IWM First World War Remembered (Imperial War Museum): (Including DVD) - Hardcover

Gary Sheffield

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9780233004051: IWM First World War Remembered (Imperial War Museum): (Including DVD)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023300405X ISBN 13: 9780233004051

Publisher: Andre Deutsch Ltd, 2014

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One hundred years after the Austrians fired the first shots of war against the Serbs, the events of the First World War are remembered as some of the most devastating and traumatic in history. From the brutal carnage of the Somme, Arras, Passchendaele and Gallipoli to colonial campaigns in Africa, Mesopotamia and Palestine, from revolution in Russia to civil war in Ireland. The First World War Remembered brings the conflicts of 1914-1918 to life as never before. Gary Sheffield s authoritative text is supplemented by over 200 photographs and colour battle maps, as well as more than 30 painstakingly researched rare facsimile documents personal and unit war diaries, letters, secret plans and telegrams, orders, maps and posters that until now have filed or exhibited in museums and archives around the world, including: Kitchener s orders to the British Expeditionary Force sent to France in 1914, A letter describing the Christmas Truce of 1914, Douglas Haig s handwritten draft of his famous Back to the Wall order. Produced in association with Imperial War Museums, this is the ultimate interactive guide to The Great War. The DVD in this book contains a film entitled Our Empire s Fight for Freedom and a series of Veteran s first-hand accounts entitled We Fought on the Western Front.

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Potent weapons in the war against the ebook. --The Independent, June 2014

Sheffield is one of our finest historians, and his account of the war is as cogent as it is incisive. --Event Magazine, Mail on Sunday, 1st June 2014

The conflicts of World War I are brought vividly to life in this special centenary edition by... Gary Sheffield... this interactive war guide features more than 200 photographs and colour battle maps and 30 replica research documents, from unit war diaries to secret letters. --Family Tree Magazine

About the Author:

Professor Gary Sheffield is Chair of War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, having previously taught at the University of Birmingham and 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.

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