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  • The First World War
    Comparative Civilizations Review, 2015
    Co-Authors: Laina Farhat-holzman
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    John Keegan, The First World War New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999In August 2014, it will be exactly one century since the beginning of a small War that became a global conflict. Many historians are revisiting this War, but two earlier works stand out as classics of the genre: The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman (1962) and The First World War by John Keegan.Tuchman's work focused on the First month of a War that could have been avoided had the major European powers used judgment. However, a combination of foolish (and stupid) misreading of the intentions of others spiraled into a War that killed off nearly a whole generation of young men across Europe and destroyed the entire historic culture of Russia. Three empires collapsed and a number of new nations were born, few of them to survive the second stage of World War I, World War II.Keegan is an excellent military historian, whose book, A History of Warfare (1994), has become a classic and is much admired in military institutions.The First World War is comprehensive, full of maps, photos, and detailed accounts of every battle fought in that War, but what makes it most valuable to me are the author's insights about the consequences of that War. It produced its second phase, the very different World War II. All of us getting immersed in the centennial of World War I should read this work. If you read nothing more than Chapter 1, "A European Tragedy," you will see what a horror was created by a handful of national leaders who were rash and foolish, and upon whose heads should fall the blame for the turmoil that characterized the rest of the century.Keegan notes: "The First World War was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been broken at any point during the five weeks of crisis that preceded the First clash of arms, had prudence or common goodwill found a voice; tragic because the consequences of the First clash ended the lives of ten million human beings, tortured the emotional lives of millions more, destroyed the benevolent and optimistic culture of the European continent and left, when the guns at last fell silent four years later, a legacy of political rancor and racial hatred so intense that no explanation of the causes of the Second World War can stand without reference to those roots. The Second World War, five times more destructive of human life and incalculably more costly in material terms, was the direct outcome of the First. On 18 September 1922, Adolf Hitler, the demobilized front fighter, threw down a challenge to defeated Germany that he would realize seventeen years later: 'It cannot be that two million Germans should have fallen in vain...No, we do not pardon, we demand-vengeance! …

Santanu Das - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • race empire and First World War writing
    2014
    Co-Authors: Santanu Das
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    Introduction Santanu Das Part I. Voices and Experiences: 1. 'An army of workers': Chinese indentured labour in First World War France Paul J. Bailey 2. Sacrifices, sex, race: Vietnamese experiences in the First World War Kimloan Hill 3. Indians at home, Mesopotamia and France, 1914-18: toWards an intimate history Santanu Das 4. 'We don't want to die for nothing': Askari at War in German East Africa, 1914-18 Michelle Moyd 5. France's legacy to Demba Mboup? A Senegalese Griot (and his descendants) remember his military service during the First World War Joe Lunn Part II. Perceptions and Proximities: 6. Representing Otherness: African, Indian, and European soldiers' letters and memoirs Christian Koller 7. Living apart together: Belgian civilians and non-European troops and workers in Wartime Flanders Dominiek Dendooven 8. Nursing the Other: the representation of colonial troops in French and British First World War nursing memoirs Alison S. Fell 9. Imperial captivities: colonial prisoners of War in Germany and the Ottoman Empire, 1914-18 Heather Jones 10. Images of Te Hokowhitu A Tu in the First World War Christopher Pugsley Part III. Nationalism, Memory and Literature: 11. 'He was black, he was a white man, and a dinkum Aussie': race and empire in revisiting the Anzac legend Peter Stanley 12. The quiet Western Front: the First World War and New Zealand memory Jock Phillips 13. 'Writing out of opinions': Irish experience and the theatre of the First World War Keith Jeffery 14. 'Heaven grant you strength to fight the battle for your race': nationalism, Pan-Africanism and the First World War in Jamaican memory Richard Smith 15. Not only War: the First World War and African American literature Mark Whalan Afterword: death and the afterlife: Britain's colonies and dominions Michele Barrett.

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
    2013
    Co-Authors: Santanu Das
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    Part I. Historical and Critical Contexts: Reconfiguring First World War poetry: an introduction Santanu Das 1. First World War poetry: a cultural landscape Vincent Sherry 2. Poetic form and the First World War Peter HoWarth Part II. 'Soldier-Poets': 3. Early poets of the First World War Elizabeth Vandiver 4. Later poets of the First World War Mark Rawlinson 5. Siegfried Sassoon Sarah Cole 6. Isaac Rosenberg Neil Corcoran 7. Wilfred Owen Sandra Gilbert 8. EdWard Thomas and Ivor Gurney Edna Longley 9. David Jones Adrian Poole Part III. Archipelagic, Commonwealth and Civilian Poetry: 10. Archipelagic poetry of the First World War David Goldie 11. Colonial poetry of the First World War Simon Featherstone 12. Women's poetry of the First World War Margaret Higonnet 13. Civilian War poetry: Hardy and Kipling Tim Kendall 14. First World War and modernist poetry: Pound and Eliot Christine Froula Part IV. Afterlives of First World War Poetry: 15. 'But that is not new': poetic legacies of the First World War Jay Winter 16. A conversation: Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Jon Stallworthy Santanu Das Guide to further reading Index.

