War and Citizenship: Enemy Aliens and National Belonging from the French Revolution to the First World War (Caglioti Daniela L.)(Pevná vazba)

War and Citizenship: Enemy Aliens and National Belonging from the French Revolution to the First World War (Caglioti Daniela L.)(Pevná vazba)

Daniela L. Caglioti shows how states at war, when faced with real or alleged security threats, redrew the boundaries between members and non-members, thus redefining belonging and the path to citizenship. A key text for those interested in questions of citizenship, human rights, immigration,

Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe (Buelens Geert)(Pevná vazba)

The poets' Great War: violence, revolution and modernism The First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires collapsed, new countries were born, revolutions shocked and inspired the world. This tumult, sometimes referred to as 'the literary war', saw an extraordinary outpouring of

World Wars (Brook Henry)(Pevná vazba)

An accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the First World War and the Second World War, stunningly illustrated with dramatic contemporary photographs, paintings, posters and maps. This beautifully presented hardback book tells the story of both conflicts, from the trenches of the First

First World War (Keegan John)(Paperback / softback)

The definitive account of the Great War and a national bestseller from eminent military historian John Keegan2018 marks the centenary of the First World War - the war that created the modern

Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front (Boff Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John

The French Air Force in the First World War (Sumner Ian)(Paperback)

The French air force of the First World War developed as fast as the British and German air forces, yet its history, and the enormous contribution it made to the eventual French victory, is often forgotten. So Ian Sumner's photographic history, which features almost 200 images, most of which have

Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 (Todman Daniel)(Pevná vazba)

The second volume of Daniel Todman's account of Great Britain and World War II The second of Daniel Todman's two sweeping volumes on Great Britain and World War II, Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947, begins with the event Winston Churchill called the 'worst disaster' in British military

Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order (Shovlin John)(Pevná vazba)

Britain and France waged war eight times in the century following the Glorious Revolution, a mutual antagonism long regarded as a 'Second Hundred Years' War.' Yet officials on both sides also initiated ententes, free trade schemes, and colonial bargains intended to avert future conflict. What drove

The Great War in the Argonne Forest: French and American Battles, 1914-1918 (Merry Richard)(Pevná vazba)

The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. The largest American operation launched against the Germans during the conflict. During 1914 and 1915 though, amidst the dense forest, French and Italian soldiers withstood

The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (Willis Deborah)(Pevná vazba)

A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography

The Cambridge History of the First World War, Volume 2: The State (Winter Jay)(Pevná vazba)

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of the state. It explores the multifaceted history of state power and highlights the ways in which different political systems responded to,

The French Army and the First World War (Greenhalgh Elizabeth)(Paperback)

This is a comprehensive new history of the French army's critical contribution to the Great War. Ranging across all fronts, Elizabeth Greenhalgh examines the French army's achievements and failures and sets these in the context of the difficulties of coalition warfare and the relative strengths and

Britain and the Arab Middle East: World War I and Its Aftermath (Lieshout Robert H.)(Pevná vazba)

The profound effects of the British Empire's actions in the Arab world during the First World War can be seen echoing through the history of the 20th century. The uprising sparked by the Husayn-McMahon correspondence and led by 'Lawrence of Arabia;' the Sykes-Picot agreement which undermined that

That Sweet Enemy - The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present (Tombs Isabelle)(Paperback / softback)

Their rivalry both on peace and war, for good and ill, has shaped the modern world, from North America to India in the eighteenth century, in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and it is still shaping Europe

For King and Kaiser: Scenes from Saxony's War in Flanders 1914-1918 (Lucas Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Following on from their pioneering account of the Saxon army in the First World War -Fighting the Kaiser's War - Andrew Lucas and J rgen Schmieschek have compiled this remarkable sequel which covers Saxony's war in Flanders in much greater detail. Once again they draw on vivid extracts from

Tender is the Night (Scott Fitzgerald F.)(Pevná vazba)

Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash, the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to

The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia (Schneer Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they conspired to overthrow Lenin's newly established

Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II (Makos Adam)(Pevná vazba)

From the bestselling author of A Higher Call comes the untold story of a World War II tank company fighting from Normandy to the Rhine, where a humble gunner would meet destiny in an iconic duel. Clarence Smoyer began the war as a gentle giant, a factory worker from Pennsylvania coal country

First World War, the Universities and the Professions in Australia 1914-1939 (Waghorne James)(Pevná vazba)

Otto Dix and the First World War: Grotesque Humor, Camaraderie and Remembrance (Weikop Christian)(Pevná vazba)

Otto Dix fought in the First World War for four years before becoming one of the most important artists of the Weimar era. This book takes Dix's very public, monumental works out of the isolation of the artist's studio and returns them to a context of public memorials, mass media depictions, and

The Cambridge History of the First World War, Volume 3: Civil Society (Winter Jay)(Pevná vazba)

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years

Ironside - The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Lord Ironside (Ironside Lord Edmund)(Pevná vazba)

From spying in the Boer War through brigade command in the First World War and the White Army in Russia in 1919, to Chief of the Imperial General Staff and Commander-in-Chief Home Forces in the Second - this was a man born to

Napoleon's Peninsular War: The French Experience of the War in Spain from Vimeiro to Corunna, 1808-1809 (Dawson Paul L.)(Pevná vazba)

Memoirs of British soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War are commonplace and histories of the momentous campaigns and battles of Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, can be numbered by the score. Yet surprisingly little has been published in English on their

Aero-Neurosis: Pilots of the First World War and the Psychological Legacies of Combat (Wilkins Mark C.)(Pevná vazba)

The young men who flew and fought during the First World War had no idea what was awaiting them. The rise of science and nationalism during the late 19th and early 20th centuries came to a head in 1914. The 'technology shock' that coalesced at the Western Front was not envisaged by any of the