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Battle lines
Reorients conventional understandings of Canadian First World War poetry. By focusing on poems about the Canadian soldier, Battle Lines reveals the period's robust literary activity and its conflicting poetic renditions of battle romance and modernist fractiousness.
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Between mutiny and obedience
Literary and historical conventions have long painted the experience of soldiers during World War I as simple victimization. Leonard Smith, however, argues that a complex dialogue of resistance and negotiation existed between French soldiers and their own commanders. In this case study of wartime...
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Broken lives
The gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition—but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitationBroken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler ...
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Cataclysm 1914
This collection argues that the First World Warand its consequenceswas perhaps the defining moment of 20th century world-politics.
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Daughter of the shtetl
Daughter of the Shtetl is an unusual memoir by an uneducated but sharply observant Jewish woman. Through the eyes of Doba-Mera, we experience the class divisions in shtetl and synagogue; pogroms and wars; working conditions in sewing shops; revolutionary circles around 1905; as well as aspects of...
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Hunger
Hunger focuses on the role of food, or the lack of it, in the First World War. Diary quotes, historical accounts, and the author's own re-enactments combine for a gripping, at times harrowing read.
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Recycling the disabled
Examines the “medical organisation” of Imperial Germany for total war
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Riding into battle
Riding into Battle tells the untold story of how Canadian Cyclist troops came into their own during the Hundred Days campaign of the Great War.
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Social-imperialism in britain
In this important volume, Redfern rigorously examines the relationship between British labour and British capital during the two world wars of the twentieth century.
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State and revolution in finland
Risto Alapuro, through a comparative and historical study of the Finnish revolution, provides a pertinent account of how upheavals in powerful countries impact smaller countries.
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The arming of europe and the making of the first world war
David Herrmann's work is the most complete study to date of how land-based military power influenced international affairs during the series of diplomatic crises that led up to the First World War. Instead of emphasizing the naval arms race, which has been extensively studied before, Herrmann dra...
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The commanders
From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War IIBorn in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders ...
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The ottoman twilight in the arab lands
This book provides an annotated translation of memoirs of Ottoman eye-witness actors of the Great War in the Arab lands. It reflects on numerous crises of the Middle East today such as the ambiguous Arab–Turkish relations, the Arab–Israeli confrontation, and the struggle for the holy places of Is...
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The unknowns
The award-winning author of Washington’s Immortals offers a searing narrative that takes readers into the heart of combat in the Great War
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The war that made the middle east
A new history that tells the story of how European imperial ambitions destroyed the Ottoman Empire during the Great War and created a divided and unstable Middle EastThe Ottoman Empire’s collapse at the end of the First World War is often treated as a foregone conclusion. It was only a matter of ...
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