14 - 18 Understanding the Great War

Name: 14 - 18 Understanding the Great War
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ISBN: 9780809046430

ISBN-10: 0809046431

ISBN-13: 9780809046430

Edition: 2003

Authors: Stï¿½phane Audoin-Rouzeau, Annette Becker

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With this brilliantly innovative book, Steacute;phane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker have shown that the Great War was the matrix on which all subsequent disasters of the twentieth century were formed. Three elements of the conflict, all too often neglected or denied, are identified as those that must be grasped if we are to understand the war: First, what inspired its unprecedented physical brutality, and what were the effects of tolerating such violence? Second, how did citizens of the belligerent states come to be driven by vehement nationalistic and racist impulses? Third, how did the tens of millions bereaved by the war come to terms with the agonizing pain? With its strikingly…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 8/5/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction: Understanding the Great War



Violence



Battle, combat, violence: a necessary history



Civilians: atrocities and occupation



The camp phenomenon: the internment of civilians and military prisoners



Crusade



The beginnings of war



Civilisation, barbarism and war fervour



Great expectations, eschatology, demobilisation



Mourning



Historicising grief



Collective mourning



Personal bereavement


Conclusion: 'You didn't see anything in the 1920s and 1930s'


Notes


Index