shortfalls in aircraft and aero-engine production as well as unpredictable demand. The logistic principles developed on the Western Front provided the foundation for Royal Air Force success in the Second World War and anticipated the management practices that underpin today's global supply chain - as well as demonstrating the enduring interdependence of logistics and air power.
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Regan, Patrick Michael Humanities & Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Neglected Australians : prisoners of war from the Western Front, 1916-1918". Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38686.
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About 3850 men of the First Australian Imperial Force were captured on the Western Front in France and Belgium between April 1916 and November 1918. They were mentioned only briefly in the volumes of the Official Histories, and have been overlooked in many subsequent works on Australia and the First World War. Material in the Australian War Memorial has been used to address aspects of the experiences of these neglected men, in particular the Statements that some of them completed after their release This thesis will investigate how their experiences ran counter to the narratives of CEW Bean and others, and seeks to give them their place in Australia???s Twentieth Century experience of war.
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Prieto, Sara. "War Reportage in the Liminal Zone: Anglo-American Eyerwitness Accounts from the Western Front (1914-1918)". Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/88290.
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Esta tesis se propone lleva a cabo un análisis de gran alcance del periodismo literario escrito entre 1914 y 1918. Para ello, explora dieciséis obras escritas por autores británicos y norteamericanos que están situadas en una zona liminal desde un punto de vista físico, genérico, temporal y espacial. Los textos estudiados son: First from the Front (Harold Ashton 1914), With the Allies (Richard Harding Davis 1914), Fighting in Flanders (Alexander Powell 1914), The Soul of the War (Philip Gibbs 1915), Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front (Arnold Bennett 1915), France at War (Rudyard Kipling 1915), Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front (Mary Roberts Rinehart 1915), A Journal of Impressions in Belgium (May Sinclair 1915), Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (Edith Wharton 1915), A Visit to Three Fronts: Glimpses of the British, Italian and French Lines (Arthur Conan Doyle 1916), With the British on the Somme (William Beach Thomas 1917), My Round of the War (Basil Clarke 1917), The Turning Point: The Battle of the Somme (Harry Perry Robinson 1917), The Glory of the Coming: What Mine Eyes Have Seen of Americans in Action in This Year of Grace and Allied Endeavor (Irvin S. Cobb 1918), And They Thought We Wouldn’t Fight (Floyd Gibbons 1918) y A Reporter at Armageddon: Letters from the Front and Behind the Lines of the Great War (Will Irwin 1918). El viaje físico que llevó a estos periodistas a la zona bélica y las características de dicho viaje permiten agrupar los textos que resultaron de estas expediciones bajo un mismo marco teórico-antropológico. Este marco teórico se basa en las teorías sobre liminalidad tal y como las articuló originalmente Arnold van Gennep en Los Ritos de Paso (1909), que fueron más tarde desarrolladas por Victor Turner. Además de clasificar, contextualizar y discutir críticamente un conjunto de obras que no han sido comparadas con anterioridad, este estudio da respuesta a cuatro preguntas fundamentales: en primer lugar, esta tesis investiga si los textos analizados responden a los marcos críticos con los que hemos aprendido a interpretar la guerra, sobre todo en lo referente al concepto de “el mito de la guerra” establecido por Samuel Hynes en su estudio A War Imagined. En segundo lugar, esta tesis evalúa si algunos de los cambios retóricos y estilísticos que Paul Fussell identificó en la literatura de los combatientes se pueden encontrar en los textos analizados. Asimismo, atiende al desarrollo cronológico de la guerra y evalúa si existe una variación en el modo en que ésta fue representada a medida que avanzó el conflicto. En tercer lugar, el estudio adopta una perspectiva comparatista, confrontando los textos escritos desde ambos lados del Atlántico, para determinar hasta qué punto la nacionalidad de los autores y la postura de sus países en un estadio concreto de la guerra afectó a su forma de escribir. Finalmente, se propone determinar si existen diferencias sustanciales en la forma en que hombres y mujeres concibieron y retrataron su experiencia liminal en el frente.
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Whittle, Eric Yvon. "British casualties on the Western Front 1914-1918 and their influence on the military conduct of the Second World War". Thesis, University of Leicester, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/4726.
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It is often asserted that British army casualties in the Great War were carelessly incurred and that this influenced the way Britain fought in the Second World War. Manpower was a prime resource in the mobilisation for total war but its scarcity only fully realised by end of 1917 when the army was cautioned about casualties. The government, however, had feared an early popular reaction against mounting casualties. It did not materialise: the incidence of casualties was diffused over time, and households had no mass media spreading intimate awareness of battlefield conditions. The army itself never mutinied over casualties or refused to fight. The country considered the casualties grievous but not inordinate or unnecessary. Between the wars unemployment and 'consumerism' mattered more to people than memories of the Great War., kept ritually alive by annual Armistice Day services. Welfare benefits increased, more children went to secondary school but social and political change was tardy. Many intellectuals turned pacifist but Nazi Germany made an anti-war-stance difficult. Air raids rather than memories of Great War casualties preoccupied the nation as it armed for war. In the Second World War army casualty lists were not regularly lengthy until the beginning of 1944 and did not have an adverse impact on civilian morale. The manpower shortage became acute earlier, in 1942, and army commanders were alerted to replacement problems. Politically, Churchill desired a strong, victorious British army but lack of men induced caution about casualties, particularly in relation to the invasion of Normandy, involving frontal amphibious attack on the German army. This caution communicated itself to the citizen armies in the field, which showed little natural bent for soldiering. These circumstances governed the way the army fought in the Second World War, not memories of Great War casualties - which were more numerous because of the extent over time and scale of the fighting.
