The First World War in 100 Objects Gary Sheffield

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Offers a unique perspective on the First World War through an examination of public and office items such as the railway carriage where the the Armistice was signed and Siegfried Sassoon's letter of protest, but also personal objects like the Queen's chocolate box given to troops in 1914.

The First World War in 100 Objects Zusammenfassung

The First World War in 100 Objects: The Story of the Great War Told Through the Objects that Shaped It Gary Sheffield

The First World War was one of the seminal events in world history. The First World War in 100 Objects offers a unique perspective on the world's first truly global conflict. It traces its history through the examination of iconic items like the Zeppelin, the gas mask, and Winston Churchill's cigar, to personal objects which tell the poignant stories of individuals and official documents, medals and badges.

Fully illustrated, each object is accompanied by approximately 500 words of text giving the item context and highlighting its significance.

Über Gary Sheffield

Professor Gary Sheffield was appointed Chair of War Studies at the University of Birmingham in 2006, having previously taught as a Professor of Modern History at King's College, London. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts and has written widely on twentieth-century military history especially the First World War. In 2003, he shared the Templer Medal for Military Literature for his contribution to The British General Staff: Innovation and Reform (2002). Gary regularly broadcasts on radio and television, and his work has appeared in the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday, the Times Literary Supplement and BBC History Magazine. He lives in Oxfordshire.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction * Entries for 100 objects which played key parts in the history of the First World War, ranging from Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car in 1914 to the Big Bertha Gun, a Turkish pith helmet, Simpson's Donkey, a gas mask, T. E. Lawrence's headdress, a pigeon, the Blue Max, the keys of Jerusalem, a Mark V Tank, the railway carriage used to sign the Armistice and a tomb of an unknown warrior * Index * Picture Credits.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR009611904

ISBN 13

9780233005232

ISBN 10

0233005234

Titel

The First World War in 100 Objects: The Story of the Great War Told Through the Objects that Shaped It Gary Sheffield

Autor

Gary Sheffield

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Gebraucht - Wie Neu

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Welbeck Publishing Group

Datum

20170907

Anzahl der Seiten

256

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