description: pt. 1. A world at war: The substance of the war / John Terraine ; The civilian dimension of the war / Imanuel Geiss -- pt. 2. Command : responsibility and stress: Winston Churchill and the strain of office, 1914-1915 / Martin Gilbert ; Kitchener at the War Office / George Cassar ; Ludendorff and Germany's defeat / Martin Kitchen ; Haig and Pershing / Frank Vandiver ; The Freench High Command and the mutinies of Spring 1917 / Leonard Smith ; British decision-making 1917 : Lloyd George, the generals and Passchendaele / Trevor Wilson, Robin Prior ; War experience and armistice conditions : generals and politicians / Bullitt Lowry -- pt. 3. The naval and air war: The German naval war 1914-18 : strategy and experience / Werner Rahn ; The British experience of enforcing the blockade : the armed merchant cruisers in 1915 / Chris Page ; The Britich merchant seaman at war / Tony Lane ; Brothers in arms : the British Army and Navy at the Dardanelles / Geoffrey Till ; Italy and the war in the Adriatic / Renato Sicurezza ; The war in the air : the men and their machines / Jack Bruce ; A German airman and his war : Oscar Bechtle / Peter Kilduff -- pt. 4. Soldiers : national and unit identity--general: The French soldier in the trenches / Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau ; Little Mehmet in the desert : the Ottoman soldier's experience / Erik Zürcher ; The American soldier in France 1917-1919 / James Cooke ; The reactions of Irish officers in the British Army to the Easter Rising of 1916 / Jane Leonard ; Ernst Jünger : German stormtrooper chronicler / Thomas Nevin ; The last hurrah : cavalry on the Western Front, August-September 1914 / Richard Holmes -- pt. 5. Soldiers : national and unit identity--British: The war experience of a typical Kitchener division--the 18th Division / Peter Simkins ; The Scottish soldier at war / Edward Spiers ; The British working man in arms / John Bourne ; The experience of the British Special Brigade in gas warfare / Donald Richter ; The forgotten army of women : Queen Mary's Army Auxillary Corps / Diana Shaw -- pt. 6. Soldier morale: The morale of the German Army 1917-18 / Hew Strachan ; Morale in the Austro-Hungarian Army : the evidence of Habsburg Army campaign reports and Allied intelligence officers / Geoffrey Wawro ; Officer-man relations, discipline and morale in the Britsh Army of the Great War / Gary Sheffield ; The Russian soldier's morale from the evidence of tsarist military censorship / Irina Davidian ; Morale and discipline in the Italian Army, 1915-18 / John Gooch -- pt. 7. Medicine and experience: Health systems in khaki : the British and American medical experience / Nick Bosanquet ; Not a doctor's work? : the role of the British Regimental Medical Officer in the field / Ian Whitehead ; The fight against disease in the Mesopotamian campaign / Mark Harrison ; Facial surgery : the patient's experience / Andrew Bamji ; Dr. James Dunn and shell-shock / Keith Sampson -- pt. 8. Peoples at war: British loyalties : the evidence of an archive / Peter Liddle ; A nation at war : the Russian experience / Vladimir Buldakov, Sergei Kudryashev, Genadii Bordiugov ; Germany, the Home Front : (1) the physical and psychological consequences of Home Front hardship / Peter Lowenberg ; Germany, the Home Front : (2) blockade, government and revolution / Alyson Jackson ; The Home Front in Italy / Luigi Tomassini ; Peoples of the underdeveloped world / Bernard Waites -- pt. 9. Resisters : rebels and dissenters: The flames of Louvain : the war experience of an academic community / Mark Derez ; Life in an occupied zone : Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing / Annette Becker ; The Arab experience of the war / Rashid Khalidi ; The experience of Yugoslav agitation in Austria-Hungary, 1917-18 / Mark Cornwall ; Opposition to the war in France : the case of Clovis Andrieu / Jean-Jacques Becker ; The British experience of conscientious objection / Keith Robbins -- pt. 10. The war experience projected : propagandists and their audiences: German teachers at war / Eberhard Demm ; War correspondents and conducting officers on the Western Front from 1915 / Keith Grieves ; Tommy's sisters : the representation of working women's experience / Sharon Ouditt ; The experience of war in American patriotic literature / Patrick Quinn ; French children as target for propaganda / Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau ; Through the eye of the camera : contemporary cinema audiences and their experience of war in the film, "Battle for the Somme" / Nicholas Reeves -- pt. 11. Interpreting war experience : the arts and post-war reflection: Nritish war novelists / Hugh Cecil ; British "anti-war" writers and their critics / Brian Bond ; The French war novel : the case of Louis-Fedinand Céline / Frank Field ; The experience of British artists in the Great War / Paul Gough ; Painting armageddon / Jay Winter ; Sir Ian Hamilton after the war : a liberal general reflects / John Lee.
language: English
title: FACING ARMAGEDDON: The first World War Experiences
titlecomplete: FACING ARMAGEDDON: The first World War Experiences (Pen & Sword Paperback)
genres: History
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Pen and Sword Select