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On Christmas Eve 1914, a group of German soldiers laid down their arms, lit lanterns, and started to sing Christmas carols. The British troops in nearby trenches responded by singing songs of their own. The next day, men from both sides met in No Man's Land. They shook hands, took photos, and exchanged food and souvenirs. Some even played improvised football games, kicking around empty bully-beef cans and using helmets for goalposts. Both sides also saw the lull in fighting as a chance to bury the bodies of their comrades.

I 1346 BESLUTTEDE TATARERNES HÆRFØRER, JANI BEG, AT KASTE DØDE SOLDATER IND OVER MURENE TIL BYEN KAFFA, SOM HAN BELEJREDE MED SIN HÆR. SOLDATERNE VAR DØDE AF PEST, OG DA DE SICILIANSKE KØBMÆND PÅ DEN ANDEN SIDE AF MUREN FLYGTEDE, BRAGTE DE SYGDOMMEN MED SIG TIL EUROPA, HVOR PESTEN SLOG OP MOD HALVDELEN AF ALLE EUROPÆERE IHJEL. EN SOMMERDAG I SARAJEVO I 1914 RAMTE ET PISTOLSKUD ØSTRIG-UNGARNS TRONFØLGER I HALSEN.

Bloomsbury presents Churchill, Master and Commander by Anthony Tucker-Jones, read by Nick Biadon. Masterful research, impeccable detail, with a beautifully flowing narrative of which Churchill himself would have been proud.' – Professor Peter Caddick-Adams From his earliest days Winston...

The men of the 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion were some of the most effective shock troops of the Allied forces in the Great War. They drove back German forces wherever they met and refused ever to surrender. Such tactics struck fear in their enemies, yet it came at a tremendous cost. Of the 5374 officers and men who passed through the unit, a total of 4917, or 91 percent, were either killed or wounded.

In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the army to take his dead brother's place. And We Go On is a remarkable and harrowing memoir of his two years in the trenches of the Western Front, from October 1916 until the Armistice.

In questa nuova edizione il volume, fortemente innovativo per tesi, documentazione e metodo, ha segnato uno spartiacque negli studi sulla prima guerra mondiale. Le riviste dell'età della "Voce", i fogli interventisti, i diari di trincea e la letteratura sulla guerra: rileggendo questa sterminata produzione Isnenghi ha ricostruito l'atteggiamento di una intera generazione di intellettuali italiani nei confronti dell'intervento e poi dell'esperienza bellica.

Bloomsbury presents The Searchers by Robert Sackville-West, read by Gordon Griffin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION CROWN AWARDS 2022 ‘Compelling and often horrifying’ THE TIMES Best Paperbacks of 2022 The epic, moving stories of Britain's search to recover, identify and...

West Yorkshire, 1914. Newly married to Noah Jackson, Beth is happily content working on her family's market stall while Noah fulfils his dreams of being a teacher. When war erupts, Beth's peaceful life is shattered by events beyond her control. Noah enlists to fight alongside his brothers. A devastating accident occurs that changes all their lives. Once a loving home, Beaumont Farm becomes Beth's responsibility.

Giovanni Lonardi era un emigrante veronese che viveva in Svizzera. Nell'aprile del 1915, tornato per un breve soggiorno in Italia, è stato arruolato e spedito al fronte. Lascia così moglie e tre bimbe a carico dei suoi poveri e vecchi genitori. Capita in un reggimento tra i più martoriati del fronte e scampa alla morte molte volte quasi per miracolo. Si comporta valorosamente tanto che si guadagna la croce di bronzo e il grado di sergente. Nel 1917 durante una rischiosa missione è fatto prigioniero e viene internato in un campo di prigionia in Austria.

Ils sont morts à quelques semaines d'intervalle : d'abord le père, puis la vieille tante de celui-ci, enfin le grand-père maternel. Mais cette série funèbre semble n'avoir fait qu'un seul disparu : le narrateur, dont le vide occupe le centre du récit. C'est à la périphérie et à partir d'infimes indices (un dentier, quelques photos, une image pieuse) que se constitue peu à peu une histoire, qui finira par atteindre, par strates successives, l'horizon de l'Histoire majuscule avec sa Grande Guerre, berceau de tous les mystères.

The British losses in ships and men during the Battle of Jutland started a controversy that some continue even up to today over the culpability of Admiral Jellicoe, who commanded the British fleets. In this book published shortly after the war collates accounts from both sides of the conflict and narrates the battle for the first time using knowledge previously unknown and only guessed at.

October 8, 1918: Amid the last of the Allies' attempts to defeat the Germans, Sgt. Alvin York of Tennessee found himself and his platoon of only 17 men trapped in the thick of heavy machine gun fire. Rather than retreating or calling upon the artillery to take out the nest, York single-handedly took out 25 Germans, dropping them one by one, and captured many more. This is one of the many tales of York's famed heroism, which were heralded as some of the most impressive battle stories in the history of modern warfare. Sergeant York contains the legendary soldier's war diaries.

An audio dramatisation in 6 episodes of With Our Backs To The Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson, Professor of International History at the LSE.

La Primera Guerra Mundial, también conocida como la Gran Guerra, hace honor a su apelativo. De 1914 a 1918, el mundo se sobrecogió ante una contienda en la que se vieron implicadas las principales potencias de la época y en la que, por primera vez en la historia, no hubo límites geográficos para los campos de batalla. Cuando se ha cumplido el primer centenario de su final, el escritor José Luis Hernández Garvi nos ofrece en Eso no estaba en mi libro de la Primera Guerra Mundial un ensayo histórico, fruto de una exhaustiva investigación.

WWI was a war fought on the sea, in the air, across the landscape, in the trenches and underground. Beneath the soil both sides tunnelled and planted explosives to blow the enemy trenches apart. They also attacked each other far underground with counter mines and explosive camouflets. Every day, they silently dug their way towards the enemy while listening intently for the enemy's own tunnelling. This memoir, told by an American serving with the British army, relates the extraordinary experiences of an engineer carrying on his own quiet, deadly underground war .

Oscar J. Harvey (1850-1922) was a renowned historian of Wilkes-Barre and Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley, and held the positions of professor of mathematics and English at Wyoming Seminary. This is his account of the ravages of the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and the efforts made to combat and overcome it.

Само название "Первая мировая война" свидетельствует о том, что подобного не случалось за всю историю человечества. Впервые количество погибших в результате военных действий исчислялось миллионами. Впервые в сражениях было применено оружие массового поражения.

Beckles Willson was a journalist at the front during World War I (1916). In this book he relates the story of Canadians as they fought against a massive German attack, and then mounted a counterattack during the battle of the Ypres Salient.

Slutstriden om Berlin kom att involvera runt 3,5 miljoner man. Första världskriget hade också slutat med tysk kapitulation men bortsett från gränsregleringar och ockupationen av Rhenlandet och Saarland togs inte Tyskland i besittning. Vid Casablancakonferensen 1943 och senare vid Jalta i februari 1945 enades däremot de allierade statsledarna om att en ovillkorlig tysk kapitulation var den enda acceptabla utgången av kriget.

Chris Dubbs tells the fascinating stories of Edith Wharton, Nellie Bly, and more than 30 other American women who worked as war reporters. As Dubbs shows, stories by these journalists brought in women from the periphery of war and made them active participants - fully engaged and equally heroic, if bearing different burdens and making different sacrifices. Women journalists traveled from belligerent capitals to the front lines to report on the conflict. But their experiences also brought them into contact with social transformations, political unrest, labor conditions, and more.