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1914 and Other Poems (The World At War)
by Rupert BrookeRupert Brooke had planned to put together a second collection of poetry for the spring of 1915. However he died of blood-poisoning while serving in World War I and this collection was published posthumously in 1915. It includes the celebrated poem "The Old Vicarage, Granchester". (Amazon)
1914, el año que cambió la historia
by Antonio López VegaMucho más que la Primera Guerra Mundial. Un libro fascinante para entender la auténtica dimensión de un año clave en la historia. <P><P>1914 ha solido concitar la atención de los historiadores por marcar el inicio de la Gran Guerra. Sin embargo, aquel año tuvieron lugar otros muchos acontecimientos, reflejo de las profundas transformaciones que, a nivel mundial, pusieron fin al largo siglo XIX y dieron comienzo al corto siglo XX - por decirlo con la feliz expresión de Eric Hobsbawm -. <P> Sucesos como el ataque a la Venus del espejo por parte de Mary Richardson, el discurso de Ortega y Gasset «Vieja y nueva política», la toma de Veracruz por los marines estadounidenses, el estreno de El ruiseñor de Igor Stravinsky, los asesinatos de Francisco Fernando y de Jean Jaurès, la apertura del canal de Panamá o la llegada al pontificado de Benedicto XV ponían de relieve los cambios que estaban aconteciendo en todos los órdenes - político, económico, social, cultural, relaciones internacionales, etc... <P>Aquel año fue así testigo del apogeo de la reivindicación sufragista, de la presencia de los intelectuales en la vida pública, de la emergencia de Estados Unidos como gran potencia, de la eclosión de la vanguardia artística, de la irrupción del nacionalismo etnicista de tono violento, de la pugna entre revolucionarios y posibilistas en el seno del movimiento obrero o del malestar de la fe religiosa con la modernidad. <P>Acontecimientos todos ellos que hacen de 1914 mucho más que el año de la Gran Guerra: fue el año que cambió la historia. Este libro se fija en todo ello. <P>Con ritmo vibrante y de la mano magistral de Antonio López Vega, el lector se introducirá en el ambiente de 1914 a través de acontecimientos singulares que cambiaron para siempre la historia de la humanidad.
1914. Argentina y la Primera Guerra Mundial
by Alejandro C. Tarruella<P>Argentina y la Primera Guerra Mundial, un momento clave de la historia argentina, que marcó el curso del siglo XX. <P> Fines de junio de 1914, los diarios argentinos daban cuenta del asesinato del heredero del Imperio Austrohúngaro y su esposa, en la ciudad de Sarajevo. <P>Lo que entonces parecía un hecho más en los conflictos de la región de los Balcanes, pronto desencadenó el enfrentamiento que hoy conocemos como la Primera Guerra Mundial y que sus contemporáneos llamaron la Gran Guerra. <P>A cien años de esos acontecimientos, este libro reconstruye el impacto de la contienda en la Argentina, que por entonces vivía el tránsito entre el régimen conservador y el primer gobierno radical de Hipólito Yrigoyen. <P>La minuciosa investigación de Ramón Tarruella permite comprender un momento clave de la historia argentina, que marcó el curso del siglo XX. <P>Entre otros aspectos, 1914 recorre: * Los debates en torno a la neutralidad de nuestro país. * Las polémicas en la opinión pública y los partidos políticos. * La intensa actividad de las colectividades de inmigrantes europeos y las penurias económicas como resultado del conflicto. * Cómo se informaba y se formaba opinión, por medio de corresponsales como Leopoldo Lugones y Roberto Payró, entre otros destacados escritores. * Las limitaciones del modelo agroexportador vigente. * La declinación de Gran Bretaña y la creciente influencia de Estados Unidos como potencia mundial.
1914: Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War
by Allan Mallinson‘No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening’, wrote Churchill. ‘The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces, the uncertainty of their movements and positions, the number of unknown and unknowable facts made the first collision a drama never surpassed…in fact the War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of fate.’On of Britain's foremost military historians and defence experts tackles the origins - and the opening first few weeks of fighting - of what would become known as 'the war to end all wars'. Intensely researched and convincingly argued, Allan Mallinson explores and explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army’s regeneration after its drubbings in its fight against the Boer in South Africa, its almost calamitous experience of the first twenty days’ fighting in Flanders to the point at which the British Expeditionary Force - the 'Old Contemptibles' - took up the spade in the middle of September 1914: for it was then that the war changed from one of rapid and brutal movement into the more familiar vision of trench warfare on Western Front. In this vivid, compelling new history, Malliinson brings his experience as a professional soldier to bear on the circumstances, events, actions and individuals and speculates – tantalizingly – on what might have been...
