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This is the remarkable story of the American First World War serviceman Arthur Clifford Kimber. When his country entered the Great War in 1917, Kimber left Stanford University to carry the first official American flag to the Western Front. Fired by idealism for the French cause, the young student initially acted as a volunteer ambulance driver, before training as a pilot and taking part in dogfights against 'the Boche'. His letters home give a vivid...
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A unique civilian's eye-view of World War I, depicting, through heartfelt letters from an American woman, a fascinating before and after picture of a French community in disarrayWhat looked impossible is evidently coming to pass . . . I silently returned to my garden and sat down. War again! This time war was close by-not war about which one can read, as one reads it in the newspapers, as you will read it in the States, far away from it, but war...
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“These Letters, which were written to me from France during the first winter of the World War, do not in any way pretend to literary attainment; they are just the simple letters of a soldier recording as a diary the daily doings of his regiment at the front.
Often were they penned under great difficulties, and many a time under a rain of fire. The accounts of the awful loss of life and the discomforts experienced, both by officers and men unused...
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This volume contains a series of predictions made by H. G. Wells as to the ramifications of World War I, covering such areas as politics, economics, border changes, education, media, law, and more.
Contents include:
"Forecasting The Future",
"The End Of The War",
"Nations In Liquidation",
"Braintree, Bocking, And The Future Of The World",
"How Far Will Europe Go Toward Socialism?",
"Lawyer And Press",
"The New Education",
"What The War Is...
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A historian examines the letters written by three residents of Canada's Maritime provinces during their service in World War I.
What was the First World War really like for Maritimers overseas? This epistolary book, edited by historian Ross Hebb, contains the letters home of three Maritimers with distinct wartime experiences: a front-line soldier from Nova Scotia, a nurse from New Brunswick, and a conscripted fisherman from Prince Edward Island....
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The personal letters of Americans during the Civil War preserve first-person records of news, people, and emotions that humanize the horrific events of the war and provide unique insights into the conflict's effects on individuals, families, communities, and America. Often, however, only the letters sent home survived, leaving half of the story missing. Between Home and the Front presents previously unpublished letters from the Walters family's collection...
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During his service in the Confederate army, Major General Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897) served under and alongside such famous officers as Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, James Longstreet, and John B. Hood. He played a significant role in some of the most crucial battles of the Civil War, including Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. Despite this, no biography of McLaws or history of his division has ever been...
8) In Haig's Shadow: The Letters of Brigadier-General Hugo De Pree and Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
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Hugo De Pree was the nephew of the better-known Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. However, De Pree had a distinguished military career in his own right. He served in the Boer War. He was sent to the Western Front, as Chief of Staff of IV Corps, and played a key part in planning the Battle of Cambrai in 1917.
In 1918 De Pree was appointed to command 189 Brigade in 63rd (Royal Naval) Division. His part in the March Retreat showed that he was not a chateau...
9) Le génie de l'Orient: Lettres de guerre d'un officier du génie de l'Algérie à la Crimée (1831-1856)
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Un ouvrage intéressant qui reprend le point de vue d'un militaire avant la Première Guerre mondiale
Loin de l'idée reçue d'un XIXe siècle marqué par une phase de paix entre les guerres de Napoléon et la Grande Guerre, la correspondance familiale de l'officier du génie Ernest Ballard témoigne de la violence des premières phases de la conquête de l'Algérie en 1831 et 1841 qu'il décrit à ses parents. Reparti en Méditerranée orientale...
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura La sociedad literaria y el pastel de piel de patata de Guernsey, novela epistolar de Mary Ann Shaffer y Annie Barrows. La historia narra cómo una escritora instalada en Londres intercambia cartas con algunos apasionados por la lectura de la isla de Guernsey. A través de ellas el lector descubre cómo aconteció la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que acaba de finalizar, en las islas anglonormandas.
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Experience World War II from the perspective of a married couple in this collection of letters exchanged between an American serviceman and his wife.
During World War II, the millions of letters American servicemen exchanged with their wives and sweethearts were a lifeline, a vital way of sustaining morale on both fronts. Intimate and poignant, Miss You offers a rich selection from the correspondence of one such couple, revealing their longings,...
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One Confederate soldier's descriptive letters to his family offering a personal view of the devastating Civil War assault.
In Days of Destruction, editors W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes chronicle the events of the siege of Charleston, South Carolina, through a collection of letters written by Augustine Thomas Smythe, a well-educated young man from a prominent Charleston family. The vivid, eloquent letters he wrote to his family depict all that...
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A collection of letters from a Union surgeon in the American Civil War, revealing what life was like for a doctor and a soldier in that era.
Union surgeon James Dana Benton witnessed firsthand the suffering and death brought about by the ghastly wounds, infections, and diseases that wreaked havoc to both the Union and Confederate armies. A native of New York, Dr. Benton penned a series of letters throughout the war to his family relating his experiences...
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In 1774, Boston bookseller Henry Knox married Lucy Waldo Flucker, the daughter of a prominent Tory family. Although Lucy's father was the third-ranking colonial official in Massachusetts, the couple joined the American cause after the Battles of Lexington and Concord and fled British-occupied Boston. Knox became a soldier in the Continental Army, where he served until the war's end as Washington's artillery commander.
Their correspondence, one of...
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This collection of Civil War correspondence chronicles the lives and concerns of three Confederate families in Piedmont, South Carolina.
The letters in Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War provide valuable firsthand accounts of both battlefronts and the home front, sharing rich details about daily life as well as evolving attitudes toward the war. As the men of service age from each family join the Confederate ranks, they begin writing from military...
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Les histoires insolites de la Seconde Guerre mondiale!
Daniel-Charles Luytens, fin limier de l'Histoire, est sans cesse à la recherche d'archives inédites, oubliées ou méconnues. Il nous livre ici sa dernière moisson de dossiers consacrés à l'une des périodes les plus tragiques du XXe siècle, 39-45, période durant laquelle Hitler et ses acolytes sévirent sur l'Allemagne et les territoires occupés. Grâce à des documents tels que des...
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