IWM First World War Remembered: In Association with Imperial War Museums
Author(s): Gary Sheffield
The First World War was one of the seminal events of the twentieth century. The savagery of the fighting, the appalling conditions endured by the soldiers, and the sheer scale of the carnage have seared images of the War into the public memory: trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, artillery, and enormous cemeteries. Millions of men fought in the trenches, many died, and many more were maimed in mind or body. This book shows the wide sweep of the conflict, describing the development of the fighting from 1914-1918, spotlighting some of the obscure but important actions as well as the major battles and the soldiers who fought them.
General Information
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- : Carlton Books Ltd
- : Andre Deutsch Ltd
- : Contains Hardback and DVD
- : 01 May 2014
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2014
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Gary Sheffield
- : Mixed media product
- : 2014
- : en
- : 132
- : approx. 200 colour & black & white photographs & artworks
More About The Product
Professor Gary Sheffield was appointed Chair of War Studies at the University of Birmingham in 2006, having previously taught as a Professor of Modern History at King's College, London. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts and has written widely on twentieth-century military history especially the First World War. In 2003, he shared the Templer Medal for Military Literature for his contribution to The British General Staff: Innovation and Reform (2002). Gary regularly broadcasts on radio and television, and his work has appeared in the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday, the Times Literary Supplement and BBC History Magazine. He lives in Oxfordshire.
Introduction; The Slide Towards Conflict; Mobilization; Eastern Front; Ypres; Africa; War at Sea; Ireland; Italian Front; Battle of Jutland; The First Battle of the Atlantic; Empires at War; Women in War; Literature; Diplomacy; The Battle of the Somme; Russia in Revolution; Passchendaele; Trench Life; War in the Air; USA; The Final Offensives; Aftermath & Legacy.
