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"In this book I have written about some aspects of the war which, I believe, the world must know and remember, not only as a memorial of men's courage in tragic years, but as a warning of what will happen again-surely-if a heritage of evil and of folly is not cut out of the hearts of peoples. Here it is the reality of modern warfare not only as it appears to British soldiers, of whom I can tell, but to soldiers on all the fronts where conditions were...
2) Under Fire
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Under Fire (1916) is a novel by Henri Barbusse. Written from notes taken while Barbusse was serving in the First World War, the novel was quickly, recognized as, a powerful tale of perseverance and comradery in the face of unspeakable suffering. Intended to promote the cause of pacifism, Under Fire is deeply critical of the rich and powerful men whose inability to live peacefully, leads time-and-again to the sacrifice of countless human lives. "Each...
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G.K. Chesterton's "The Crimes of England" is his response to the Great War in which he holds his own nation to account - a move which might be considered risky. Except, of course, that most of the crimes he details turn out to be England's past alliances with and sympathies towards Germany in general and Prussia in particular. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton,(29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings,...
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This is a 1914 novel written by H. G. Wells. Within it, wells writes passionately and with elegance about his conviction that World War I will be the war to end all wars. Although he was obviously and unfortunately wrong in his suppositions, his book makes a good case for his belief and is highly recommended for those with an interest in WWI. Contents include: 'Why Britain Went to War', 'The Sword of Peace', 'Hands Off the People's Food', 'Concerning...
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Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman c̉lef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and...
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""I want to bring home to our people the gravity of the situation; because I want to tell them that the military and naval power of the German Empire is unbroken; that of the twelve million men whom the Kaiser has called to the colours but one million, five hundred thousand have been killed, five hundred thousand permanently disabled, not more than five hundred thousand are prisoners of war, and about five hundred thousand constitute the number of...
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""This is the story of a war within a war-of a struggle smothered away from the light of day, a long-drawn-out and ruthless campaign of brain versus brain. And the word that governs it all is ""Intelligence,"" the process by which one person, or State, extracts information from a second, against the latter's will.""
This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography...
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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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Entre toutes les légendes qui se sont déjà formées sur les événements de la guerre, il en est une qui est en train de s'accréditer avec une force singulière dans le pays qu'elle menace de diviser. c'est la légende du 16 avril 1917, qui doit être appelée du nom de celui à qui elle profite : "L'Affaire Nivelle".
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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.
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"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...
15) The War Poems
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At the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. The first English soldier-poet to achieve notoriety as an opponent of the war, he ranks among the conflict's most critical poetic voices. This collection of his epigrammatic and satirical poetry conveys the shocking brutality and pointlessness of the Great War. Many of these poems were written...
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Extrait : "On peut tenir pour certain que les Allemands, en juillet 1914, n'envisageaient à aucun degré l'entrée en guerre des États-Unis. La guerre de 70 avait abattu la France. En 1914, c'était le tour de la Russie. L'Angleterre, sûrement, s'abstiendrait ; et, si la France était assez folle pour intervenir, on l'anéantirait immédiatement."
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Extrait : "Dès la fin de l'année 1916, gouvernements et états-majors alliés étaient arrivés à cette conviction que les Allemands, dont l'échec devant Verdun avait changé tous les plans, s'efforceraient de reprendre, au printemps de Tannée suivante, l'initiative des opérations sur les divers fronts."
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Extrait : "Mon ami, je viens d'embarquer sur le Knoutt, aujourd'hui à midi, et j'ai bien chaud. J'ai vidé mes malles dans de minuscules armoires ; j'ai fait des visites officielles en gants blancs, avec un sabre qui me battait les mollets, et j'ai encore le courage de vous écrire, au lieu de me coucher joyeusement."
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Extrait: "La guerre de siège ou de positions, qui a commencé cm lendemain de la bataille des Flandres, a pour caractère essentiel la fixité des fronts. De la mer du Nord aux Vosges, la ligne est continue: aucun des deux adversaires ne prête son flanc à une attaque de l'autre; point de manœuvre possible; seule l'attaque frontale est réalisable."
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