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The First World War as a Clash of Cultures
Author:
Fred Bridgham
Published:
2006
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This volume of essays examines the perceived rift between the British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and how the resultant war of words both reflects and helped determine historical, political, and, ultimately, military events. This vexed symbiosis is traced first through a survey of popular fiction, from alarmist British and German "invasion novels" to the visions of Erskine Childers and Saki and even P.G. Wodehouse; contrastingly, the "mixed-marriage novels" of von Arnim, Spottiswoode, and Wylie are considered. Further topics include D. H. Lawrence's ambivalent relationship with Germany, Carl Sternheim's coded anti-militarism, H. G. Wells's and Kurd Lasswitz's visions of their countries under Martian invasion, Nietzsche as the embodiment of Prussian warmongering, and the rise in Germany of anglophobic, anti-Spencerian evolutionism. Case histories of the positions of German andEnglish academics in regard to the conflict round out the volume.
CONTRIBUTORS: IAIN BOYD WHITE, HELENA RAGG-KIRKBY, RHYS WILLIAMS, INGO CORNILS, NICHOLAS MARTIN, GREGORY MOORE, STEFAN MANZ, ANDREAS HUTHER, HOLGER KLEIN Fred Bridgham is Senior Lecturer in the Department of German at the University of Leeds.
hardback
ISBN 978-1-571-13340-3
Price:
£45.00
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The Great War, Memory and Ritual
Author:
Mark Connelly
Published:
2001
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The modern idea that the Great War was regarded as a futile waste of life by British society in the disillusioned twenties and thirties is here called into question by Mark Connelly. Through a detailed local study of a district containing a wide variety of religious, economic and social variations, he shows how both the survivors and the bereaved came to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War. His study illustrates the ways in which communities as diverse as the Irish Catholics of Wapping, the Jews of Stepney and the Presbyterian ex-patriate Scots of Ilford, thanks to the actions of the local agents of authority and influence - clergymen, rabbis, councillors, teachers and employers - shaped the memory of their dead and created a very definite history of the war. Close focus on the planning of, fund-raising for, and erection of war memorials expands to a wider examination of how those memorials became a focus for a continuing need to remember, particularly each year on Armistice Day. Dr MARK CONNELLY is Reuters Lecturer in Media History, University of Kent.
hardback
ISBN 978-0-861-93253-5
Price:
£50.00
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The National Roll of the Great War - Birmingham (Section 6)
Medium: CD
Publisher:
Archive CD Books
Different to 'normal' Rolls of Homour, listing ordinary people as well as soldiers who gave service during the WWI, male, female, young, old, survivors and those who fell. Names are organised alphabetically. eg. Mrs M Hodgetts. For four and a half years was engaged on important Government work at Messrs Pugh's, Tilton Road, Birmingham. There she was employed in wire cutting for bayonets... 98 Tilton Road, Small Heath, Birmingham.
Price:
£15.11
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The Shiny Seventh
Author:
M. G. Deacon
Published:
2004
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Seldom have any troops shown such brilliant dash and utter contempt for the Bosch. Diary entry recorded during the Third Battle of Ypres. The Shiny Seventh was an ordinary Kitchener battalion, a body of men raised for the duration of the war, forming part of an ordinary county regiment. They saw extraordinary things and performed extraordinary actions as part of 18th (Eastern) Division, one of the most consistently successful British divisions on the Western Front. This is their story as told by their successive adjutants in the official War Diary. It tells of the drudgery of the trenches, fatigues, entertainment and endless training, including that of the newlyarrived Americans in 1918. It also chronicles a rare success on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, confusion at Arras, dash and gallantry at Ypres, endurance during the great retreat of March 1918 and a final 'backs to the wall' fight in front of Amiens that was instrumental in safeguarding the position of the entire British army in France and thus the outcome of the war itself. The personal diary of one of its subalterns, Henry Cartwright, isincluded as an appendix, courtesy of his great nephew, along with descriptions of the battlefields today and details of places visited and casualties suffered by this extraordinary, ordinary battalion.
hardback
ISBN 978-0-851-55069-5
Price:
£25.00
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