[PDF] The French Home Front 1914 1918 eBook

Author : Patrick Fridenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 20,78 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 : Ian Sumner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,61 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 : Jean Jacques Becker
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 24,75 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 : 30,19 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 : Leonard V. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521666312

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France and the Great War tells the story of how the French community embarked upon, sustained, and in some ways prevailed in the Great War. In this 2003 book, Leonard Smith and his co-authors synthesize many years of scholarship, examining the origins of the war from a diplomatic and military viewpoint, before shifting their emphasis to socio-cultural and economic history when discussing the civilian and military war culture. They look at the 'total' mobilization of the French national community, as well as the military and civilian crises of 1917, and the ambiguous victory of 1918. The book concludes by revealing how traces of the Great War can still be found in the political and cultural life of the French national community. This lively, accessible and engaging book will be of enormous value to students of the Great War.

Author : David Bilton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 147387341X

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Many books have looked at the effect of the war on the Home Front, but this is the first book to take a glimpse at the Home Front photographically from an international point of view, covering both Allied and enemy countries, juxtaposing the same situations in different countries to show a similar response. This second volume chronicles the changes brought on by just a few months of war: spies, increased casualties, food shortages, changes in work patterns, the shortage of men in the work force, women at work and at the end of the year the slow rush in Britain to volunteer for the army, hoping to not be called for service. It also looks at the Home Front for those caught behind enemy lines where life was both spartan, potentially dangerous and subject to the whim of the victor. The photographs, many of which have not been seen before and some which have never been published, clearly show that each year of war had a further profound effect on each nation. This unique series of international photographic books fits in with the author's more textual books on the Home Front: Hull in the Great War and Reading in the Great War, both of which explore the complex life of a city at war.