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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"western front"”.
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The German Army on the Western Front: 1914 – 1918
… of all the major campaigns and battles along the Western Front 1914 – 1918. Each book, five of which have so far been published, stands alone, but complements those already written and those still to be produced. The books are a synthesis of a narrative historical approach, analysis and original …
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British 8th Infantry Division on the Western Front, 1914-18
… of the British 8th Infantry Division on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918. It is set in the context of the dominant historiography of the last thirty years – that the BEF’s experiences on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 were subject to a ‘learning curve’, that it learnt in a …
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"Smile and Carry On:" Canadian Cavalry on the Western Front, 1914-1918
… ignored the presence of mounted troops on the Western Front, or have written off the entire cavalry arm with a single word – ‘obsolete.’ However, the Canadian Cavalry Brigade and the Canadian Light Horse remained on the Western Front throughout the Great War because cavalry still had a role to …
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The Western Front in the Backyard: The archaeological survey of Camp Howze, Texas
In 1942 the United States Army designated a 93 square mile area of Cooke County, Texas to become one of the first temporary wartime bases of World War II within the continental US. Operating from 1942 to 1946, Camp Howze was a training group for several hundred thousand military personnel, and a …
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"Where Youth and Laughter Go:" Trench Warfare from petersburg to the Western Front
… prolific use of trench warfare occured on the Western Front in the First World War, but it was during the siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War that extensive trenches were first used with technologically advanced weapons. By comparing the siege of Petersburg with the Western Front, it …
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The evolution of infantry brigade command in the British Army on the Western Front, 1916-1918
… and their staff to the challenges of the Western Front secured their role as agents of organisational and tactical change. A series of case studies over the period 1916-1918 serve to demonstrate the significant contribution of brigade staff to the Army’s learning process. Much like that of …
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Bathing and the British Army on the Western Front. A Study of Civilian and Military Influences
… why systems of bathing were introduced on the Western Front in November 1914 and their further development during the War. It examines the influence of civilians in the Army, both as providers and users of baths, and also that of families and friends at home. The introduction reviews relevant …
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British 21st Infantry Division on the Western Front 1914 - 1918: A Case Study in Tactical Evolution
… of the British 21st Infantry Division on the Western Front during the First World War. It examines the progress of the division, analysing the learning curve of tactical evolution that some historians maintain was experienced by the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). 21st Division was a New …
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Combat stress reaction and morale in RFC/RAF aircrew 1914-1918
… analysed the operations of the RFC/RAF over the Western Front from 1014-1918 with the aim of establishing the incidence of aircrew failure for nervous disorders. The factors affecting the psychological and psychiatric reactions of aircrew to combat have been examined. The significance of morale …
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Foreign fields: identity and location in soldiers' writings of the First World War
… War, and colours their memories after it. The Western Front, through years of concentrated bombardment, became a vast and confusing broken landscape. For the soldiers who inhabited this landmark-barren terrain a new geographical context was required to explain their condition and situation. As …
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They will not be the same: themes of modernity in Britain during World War I
… are the experiences of British soldiers on the Western Front. Trench warfare will be analyzed both as a birthplace for alienation and irony, and for its role in producing the Live and Let Live system. When this system was practiced on the Western Front, participating parties rejected nationalism …
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For King and Country: Reconsidering the Great War Soldier in Britain, 1914-1945
… argues that the generation which survived the Western Front returned to Britain as jaded shells of their former selves unable to relate to their old lives and families. Bitterness and apathy replaced belief in cause and country. In contrast, recent historiography asserts that British soldiers …
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Geometry, kinematics and age of the northern half of the White Mountain shear zone, eastern California and Nevada
… penetrative deformation that lies along the western front of the northern White-Inyo Range in eastern-most California and western-most Nevada. The northern half of the WMSZ is characterized by a NNE to NNW-striking steeply dipping foliation and associated shallowly plunging NNE to NW-trending …
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The American Expeditionary Forces in World War I: The Rock of the Marne.
… repel but to stop all German assaults on the Western Front: it had substantially aided in defeating Imperial Germany.</p><p>Through primary and secondary sources a timeline, as well as a few of the more significant events, has been established following the United States' involvement in the …
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Writing Against The War Machine: Wiflred Owen's Poetic Challenge to World War I Pro-War Rhetoric
… the differences between what soldiers saw on the Western Front versus what information civilians were given or what opinions they held. The four poems used are “Strange Meeting,” “Dulce et Decorum Est,” “Disabled,” and “Smile, Smile, Smile” to showcase Owen’s growing disillusionment, not with the …
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The Australian experience of psychological casualties in war, 1915-1939
… psychological disorder on soldiers at the front and in the hospital and rehabilitative systems both during and after the war. It also assesses the effect of this problem on the social functioning of returned soldiers during the 1920s and 1930s as well as its influence on Australian …
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I Was Looking for God: A Study of Wehrmacht Personnel and their Personal Relationships with Religion
… Using soldier correspondence from the home front, the Western Front, and especially the Eastern Front as well as wiretapped conversations from allied interrogation camps, the thesis argues that both soldiers and their loved ones did not just actively participate in Christian rituals under a …
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