1914: Key Dates and Events from the First Year of the First World War
by Saul DavidThis special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Vistory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'. Through key dates from 4 August 1914, when Britain declared war, to the Christmas Truce of 24 December 1914, Saul David's gripping narrative is an enthralling tribute to a generation of men and women whose sacrifice should never be forgotten.
1914: The Outbreak of War to the Christmas Truce
by Saul DavidThis special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Vistory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'. Through key dates from 4 August 1914, when Britain declared war, to the Christmas Truce of 24 December 1914, Saul David's gripping narrative is an enthralling tribute to a generation of men and women whose sacrifice should never be forgotten.
1914: Voices from the Battlefields
by Matthew RichardsonThe opening battles of WWI&’s Western Front and the world-changing advances in warfare are reexamined through eyewitness accounts from the trenches. The 1914 campaign of World War I, sparked by the German Army&’s invasion of Luxembourg, Belgium, and France, marked a watershed in military history. Advances in weaponry forced both sides to take to the earth in what became a grueling standoff of trench warefare. In a bizarre mix of ancient and modern, some of the last cavalry charges took place in the same theatre in which armoured cars, motorcycles and aeroplanes were beginning to make their presence felt. These dramatic developments were recorded in graphic detail by soldiers who were there in the trenches themselves. Now, with the benefit of these firsthand accounts, historian Matthew Richardson offers a thoroughgoing reassessment of the 1914 campaign. His vivid narrative emphasises the perspective of the private soldiers and junior officers of the British Army and includes full colour plates containing over one hundred illustrations. 1914: Voices from the Battlefields was a Britain At War Magazine Book of the Month in February 2014.
1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front (Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
by S. A. An-SkyThe WWI diary of the Russian Jewish activist and author of The Dybbuk presents &“an unforgettable portrait of life, culture, and destruction&” (Eugene Avrutin, author of Jews and the Imperial State). By the outbreak of World War I, S. An-sky was a well-known writer, a longtime revolutionary, and an ethnographer who pioneered the collection of Jewish folklore in Russia's Pale of Settlement. In 1915, An-sky took on the assignment of providing aid and relief to Jewish civilians trapped under Russian military occupation in Galicia. As he made his way through the shtetls there, close to the Austrian frontlines, he kept a diary of his encounters and impressions. In his diary, An-sky describes conversations with wounded soldiers in hospitals, fellow Russian and Jewish aid workers, and Jewish civilians living on the Eastern Front. He recorded the brutality and violence against the civilian population, the complexities of interethnic relations, the practices and limitations of philanthropy and medical care, Russification policies, and antisemitism. In the late 1910s, An-sky used his diaries as raw material for a lengthy memoir in Yiddish, published under the title The Destruction of Galicia. Although most of An-sky&’s original diaries were lost, two fragments are preserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art. Translated and annotated here by Polly Zavadivker, these fragments convey An-sky's vivid perceptions and enlightening insights.
1915: Key Dates and Events from the Second Year of the First World War
by Saul DavidThis special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Vistory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'. Through key dates from the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24th January 1914, to the Gallipoli landings, Saul David's gripping narrative is an enthralling tribute to a generation of men and women whose sacrifice should never be forgotten.
1915: The Battle of Dogger Bank to Gallipoli
by Saul DavidThis special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Vistory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'. Through key dates from the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24th January 1914, to the Gallipoli landings, Saul David's gripping narrative is an enthralling tribute to a generation of men and women whose sacrifice should never be forgotten.
1916
by Morgan LlywelynHistorical novel of the struggle for Irish independence, seen through the eyes of a young Irish partisan.
1916 in Global Context: An anti-Imperial moment (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)
by Enrico Dal Lago Róisín Healy Gearóid BarryThe year 1916 has recently been identified as "a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions." Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of empires, and thus collectively represent a global anti-imperial moment, which was the revolutionary counterpart to the later diplomatic attempt to construct a new world order in the so-called Wilsonian moment. Chief among such events was the Easter Rising in Ireland, an occurrence that took on worldwide significance as a challenge to the established order. This is the first collection of specialist studies that aims at interpreting the global significance of the year 1916 in the decline of empires.
