Название: The Great World War 1914–1945: 1. Lightning Strikes Twice
Автор: John Bourne
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Историческая литература
isbn: 9780007598182
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Robin Neillands
Chapter 16 The experience of killing
Joanna Bourke
Chapter 17 The experience of captivity: British and Commonwealth prisoners in Germany
Peter H. Liddle and S. P. McKenzie
Chapter 18 Casualties and British medical services
Nick Bosanquet and Ian Whitehead
Chapter 19 Spies, codebreakers and secret agents
M. R. D. Foot
PART II THE EXPERIENCE OF LEADERSHIP
Chapter 20 Monarchy in wartime: King George V and King George VI
Hugo Vickers
Chapter 21 Political leaders in wartime: Lloyd George and Churchill
George H. Cassar
Chapter 22 Erich Ludendorff and Tôjô Hideki: some comparisons
Peter Wetzler
Chapter 23 Foch and Eisenhower: Supreme Commanders
Frank E. Vandiver
Chapter 24 General Brusilov and Marshal Zhukov, June 1916 and June 1944
John Erickson
Chapter 25 Reflections on the experience of British generalship
G. D. Sheffield
Chapter 26 Coalition war: the Anglo-American experience
Dennis E. Showalter
Chapter 27 Coalition war: Britain and France
William Philpott
Chapter 28 Coalition war: Germany and her Allies, Austria-Hungary and Italy
Gary W. Shanafelt and G. T. Waddington
PART III THE EXPERIENCE OF OCCUPATION
Chapter 29 The experience of occupation: Belgium
Mark Derez
Chapter 30 The experience of occupation: Northern France
Margaret Atack
Chapter 31 The experience of occupation: Poland
Anita J. Prazmowska
Chapter 32 The experience of displacement: refugees and war
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Chapter 33 The experience of genocide: Armenia 1915–16 and Romania 1941–42
Mark Levene
A part from debates about the international ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles, historians have tended to study the two world wars in isolation. This has been justified by the assumption that the two conflicts were qualitatively and quantitatively different. The First World War has more often than not been regarded as a ‘bad’ war resulting from failures in diplomacy, and a war characterised by the ‘futile’ sacrifices of trench warfare on the Western Front; standing in stark contrast to the justifiable and necessary struggle, between 1939 and 1945, against Nazi tyranny and aggressive Japanese militarism. In the First World War the civilian populations of the belligerent powers played an increasingly vital part in the war effort. But it is the Second World War, with its indiscriminate bombing of cities placing civilians in the front line, and technology taking man’s destructive powers to new heights, that is more usually seen as the first truly ‘total’ war. To treat the wars separately in this fashion, however, is to ignore a significant historical reality – all those who were over forty years of age in 1940 would have had their adult lives in some sense defined by their participation, or non-participation, in these two global conflicts. It is this continuum of human experience that firmly unites the world wars, and which is the focus both of this book and its successor volume.
The aim throughout is to demonstrate the diversity of personal experience in the two world wars. This volume examines uniformed service and such aspects of civilian experience as occupation, displacement and genocide. It discusses the exercise of political and СКАЧАТЬ