British Postcards Of The First World War
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| Author | : Peter Doyle |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 105 |
| Release | : 2011-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0747811865 |
Postcards sent by men on the front, and to them by their families, are among the most numerous, and most telling, surviving artefacts of the Great War. They tell us much about attitudes towards the war, and provide a great insight into men's lives, and into the thoughts and emotions of those left behind. Very different in their illustration, and in their writing, between the beginning of the war and the end, postcards provide a social history of the war in microcosm. Illustrated with a wide range of postcards, this is a fascinating look into the response of the British people to the horrors of the war.
| Author | : Peter Doyle |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 65 |
| Release | : 2011-11-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0747809453 |
Postcards sent by men on the front, and to them by their families, are among the most numerous, and most telling, surviving artefacts of the Great War. They tell us much about attitudes towards the war, and provide a great insight into men's lives, and into the thoughts and emotions of those left behind. Very different in their illustration, and in their writing, between the beginning of the war and the end, postcards provide a social history of the war in microcosm. Illustrated with a wide range of postcards, this is a fascinating look into the response of the British people to the horrors of the war.
| Author | : Allyson Booth |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : English literature |
| ISBN | : 0195102118 |
She links, for example, the modernist representation of an unstable self to soldiers' familiarity with corpses, the modernist mistrust for fact to the competing nationalist discourses of August 1914, and the modernist description of buildings as having shaken off the past to a desire to forget the war. Booth argues that the dislocations of war often figure centrally in modernist forms even when the war itself seems peripheral to modernist content.
| Author | : Irene Guenther |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2018-11-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1350015776 |
German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sent to his sweetheart, Irma. During the battles of Ypres and Verdun, Schubert filled dozens of military-issued 4” x 6” cards with vivid images depicting the daily realities and tragedies of war. Beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of his exquisite postcards, as well as his wartime sketches, woodcuts, and two lithograph portfolios, Postcards from the Trenches is Schubert's war diary, love journal, and life story. His powerful artworks illuminate and document in a visual language the truths of war. Postcards from the Trenches offers the first full account of Otto Schubert, soldier-artist of the Great War, rising art star in the 1920s, prolific graphic artist and book illustrator, one of the “degenerate” artists defamed by the Nazis, and a man shattered by the Second World War and the Cold War. Created in the midst of enormous devastation, Schubert's haunting visual missives are as powerful and relevant today as they were a century ago. His postcards are both a young man's token of love and longing and a soldier's testimony of the Great War.
| Author | : Tom Jackson |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2017-06-01 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 0008220549 |
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDON In Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection of the funniest, weirdest and most moving real messages from the backs of old postcards.
| Author | : Robynn Clairday |
| Publisher | : Square One Publishers, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
| ISBN | : 9780757001024 |
"Postcards From World War II" is a unique look at the history of our nation at war presented through postcard images and messages. 150 full-color postcards.
| Author | : Fergus Mackain |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2016-10-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1445658305 |
A unique visual perspective of life in the trenches on the Western Front from the forgotten soldier-artist and Somme veteran Private Fergus Mackain who served in France 1916 to 1917.
| Author | : Alex Mayhew |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2023-12-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 100918573X |
The First World War was an unprecedented crisis, with communities and societies enduring the unimaginable hardships of a prolonged conflict on an industrial scale. In Belgium and France, the terrible capacity of modern weaponry destroyed the natural world and exposed previously held truths about military morale and tactics as falsehoods. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered some of the worst conditions that combatants have ever faced. How did they survive? What did it mean to them? How did they perceive these events? Whilst the trenches of the Western Front have come to symbolise the futility and hopelessness of the Great War, Alex Mayhew shows that English infantrymen rarely interpreted their experiences in this way. They sought to survive, navigated the crises that confronted them, and crafted meaningful narratives about their service. Making Sense of the Great War reveals the mechanisms that allowed them to do so.
| Author | : Fiona Reid |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2017-02-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1472505921 |
The casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented: approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone. In consequence, military-medical services expanded and the war ensured that medical professionals became firmly embedded within the armed services. In a situation of total war civilians on the home front came into more contact than before with medical professionals, and even pacifists played a significant medical role. Medicine in First World War Europe re-visits the casualty clearing stations and the hospitals of the First World War, and tells the stories of those who were most directly involved: doctors, nurses, wounded men and their families. Fiona Reid explains how military medicine interacts with the concerns, the cultures and the behaviours of the civilian world, treating the history of wartime military medicine as an integral part of the wider social and cultural history of the First World War.
| Author | : Frank Jacob |
| Publisher | : Vernon Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2019-03-31 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1622734513 |
For many the postcard may seem trivial, little more than a mundane souvenir or a way to keep in touch with friends and relatives while on vacation. But if we look carefully, postcards offer valuable insights into the time periods in which they were created and the mentalities of those who bought or sent them. Frank Marhefka, while serving in the U.S. Army Motor Transportation Corps during the First World War, amassed a collection of more than 150 postcards and photographs while in France, and bound them into a souvenir album. Marhefka’s collection provides a diverse and vivid look into a period of history that – in many soldiers’ accounts – is not usually visualized with all its cruelties. Emphasizing the pictorial turn of the Great War, this album offers personal insight into a conflict that caused so much death and destruction. The book begins with an introduction providing a history of postcards and their extensive use by soldiers during the Great War. Then, after a biography of Marhefka, his postcard collection is presented in its entirety. Accompanying the images are brief texts that place them into historical context, as well as suggestions for further reading. As a visual artifact of the First World War and the perspective of one U.S. soldier, this book is aimed at students, scholars, postcard collectors, and general readers alike who have an interest in military history and popular culture.