1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion
by Morgan LlywelynAt age fifteen, Ned Halloran lost both of his parents--and almost his own life--when the Titanic sank. Determined to keep what little he has, he returns to his homeland of Ireland and enrolls at Saint Edna's school in Dublin. Saint Edna's headmaster is the renowned scholar and poet, Patrick Pearse--who is soon to gain greater fame as a rebel and patriot. Ned becomes deeply involved with the growing revolution . . . and the sacrifices it will demand.Through Ned's eyes, Morgan Llywelyn's 1916 examines the Irish fight for freedom--inspired by poets and schoolteachers, fueled by a desperate desire for independence, and played out in the historic streets of Dublin against the background of World War I. It is a story of the brave men and heroic women who, for a few unforgettable days, managed to hold out against the might of the British Empire.
1916: From the Easter Rising to the Present
by Tim Pat CooganThere's before 1916 and then there's after. Between them lies the Easter Rising, when Irish republicans took up arms against British rule and changed the course of their country's history forever. For though the resistance failed, it failed gloriously; the rebels were no longer a group of cranks and troublemakers in the public eye, but martyrs and national heroes, their example set the way for others and their mission lived on through the century to come. But what sort of country did the Rising create? And how does post-1916 Ireland compare with the aspirations of the rebellion's leaders, the hopes of Thomas MacDonagh and John MacBride, of James Connolly and Patrick Pearse?One hundred years later, Tim Pat Coogan offers a personal perspective on the Irish experience that followed the Rising. He charts a flawed history that is marked as much by complacency, corruption, and institutional abuse as it is by the building of a nation and the sacrifices of the Republic's founding fathers.
1916: Key Dates and Events from the Third Year of the First World War
by Saul DavidThis special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Victory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'. Through key dates from the introduction of conscription in Britain on 27 January 1916, to the first day of the Somme on 1 July 1916, Saul David's gripping narrative is an enthralling tribute to a generation of men and women whose sacrifice should never be forgotten.
1916: The Easter Rising
by Tim Pat CooganThe Easter Rising began at 12 noon on 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, the destruction of many parts of Dublin and the true beginning of Irish independence. The 1916 Rising was born out of the Conservative and Unionist parties' illegal defiance of the democratically expressed wish of the Irish electorate for Home Rule; and of confusion, mishap and disorganisation, compounded by a split within the Volunteer leadership. Tim Pat Coogan introduces the major players, themes and outcomes of a drama that would profoundly affect twentieth-century Irish history. Not only is this the story of a turning point in Ireland's struggle for freedom, but also a testament to the men and women of courage and conviction who were prepared to give their lives for what they believed was right.
1916: The Easter Rising (10 MINUTE SERIES)
by Tim Pat CooganThe Easter Rising began at 12 noon on 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, the destruction of many parts of Dublin and the true beginning of Irish independence. The 1916 Rising was born out of the Conservative and Unionist parties' illegal defiance of the democratically expressed wish of the Irish electorate for Home Rule; and of confusion, mishap and disorganisation, compounded by a split within the Volunteer leadership. Tim Pat Coogan introduces the major players, themes and outcomes of a drama that would profoundly affect twentieth-century Irish history. Not only is this the story of a turning point in Ireland's struggle for freedom, but also a testament to the men and women of courage and conviction who were prepared to give their lives for what they believed was right.
1916: Verdun to the Somme
by Saul DavidThis special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Victory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'. Through key dates from the introduction of conscription in Britain on 27 January 1916, to the first day of the Somme on 1 July 1916, Saul David's gripping narrative is an enthralling tribute to a generation of men and women whose sacrifice should never be forgotten.
1917 and the Consequences (Routledge Studies in Modern History)
by Gerhard Besier Katarzyna Stok 322 OsaThe Russian Revolution of 1917 has been one of the most important events of modern history. It changed the course of the events not only in Russia but, on a wider scale, across the world while it influenced the flow of history throughout the twentieth century until the fall of the Soviet Union and, to some extent, well beyond this time. Radical change in Russia triggered social revolutions and reformations across Europe, while authoritarian systems shaped their societies according to the Russian model. This book analyses these forces, particularly at the European periphery which has been underexplored until this volume.