  • Imperialism, Nationalism and the First World War in India
    Finding Common Ground, 2011
    Co-Authors: Santanu Das
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    This article explores the relationship between empire, India and the First World War, by examining both the responses to the War within India, and the experience of the sepoys in the Western Front. In particular, three lines of enquiry pursue: First, the responses to the War from the different feudal princes in India; second, the responses of the political bourgeoisie, focusing on the Wartime writings of two nationalist leaders, Annie Besant and Sarojini Naidu; and finally, the World of the sepoys through their letters. It is part of a larger project that seeks to recover the Indian experience of the First World War and how it affected, and in turn was configured. The First World War brings out amidst the Indian political bourgeoisie a strange conjunction of imperialist zeal and nationalist aspirations that defy the neat retrospective political narratives of either imperialism or nationalism. Keywords: empire; First World War; imperialism; India; Nationalism; nationalist leaders; sepoys; Western Front

  • touch and intimacy in First World War literature
    2006
    Co-Authors: Santanu Das
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    Introduction: 'Touch is the spirit and rule of all' Part I. Mud: 1. 'A real monster that sucked': the threat of mud in First World War literature 2. Muddy narratives Part II. Intimacies: 3. 'Kiss me, Hardy': the dying kiss in the First World War trenches 4. Wilfred Owen and the sense of touch Part III. Wounds: 5. 'Deep into his body': service, sympathy and suffering in the nurses' memoirs 6. The operating theatre Conclusion Bibliography.

Annika Mombauer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The German centenary of the First World War
    War & Society, 2017
    Co-Authors: Annika Mombauer
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    In the run up to the 2014 centenary of the First World War, the German public was gripped by a heated debate on the origins of the War. This article explores the nature of this controversy and its role in shaping national commemoration of the Great War. It also draws parallels between the commemorations of the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the War in 1964 and those of 2014. Through a comparison of Germany’s national memories of the War with those in Britain and France, the article also reveals how different and sometimes conflicting national interpretations of the history of the First World War have affected centenary commemoration. Memories of the First World War are nation-specific, constructed and developed over time to suit a particular view of a country’s past. Moreover, they can be instrumental in influencing that country’s future development and relations with its neighbours.

  • The Origins of the First World War: diplomatic and military documents
    2013
    Co-Authors: Annika Mombauer
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    This book is a unique collection of diplomatic and military documents for the years leading up to the outbreak of the First World War. It brings together newly-discovered documents as well as many not previously available in English, drawn from a broad range of sources and countries. It is an essential collection for anyone studying the origins of the First World War. The collection contains several hundred international documents, selected because they are vital to understanding the many remaining controversies on the War’s origins. The volume includes a detailed scholarly introduction which analyses the most controversial issues in the debate on the origins of the First World War on the eve of the centenary. It also provides a detailed overview of the history of the publication of official document collections on the War’s origins. The documents are then divided into two parts: the First covering the period 1911-1914; the second addressing the July Crisis and immediate outbreak of War. The First World War continues to fascinate scholars, students and the general public. Anyone studying the origins of the War will find this collection indispensible. Documents are an essential component of historical study, particularly for this controversial topic about which historians have argued for the best part of a century. The documents in this volume are thoroughly cross-referenced and annotated, and presented with authoritative commentary. It allows readers to make connections between the documents to illuminate how the decisions for War were made, and why.

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  • 10. Homecoming. Jan Patočka’s Reflections on the First World War
    Phenomenologies of Violence, 2014
    Co-Authors: Nicolas De Warren
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    Jan Patocka's reflections on the First World War are among the challenging writings produced in response to the War to end all Wars. Patocka's reflections on the First World War also close with the problem of homecoming and the return of the dead: how to bring the significance of the First World War back to the World of natural existence? And yet, in contrast with Gance's J'accuse , Patocka's homecoming is not the haunting of the living by the dead, but the haunting of the living by another form of living, or existence, transfigured by the front and who, in this crucible of rebirth and revelation, embody an insight and perspective from which to haunt the return of the day that characterizes the post-War. The call to conscience drawn from the front in the testimonials of Teilhard de Chardin and Junger is meant to awaken the living to their own deadness. Keywords: First World War; Jan Patocka; testimonials of Junger; testimonials of Teilhard de Chardin