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Brown, Ian Malcolm. "The evolution of the British Army's logistical and administrative infrastructure and its influence on GHQ's operational and strategic decision-making on the Western Front, 1914-1918". Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1996. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-evolution-of-the-british-armys-logistical-and-administrative-infrastructure-and-its-influence-on-ghqs-operational-and-strategic-decisionmaking-on-the-western-front-19141918(3c32643e-dcd3-47c4-9f7b-b5242ccf55c8).html.
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Millar, John Dermot History Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "A study in the limitations of command : General Sir William Birdwood and the A.I.F., 1914-1918". Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of History, 1993. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38742.
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Military command is the single most important factor in the conduct of warfare. To understand war and military success and failure, historians need to explore command structures and the relationships between commanders. In World War I, a new level of higher command had emerged: the corps commander. Between 1914 and 1918, the role of corps commanders and the demands placed upon them constantly changed as experiences brought illumination and insight. Yet the men who occupied these positions were sometimes unable to cope with the changing circumstances and the many significant limitations which were imposed upon them. Of the World War I corps commanders, William Birdwood was one of the longest serving. From the time of his appointment in December 1914 until May 1918, Birdwood acquired an experience of corps command which was perhaps more diverse than his contemporaries during this time. He is, then, an ideal subject for a prolonged assessment of this level of command. This thesis has two principal objectives. The first is to identify and assess those factors which limited Birdwood???s capacity and ability to command. The second is to explore the institutional constraints placed on corps commanders during the 1914-1918 war. Surprisingly, this is a comparatively barren area of research. Because very few officers spent much time as corps commanders on their way to higher command appointments and because the role of the corps commanders in military planning and in the conduct of operations was not immediately apparent, their role has been practically ignored. Historians have tended to concentrate on the Army and divisional levels creating a deficient view of higher military command in World War I. However, corps commanders could and did play an important part in planning operations and in military affairs generally. Birdwood???s experience at Gallipoli and in France reflect some of the changes to command structures that were prompted by the successes and failures of operations directed at the corps level. In as much as these two theatres of war were vastly different and Birdwood was confronted with dissimilar problems, it is possible to draw some general conclusions about the evolution of higher command after 1914. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources located in Australian and British archives, this thesis traces Birdwood???s career as a corps commander at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. It also examines his tenure as G.O.C. of the A.I.F.
Libros sobre el tema "World War 1914-1918 – Western Front – Fiction"
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Maria, Remarque Erich. All quiet on the western front and related readings. New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2000.
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Steward, Joseph Johns. The platoon: An infantryman on the Western Front 1916-1918. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 2011.
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1858-1924, Nesbit E. (Edith), ed. Five children on the Western Front. New York: Delacorte Press, 2016.
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Napoli, Tony. All quiet on the western front. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Globe Fearon, 1996.
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Zero hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front. Melbourne, Australia: Text Pub., 2010.
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Maria, Remarque Erich. All quiet on the western front. Thorndike, Me: G.K. Hall, 1997.
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Maria, Remarque Erich. All quiet on the western front. London: Pan Books, 1987.
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Maria, Remarque Erich. All quiet on the western front. London: Jonathan Cape, 1994.
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Maria, Remarque Erich. All quiet on the Western Front. Rearsby: Clipper Large Print, 2011.
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Maria, Remarque Erich. All quiet on the Western Front. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1993.
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Todd, Lisa M. "The Enemy Lurking Behind the Front: Controlling Sex in the German Forces Sent to Eastern and Western Europe, 1914–1918". En Expeditionary Forces in the First World War, 79–109. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25030-0_4.
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Stevenson, David. "Resolution by Force November 1917-November 1918". En The First World War and International Politics, 183–235. Oxford University PressOxford, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198202813.003.0006.
