Sacrifice and Modern War Literature Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 17 June 2024

This book explores how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. Each chapter presents fresh insights into the literature of

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 17 June 2024

This book explores how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. Each chapter presents fresh insights into the literature of

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 51,7 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

In the popular imagination, World War I stands for the horror of all wars. The unprecedented scale of the war and the mechanized weaponry it introduced to battle brought an

• Publisher : Berghahn Books
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• Release Date : 01 January 2016

When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 07 April 2022

Life, Death, and the Western Way of War traces when and how western soldiers—once regarded as simple fighting tools—became the far less expendable beings that we know today.

• Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
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• Release Date : 13 August 2021

The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 24 July 2012

This “layered, nuanced, and focused study” of Civil War era writings reveals a popular sense of patriotism and hope in the midst of loss (Journal of American History). The American

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• File Size : 23,9 Mb
• Release Date : 31 January 2023

Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the

• Publisher : McFarland
• File Size : 45,8 Mb
• Release Date : 16 October 2012

In song, verse, narrative, and dramatic form, war literature has existed for nearly all of recorded history. Accounts of war continue to occupy American bestseller lists and the stacks of

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 20 May 2021

Comprehensive reading of 'late' Wordsworth, considering his work in dialogue with the poetic, cultural and political battles of his day.