Eerste Wereldoorlog

Den kendte militæranalytikkers gennemgang af 1. verdenskrig

Relaas over de Eerste Wereldoorlog vanuit de optiek van enkele tijdgenoten in Groot-Brittannië.

Ervaringen tijdens de strijd in de loopgraven aan het Westelijk front.

Ooggetuigenverslagen van Britse soldaten van het tweede jaar van de Eerste Wereldoorlog.

Deel twee en drie van een autobiografische trilogie, waarin een Britse jongeman verhaalt over zijn ervaringen aan het front in de Eerste Wereldoorlog.

Harry Lamin was born in Derbyshire in 1877 and left school at thirteen to work in the lace industry, but by December 1916 he had been conscripted into the 9th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment and sent to war. Harry's letters home to his family describe the conflict with a poignant immediacy, even ninety years on, detailing everything from the action in battle to the often amusing incidents of life amongst his comrades. Throughout the letters, Harry's tone is unwaveringly stoical, uncomplaining and good humoured. Letters From The Trenches is a fitting tribute to the unsung heroes of the Great War who fought and endured and returned home, and the one in six who did not. The letters describe the war through the eyes of those who really lived it, bringing the horrors and triumphs to life for the twenty-first-century reader. Edited by Harry's grandson, Bill, Letters From The Trenches tells the moving story of a brave, selfless and honourable man who endured everything that the war could throw at him, and still came up smiling.

De schoonheid en het verdriet van de oorlog is geen gewone geschiedenis van de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Er komen geen tanks, soldaten en officieren in voor, en geen abstracte opsommingen van feiten en aantallen. Integendeel: Peter Englund vertelt een aangrijpend verhaal dat de oorlog laat zien zoals die was - zinloos, mensonterend en saai. Englund doet dit aan de hand van de levensverhalen van negentien meestal jonge mensen, onbekend of vergeten. Een twaalfjarig meisje uit het oosten van Duitsland dat juichend de troepen uitzwaait; een Belgische jongen die als piloot kennismaakt met een geheel nieuwe vorm van oorlogsvoering; een jonge Australische vrouw die verliefd wordt op een Servische soldaat. Stuk voor stuk aangrijpende levensverhalen over hoe oorlog gewone mensen berooft van hun jeugd, illusies, hoop en medemenselijkheid - hun leven.

Weergave van opgenomen geluidsmateriaal waarin geïnterviewde soldaten en burgers hun directe ervaringen in de Eerste Wereldoorlog beschrijven.

Martin Middlebrook's The First Day on the Somme is a compelling and intensely moving account of the blackest day in the history of the British army.

On 1 July, 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk slowly towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns and defended by thick barbed wire. By the end of that day, as old tactics were met by the reality of modern warfare, there had been more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatalities.

As well as drawing on official sources, local newspapers, autobiographies, novels and poems from the time, most importantly The First Day on the Somme also takes in the accounts of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.

The First Day on the Somme describes the true events behind one of the largest battles of the First World War, and the sacrifice of a generation of young men - killed as much by the folly of their commanders as by the bullets of their enemies.

'The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words'
Guardian

'A particularly vivid and personal narrative'
The Times Literary Supplement

Martin Middlebrook is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the author of many important books on military history including The Kaiser's Battle - March 1918, The Falklands War - 1982.

Een bijna 100-jarige Vlaamse vrouw beschrijft haar ervaringen rond de Eerste Wereldoorlog in Vlaanderen en Noord-Frankrijk om en aan het front.

This is a unique reference source on the armies, battles, weapons and leaders of the first of the great wars that shook Europe and the World during the twentieth century. There are over 250 contemporary photographs and engravings and clear maps that illustrate the principal battles and campaigns. The book includes: * The Campaigns: chronology, battles * The Weaponry: arms, strategy, tactics on land and sea * The Warring Sides: armies, navies, leaders and led * The Commanders: the significant leaders and characters * The Sources: contemporary records, books, graphic arts, photography and videos * Miscellanea: statistics, pay, clothing issue, weapons performance etc. * Glossary of period and technical terms

The Great War was in many ways without precedent in the annals of history. Never had so many nations taken up arms at a single time; never had a war reached so deeply into the lives of people far away from the battlefield. Presenting an account of this critical and violent period of world history, and tying in with a BBC2 television series, this book focuses on the social and cultural effects of the war, supported by letters and diaries, poems and photographs.

Volume II of the Chronicle starts at the beginning of 1917 and covers the war on all nine fronts (as in Vol I), in day-by-day detail, up to the armistice of 1918 and on through the peace process until 1921. The presentation of the vast amount of information affords the reader a two-way perspective. Horizontally across the columns is a time-line perspective showing what was happening where on any given day. Vertically, throughout the two volumes of the Chronology, is an account of the activity on each of the nine fronts listed above.

In Somme Lyn Macdonald explores one of the most harrowing battles in British history.'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle of the Somme...'The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever been so meticulously planned. Yet while there were good political reasons to launch a joint offensive with a French Army demoralized by huge casualties at Verdun, the raw troops on the ground knew nothing of that. A hundred and fifty thousand were killed in the punishing shellfire, the endless ordeal of attack and counter-attack; twice that number were left maimed or wounded. Here, almost for the first time, Lyn Macdonald lets the men who were there give their own testimony. Their stories are vivid, harrowing, sometimes terrifying - yet shot through with humour, immense courage and an astonishing spirit of resilience.'What the reader will longest remember are the words - heartbroken, blunt, angry - of the men who lived through the bloodbath...a worthy addition to the literature of the Great War...' Daily MailOver the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published by Penguin.

The Classic Account of Passchendaele - Reissued for the First World War Centenary The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for King and Country. Lyn Macdonald's Passchendaele tells their tale of mounting disillusion amid mud, terror and desperate privation, yet it is also a story of immense courage, comradeship, songs, high spirits and bawdy humour. Passchendaele portrays the human realities behind one of the most disastrous events in the history of warfare. 'It is rare to find a history of the First World War which manages to convey the front-line soldiers' experiences and to describe what it was that enabled those who survived to get through it. Lyn Macdonald has done just that' Sunday Times Over the past twenty years Lyn Macdonald has established a popular reputation as an author and historian of the First World War. Her books are based on the accounts of eyewitnesses and survivors, told in their own words, and cast a unique light on the First World War. Most are published by Penguin.

In 1930, the editor of "Everyman" magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period. It is told chronologically, from the first scrambles of 1914, the drudgery of the war of attrition once the trenches had been dug, to the final joy of Armistice.

Een Engelsman trekt als vrijwilliger naar het gebied van de Somme in Frankrijk om er tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog in de loopgraven te vechten tegen de vijand.

De houding van de Duitse sociaal-democratische partij tegenover de revolutionaire tendenzen onder het Duitse volk.

China en de eerste wereldoorlog, waargebeurd verhaal in stripvorm

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