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Abstract From its Balkan origins the war had grown into a world-wide conflagration that a triple military, diplomatic, and domestic political stalemate fuelled until the end of 1917. It kindled a multiplicity of successor conflicts, one of which-the Russian Civil War-claimed more lives than did the contest between the Allies and the Central Powers itself. As long as the central struggle continued, it and local wars across the globe were liable to intermesh. In 1918 intervention in Russia by both sides was the most dramatic case in point. But once the central struggle had been resolved, the peripheral ones could be fought out with largely local forces, and gradually brought to an end. This chapter will therefore concentrate on the suspension of hostilities in the war that had begun in 1914. It will examine the separate treaties concluded on the Eastern Front in the spring of 1918; the intervention in Russia, in spite of this, by the Central Powers and the Allies in the summer; the commitment by the Allies to dismember Austria-Hungary; and the Southern and Western European armistices at the end of the year. As in 1917, an underlying theme of these developments was the failure of conciliation. But all three elements of the previous deadlock were now crumbling, and political decisions acquired a new finality as the war of movement returned. The relationship between military and political developments was, as ever, intricate. But for statesmen at the time it was omnipresent.
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Rogan, Eugene. "Rival jihads: Islam and the Great War in the Middle East, 1914–1918". En British Academy Lectures, 2015-16. British Academy, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266045.003.0001.
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The Ottoman Empire, under pressure from its ally Germany, declared a jihad shortly after entering the First World War. The move was calculated to rouse Muslims in the British, French and Russian empires to rebellion. Dismissed at the time and since as a ‘jihad made in Germany’, the Ottoman attempt to turn the Great War into a holy war failed to provoke mass revolt in any part of the Muslim world. Yet, as German Orientalists predicted, the mere threat of such a rebellion, particularly in British India, was enough to force Britain and its allies to divert scarce manpower and materiel away from the main theatre of operations in the Western Front to the Ottoman front. The deepening of Britain’s engagement in the Middle Eastern theatre of war across the four years of World War I can be attributed in large part to combating the threat of jihad.
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Symonds, Craig L. "Naval Aviation And World War The Battle of Midway June 4, 1942". En Decision At Sea, 197–262. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195171457.003.0005.
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Abstract If Dewey’S Victory In Manila Bay Signaled America’S debut as a world power, U.S. participation in the Great War of 1914-18 confirmed it. Shocked by the German policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, the United States entered the war in 1917 just as the original combatants were exhausting themselves. As a result, not only did the United States avoid the massive casualties endured by the other combatants in the bloody fighting on the Western Front from 1914 to 1917, it also tipped the balance of forces at just the right moment to help determine the outcome. American industrial capacity played a significant role by producing the cargo ships, transports, and escorts, in both record time and record numbers, to overcome the German U-boat menace. This might have marked the moment when the United States emerged as a preeminent even dominant-world power. But it proved to be a false dawn. Americans in 1918 were not yet ready to don the mantle (and the responsibility) of world power, a fact signaled by the Senate’s rejection of both the Versailles Treaty and membership in die League of Nations.
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Lockwood, Jeffrey A. "All’s Lousy on the Eastern Front". En Six-Legged Soldiers, 77–84. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195333053.003.0008.
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Abstract During World War I, the European continent provided history’s largest experiment in entomological warfare tactics. For the first time, scientific understanding of insect-borne diseases allowed these agents to be exploited as “passive weapons,” demonstrating that the best offense could be a good defense. Rather than forcing the enemy into infested habitats, science provided the means for military leaders to protect their own forces from the ravages of disease-carrying insects that were part and parcel of war. The advantage of metal armor had been known for centuries, but biological armor now transformed the battlefield. The grand experiment, however unintentional, allowed military historians to compare the course of war when an army was vulnerable versus when it was protected from the ravages of lice. From 1914 through 1918, the Eastern Front was a worst-case scenario for typhus, while the Western Front was relatively vermin free—an utterly unique experience in the annals of entomological warfare.
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Bond, Brian. "The Pursuit of Victory in the First World War and the Aftermath". En The Pursuit Of Victory, 105–33. Oxford University PressOxford, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198204978.003.0007.
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Abstract It has long been unfashionable to write about the First World War in terms of victory and defeat. Military historians know there was a decisive outcome on the Western Front in 1918, and most have given credit to the Allied armies, and notably the British and Dominion forces, for the remarkably successful offensive operations which resulted in the armistice on 11 November.1 But for general students of the war winning and losing have been overshadowed by other considerations. Would the governments which so readily went to war in 1914 have done so had they been able to foresee its duration and terrible costs? Why was the conflict not ended sooner by a negotiated ‘peace without victory’? How did the comparatively modest, or at least specific, war aims of 1914 become the unlimited and vague ambitions of 1918? Above all, why did the peace settlements prove to be so brittle and ephemeral, making a mockery of the rhetoric of a ‘world safe for democracy’ and of ‘a war to end all wars’? It has consequently been difficult, even for military historians, to regard this conflict in Clausewitzian terms, that is as an instrument of policy used to secure specific objectives under political control and direction. On the contrary, its clumsy direction, appalling nature, confused ending, and short-lived results have made it a byword for incompetence and futility. While it will probably be impossible to over throw these widely held opinions, based as they are on hindsight, moral revulsion, and an assumption that things could have been done differently, the view advanced here is that the conflict was about important issues, that it was eventually ended by military means, and that, despite all the disappointments, victory was much preferable to defeat.