[PDF] The French Home Front 1914 1918 eBook

Author : Patrick Fridenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :

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In this exceptional study, the author goes beyond the sphere of party politics to explore the industrial aspects of French wartime history.

Author : Roger Chickering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2000-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521773522

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World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres.

Author : Ian Sumner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2012-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1781599084

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“Sumner’s brilliant window onto the French army is a book I cannot recommend highly enough . . . Full of detail and mixed with vivid personal accounts.”—War History Online This graphic collection of first-hand accounts sheds new light on the experiences of the French army during the Great War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions and emotions of soldiers and civilians who were caught up in the most destructive conflict the world had ever seen. Their testimony gives a striking insight into the mentality of the troops and their experience of combat, their emotional ties to their relatives at home, their opinions about their commanders and their fellow soldiers, the appalling conditions and dangers they endured, and their attitude to their German enemy. In their own words, in diaries, letters, reports and memoirs—most of which have never been published in English before—they offer a fascinating inside view of the massive life-and-death struggle that took place on the Western Front. The author’s pioneering work will appeal to readers who may know something about the British and German armies on the Western Front, but little about the French army which bore the brunt of the fighting on the allied side. His book represents a milestone in publishing on the Great War. “An interesting, well-written and informative book which goes a long way to explaining why the French army mounted the staunch defense of its homeland that it did.”—Burton Mail “The text is skillfully put together and moves seamlessly from one voice to another while illuminating the flow of events that affected Frenchmen and women during the Great War.”—Stand To! The Western Front Association

Author : Craig Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521837618

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This book uncovers the vital relationships between British troops and local inhabitants in France and Belgium during the First World War.

Author : Jean Jacques Becker
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :

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A well-known authority in the field provides a wide-ranging exploration of the repercussions of the First World War upon the French people.

Author : Malcolm Chandler
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780435327293

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Endorsed by Edexcel, this book covers the topic of Britian at home in World War I. It provides background information on the topic.

Author : Tammy M. Proctor
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 081476780X

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World War I heralded a new global era of warfare, consolidating and expanding changes that had been building throughout the previous century, while also instituting new notions of war. The 1914-18 conflict witnessed the first aerial bombing of civilian populations, the first widespread concentration camps for the internment of enemy alien civilians, and an unprecedented use of civilian labor and resources for the war effort. Humanitarian relief programs for civilians became a common feature of modern society, while food became as significant as weaponry in the fight to win. Tammy M. Proctor argues that it was World War I—the first modern, global war—that witnessed the invention of both the modern “civilian” and the “home front,” where a totalizing war strategy pitted industrial nations and their citizenries against each other. Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918, explores the different ways civilians work and function in a war situation, and broadens our understanding of the civilian to encompass munitions workers, nurses, laundresses, refugees, aid workers, and children who lived and worked in occupied zones, on home and battle fronts, and in the spaces in between. Comprehensive and global in scope, spanning the Eastern, Western, Italian, East African, and Mediterranean fronts, Proctor examines in lucid and evocative detail the role of experts in the war, the use of forced labor, and the experiences of children in the combatant countries. As in many wars, civilians on both sides of WWI were affected, and vast displacements of the populations shaped the contemporary world in countless ways, redrawing boundaries and creating or reviving lines of ethnic conflict. Exploring primary source materials and secondary studies of combatant and neutral nations, while synthesizing French, German, Dutch, and English language sources, Proctor transcends the artificial boundaries of national histories and the exclusive focus on soldiers. Instead she tells the fascinating and long-buried story of the civilian in the Great War, allowing voices from the period to speak for themselves.