1917. Traición y revolución
by Juan Miguel ZunzuneguiUna historia del amor separado por las ideologías y la única revolución que nunca ha triunfado. Europa se desangra en la Primera Guerra Mundial, millones de cadáveres rusos y alemanes yacen en el frente oriental, mientras los poderosos se reparten el mundo. Desde Londres hasta Constantinopla, y de San Petersburgo a Berlín, los ejércitos, espías, revolucionarios y agentes secretos destruyen los antiguos imperios y forjan los cimientos de un nuevo mundo. En medio de la guerra de Europa y de la revolución soviética, el misterioso agente norteamericano John Mann investiga la trama de toda una conspiración que involucra la muerte del misterioso Rasputín, la caída del Zar, las maquinaciones de Stalin y las estrategias de Trotsky, el reparto de Medio Oriente, a los árabes y turcos, a los bolcheviques y alemanes, y al arma más poderosa del Kaiser en su guerra contra el Imperio Ruso: Vladimir Lenin. La historia quecomienza en 1917 termina el 9 de noviembre de 1989 con la caída del Muro de Berlín. Anastasia y Konstantin, dos sobrevivientes de la revolución soviética, separados por el muro, narran su versión de los hechos mientras buscan reencontrarse. Una historia del amor separado por las ideologías, de los eternos sueños frustrados de la humanidad, y de la única revolución que nunca ha triunfado.
1917: Key Dates and Events from the Fourth Year of the First World War
by Saul DavidThis special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Victory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'. Through key dates from the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, to the capture of Jerusalem, Saul David's gripping narrative is an enthralling tribute to a generation of men and women whose sacrifice should never be forgotten.
1917: Key Dates and Events from the Fourth Year of the First World War
by Saul DavidThis special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Victory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'. Through key dates from the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, to the capture of Jerusalem, Saul David's gripping narrative is an enthralling tribute to a generation of men and women whose sacrifice should never be forgotten.
1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
by Arthur HermanIn this dual biography, New York Times bestselling author Arthur Herman brilliantly reveals how Lenin and Wilson rewrote the rules of modern geopolitics. In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson—champion of American democracy but also of segregation, advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice—thrust the United States into the First World War in order to make the &“world safe for democracy&”—only to see his dreams for a liberal international system dissolve into chaos, bloodshed, and betrayal. That October, Vladimir Lenin—communist revolutionary and advocate for class war and &“dictatorship of the proletariat&”—would overthrow Russia&’s earlier democratic revolution that had toppled the powerful czar, all in the name of liberating humanity—and instead would set up the most repressive totalitarian regime in history, the Soviet Union. Prior to and through the end of World War I, countries marched into war only to advance or protect their national interests. After World War I, countries began going to war over ideas. Together Lenin and Wilson unleashed the disruptive ideologies that would sweep the globe, from nationalism and globalism to Communism and terrorism, and that continue to shape our world today. Our new world disorder is the legacy left by Wilson and Lenin, and their visions of the perfectibility of man. More than a century later, we still sit on the powder keg they first set the detonator to, through war and revolution.&“Deeply researched and engagingly written, this is a gripping account of great battles won and lost, of a triumphant war followed by a failed peace, and of clashing ideologies that shaped a century.&” —Robert Kagan
1918: A Very British Victory
by Peter HartThe story of the huge mobile battles of 1918, which finally ended the Great War.1918 was the critical year of battle as the Great War reached its brutal climax. Warfare of an epic scale was fought on the Western Front, where ordinary British soldiers faced the final test of their training, tactics and determination. That they withstood the storm and began an astonishing counterattack, is proof that by 1918, the British army was the most effective fighting force in the world. But this ultimate victory came at devastating cost.Using a wealth of previously unpublished material, historian Peter Hart gives a vivid account of this last year of conflict - what it was like to fight on the frontline, through the words of the men who were there. In a chronicle of unparalleled scope and depth, he brings to life the suspense, turmoil and tragedy of 1918's vast offensives.
1918: A Very British Victory
by Peter Hart1918 was the critical year of battle as the Great War reached its brutal climax. Warfare of an epic scale was fought on the Western Front, where ordinary British soldiers faced the final test of their training, tactics and determination. That they withstood the storm and began an astonishing counterattack, is proof that by 1918, the British army was the most effective fighting force in the world. But this ultimate victory came at devastating cost.Using a wealth of previously unpublished material, historian Peter Hart gives a vivid account of this last year of conflict - what it was like to fight on the frontline, through the words of the men who were there. In a chronicle of unparalleled scope and depth, he brings to life the suspense, turmoil and tragedy of 1918's vast offensives.Read by Clive Mantle(p) 2008 Orion Publishing Group