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| Author | : Miranda Carter |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 873 |
| Release | : 2009-09-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0141960965 |
The Three Emperors by Miranda Carter is the juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them. Three cousins. Three Emperors. And the road to ruin. As cousins, George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and the last Tsar Nicholas II should have been friends - but they happened also to rule Europe's three most powerful states. This potent combination together with their own destructive personalities - petty, insecure, bullying, absurdly obsessive (stamp collecting, uniforms) - led not only to their own dramatic fallouts and falls from grace, but also to the outbreak of the First World War. Miranda Carter's riveting account of how three men who should have known better helped bring down an entire world is a gripping story of abdication, betrayal and murder. 'Fascinating. A wonderfully fresh and beautifully choreographed work of history' Mail on Sunday 'Miranda Carter's story is full of vivid quotations...a romp though the palaces of Europe in their last decades before Armageddon' Sunday Times 'Fascinating. Carter is a gifted storyteller and has written a very readable account' Independent 'That these three absurd men could ever have held the fate of Europe in their hands is a fact as hilarious as it is terrifying. I haven't enjoyed a historical biography this much since Lytton Strachey's Victoria' Zadie Smith
| Author | : Geoffrey Jackson |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2019-04-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0774860170 |
When Great Britain and its dominions declared war on Germany in August 1914, they were faced with the formidable challenge of transforming masses of untrained citizen-soldiers at home and abroad into competent, coordinated fighting divisions. The Empire on the Western Front focuses on the development of two units, Britain’s 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division and the Canadian 4th Division, to show how the British Expeditionary Force rose to this challenge. Examining their respective geneses and following them through to the end of the war, Geoffrey Jackson explores many aspects of the division-building process of these two units – from leadership and training to discipline and morale – and how (or whether) the process differed in Britain and Canada. The Empire on the Western Front examines army formation and operations at the divisional level and ultimately calls into question existing accounts that emphasize the differences between the imperial and dominion armies.
| Author | : David Olusoga |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 676 |
| Release | : 2014-08-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1781858969 |
'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Military History Monthly In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War – a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe. Throughout, he exposes the complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions, which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve, and to what degree they would suffer. As vivid and moving as it is revelatory and authoritative, The World's War explores the experiences and sacrifices of four million non-European, non-white people whose stories have remained too long in the shadows.
| Author | : Prit Buttar |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 490 |
| Release | : 2014-06-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782009728 |
Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s. One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was undoubtedly the myriad alliances and suspicions that existed between the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires in the early 20th century. Yet much of the actual fighting between these nations has been largely forgotten in the West. Driven by first-hand accounts and detailed archival research, Collision of Empires seeks to correct this imbalance. The first in a four-book series on the Eastern Front in World War I, Prit Buttar's dynamic retelling examines the tumultuous events of the first year of the war and reveals the chaos and destruction that reigned when three powerful empires collided. A war that was initially seen by all three powers as a welcome opportunity to address both internal and external issues would ultimately bring about the downfall of them all.
| Author | : George Morton-Jack |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 586 |
| Release | : 2018-12-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0465094074 |
Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War I While their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite their sacrifices, Indian troops received mixed reactions from their allies and their enemies alike-some were treated as liberating heroes, some as mercenaries and conquerors themselves, and all as racial inferiors and a threat to white supremacy. Yet even as they fought as imperial troops under the British flag, their broadened horizons fired in them new hopes of racial equality and freedom on the path to Indian independence. Drawing on freshly uncovered interviews with members of the Indian Army in Iraq and elsewhere, historian George Morton-Jack paints a deeply human story of courage, colonization, and racism, and finally gives these men their rightful place in history.
| Author | : Professor Michael S Neiberg |
| Publisher | : Amber Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2012-03-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 190662612X |
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns of the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns that raged on land, at sea and in the air.
| Author | : Richard S. Fogarty |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 507 |
| Release | : 2014-04-08 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0857735853 |
Soon after the guns in Belgium and France had signalled the commencement of what would become the world's single most destructive conflict to date, the British, Ottoman, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, French and Belgian Empires were at war. Empires in World War I marks a turn away from the pre-eminence of the Western Front in the current scholarship, and seeks to reconstitute our understanding of this war as a truly global struggle between competing empires. Based on primary research, this book opens up new debates on the effects of the Great War in colonial arenas. The book assesses the effects of the war on Native Americans in the United States for example, as well as on the relationship between India and Pakistan, the British justice system in Palestine and the 'imperial scramble' in the Asia-Pacific region. Empires in World War I will be essential reading for students and scholars of the twentieth century.
| Author | : Santanu Das |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 495 |
| Release | : 2018-09-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107081580 |
This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.
| Author | : Santanu Das |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2011-04-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 052150984X |
Drawing upon fresh archival material this book recovers the experience of different ethnic groups during the First World War conflict.
| Author | : Tarak Barkawi |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2017-06-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107169585 |
Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.
