Memoirs & Diaries - IntroductionMany of the combatants of the First World War recorded the daily events of their experiences in the form of a diary. Some were subsequently published after the war and have become celebrated. Many more, however, remained tucked away in cupboard drawers for years...
attached 21St Division in France; March 1917 to end of War, Lieut. in Tank Corps; 1st Battalion.March Retreat 1918, Villers-Bretonneux, April 1918, attack of August 8th (Battle of Amiens). M.C. gained for fighting enemy tanks at Villers-Bretonneux....
Canada joined the First World War on August 4, 1914, alongside Great Britain and the rest of the British Empire. What began as a mobile war quickly turned into a static one, with the entrenchment of the Allied and Entente armies. By 1915, the momentum that had previously animated early fi...
The memoirs, letters and diaries from the Western Front confirm that the hideous noise of battle worked its way inside the very body of the soldier. I’ve got pages of examples, but here is just one,Edward LynchinSomme Mud(and, for that matter, in Somme mud): ‘The shells are missing...
The Battle of Arras was a British offensive during the First World War. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British, Canadian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and Australian troops attacked German trenches near the French city of Arras on the Western Front. For much of the war, the opposing armies on...
In Britain crucial primary documents about the lies and deceit surrounding the First World War through diaries, memoirs and important letters were censored and altered, evidence sifted, removed, burned, carefully ‘selected’ and falsified. Bad as that may be, it is of relatively minor importance ...
First World War Multimedia history contains background information, battlefield tours, battles, who's who, and a gallery of propaganda posters. Also displays diaries and memoirs of those who lived through the war and that era as well as poetry and stories of the time. ...
The Royal Australian Navy, 1914-1918by Jose can be downloaded from theAustralian War Memorial. Secondary Books, Memoirs and Journal Articles Books below highlighted inboldcan be downloaded from theInternet Archive. Superior Forceand other books by G. Miller can be viewed online atnavalhistory.co....
5. Reflections of war: Changes in tactics and technology in the diaries and memoirs of Canadian soldiers, 1916–1918 [D] . Randall, Mark 2008 机译:战争的反思:1916-1918年加拿大士兵日记和回忆录中战术和技术的变化 6. Justice to the maimed soldier: nursing medical care and welfare for sick...
Cinematic Corpographies: Re-Mapping the War Film Through the Body. Writing on the relationship between war and cinema has largely been dominated by an emphasis on optics and weaponised vision. However, as this analysis of the Hollywood war film will show, a wider sensory field is powerfully ...