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La primera guerra mundial sigue siendo en la memoria colectiva «la gran guerra»; todo lo que se refiere a ella despierta un amplio interés y los libros dedicados a su estudio aumentan de año en año.

Una radiografía de la Primera Guerra Mundial.Desde la caída del Imperio romano, la Primera Guerra Mundial es, según los expertos, el acontecimiento histórico más relevante acaecido en nuestro continente. Peter Englud (prestigioso historiador, ademas de secretario perpetuo de la Academia sueca) ahonda en ese periodo con admirable rigor, aunque su originalidad reside en su estilo, en su objetivo: el de plasmar, de un modo antiheroico, todo un universo emocional. Aqui se funden la Historia -la guerra, la revolucion, los campos de batalla- y la historia -la mirada del individuo, de la sociedad, sus miedos y esperanzas.La belleza y el poder de la batalla esta basado en los testimonios -diarios, cartas, fotos- de veinte personas que vivieron la Primera Guerra Mundial. De ellas, dice Englund: Pese a todas las diferencias en cuanto a destino, roles, sexo y nacionalidad les une el hecho de que a cada uno de ellos la guerra les robo algo: la juventud, las ilusiones, la esperanza, la humanidad; la vida. Las impresiones, vivencias y estados de animo de ese puñado de personas cuyos destinos seguimos nos turban a cada rato; los pasajes mas tragicos dan paso a otros de gran humanismo y solidaridad. El resultado es un libro tan contundente y necesario como Vida y destino de Vasili Grossman. Un libro a menudo desgarrador, pero siempre emocionante, conmovedor.Reseña: Este libro es una obra maestra.DN Boklistan

La revolución alemana de 1918-1919 es quizás uno de los acontecimientos peor conocidos y más silenciados del siglo XX. La derrota sufrida en la Gran Guerra, con las ominosas cargas que supuso para la poblacion alemana, propicio una revolucion que si bien trajo consigo el derrocamiento del Estado monarquico y militar del II Reich y la proclamacion de la Republica de Weimar, supuso tambien el fin, paradojicamente, de toda tentativa de constitucion de una democracia socialista. Esta nueva coyuntura politica, que recogia las demandas de las distintas burguesias y de buena parte de las clases subalternas, se concreto tambien en un proyecto socialista que exigia una Republica de Consejos. Es por ello que puede decirse que la Revolucion alemana fue una diversidad de revoluciones, organizada en torno a dos poderes: el sostenido por el Partido Socialdemocrata de Alemania y el encabezado por diferentes grupos radicales como los espartaquistas, que conformaron el Partido Comunista de Alemania, liderado por Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg y Clara Zetkin. Este libro ofrece una reconstruccion de los acontecimientos y de las distintas fuerzas sociales que los configuraron, asi como de los hechos mas relevantes sucedidos en los distintos estados alemanes. Ademas, su descripcion e interpretacion son abordadas a partir de algunos de los ejemplos mas significativos del arte, el teatro, la musica y la filosofia.

For those interested in a more philosphical aspect of war, The Meaning of the War by Henri Bergson is a short non-fiction work that explores Life & Matter in Conflict, as the subtitle of the book tells us.A renowned French philosopher, Bergson delves into the history and politics of war, specifically examining Germany during World War I. This book criticizes the ideology that might is right. A policy that has been fatal for regions that neighbour Germany.To further get insight into the philosophical aspect of war, Sigmund Freuds essay Reflections on War and Death provides a great perspective on the modern mental state of people during WWI.

Drawing upon war diaries, court martial papers and interviews with veterans and family members, award-winning BBC journalist Stephen Walker explains how, often exhausted by battle, or suffering shell-shock, men who refused to fight were branded as cowards, and shot at dawn by a firing squad.From the cities and townlands of Ireland to the killing fields of the Western Front and Gallipoli, Forgotten Soldiers traces the lives of men who enlisted to fight an enemy but ended up being killed by their own side.For decades the full story of how the Irishmen died has largely remained a secret, but now one of the most controversial chapters in British military history can at last be told. In 2006 the British government finally pardoned those soldiers who were shot at dawn. Forgotten Soldiers is the first book to chronicle how relatives and campaigners fought to clear the mens names.

Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash, Mark Gertler, Richard Nevinson and Dora Carrington were five of the most exciting, influential and innovative British artists of the twentieth century. From diverse backgrounds, they met in the years before the Great War as students at the Slade School of Art, where they formed part of what their teacher Henry Tonks described as the schools last crisis of brilliance. To the Bloomsbury Group critic Roger Fry they were les jeunes -- the Young British Artists of their day. As their talents evolved, they became Futurists, Vorticists and Bloomsberries, and befriended the leading writers and intellectuals of the time, from Virginia Woolf and Rupert Brooke to D. H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield. They led the way in fashion with their avant-garde clothes and haircuts; they slept with their models and with prostitutes; their tempestuous love affairs descended into obsession, murder and suicide. And as Europe plunged into the madness of the War to end Wars, they responded to its horror with all the passion and genius they could muster.

La obra estudia las relaciones, las políticas y las discusiones que la primera Guerra Mundial suscitó en América Latina, desde el estallido de la conflagración hasta las consecuencias del armisticio. La obra consta de siete capitulos: I. Latinoamerica en el contexto global previo a 1914; II. Neutralidad bajo presion, 1914-1917; III. El divorcio de 1917; IV. Vias inciertas hacia una nueva era, 1918-1919; V. El fin de un mundo; VI. Nacion y transnacion; y VII. El legado global de la Guerra Mundial.

En agosto de 1914, la historia de la humanidad cambió su curso. Después de un largo período de engañosa calma, ese mes de verano tronaron los cañones en Europa y empezó la Gran Guerra. Con el estallido del conflicto, ya no hubo vuelta atras: se abrio un abismo entre un mundo que moria y otro que marcaria el devenir del convulso siglo XX.Gracias a una increible labor de investigacion y una asombrosa capacidad narrativa, Barbara W. Tuchman alumbro el mejor libro sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial y uno de los Pulitzer de no ficcion mas renombrados, indispensable para entender el mundo que se abrio hace 100 años con el final del conflicto.

La conocida como Gran Guerra (1914-1918) hasta el inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, fue la primera confrontación bélica que abarcó el mundo entero: millones de soldados murieron en combates por aire, tierra y mar. Cayeron imperios, surgieron nuevas naciones y brotaron movimientos ideologicos. La guerra abrio la puerta a una sucesion de grandes acontecimientos historicos, entre los que destacan la Revolucion rusa, el auge del fascismo y el nazismo, la Guerra Fria o el conflicto arabe-israeli, y por eso es fundamental entender lo que ocurrio.

La Gran Guerra no fue tan sólo un confl icto europeo. Eugene Rogan, autor de Los árabes, nos relata esa otra Gran Guerra que se desarrolló en el Oriente Próximo entre el Imperio Otomano, aliado a Alemania, y las potencias coloniales europeas. Una guerra santa proclamada por el sultan turco con la intencion de sublevar contra sus colonizadores a todos los paises islamicos, desde Marruecos a la India, que pudo haber cambiado el resultado fi nal del confl icto. Rogan revive aqui los episodios de esta otra guerra demasiado ignorada: el desastre de Galipoli, en que hubo medio millon de bajas; el genocidio de los armenios, que llevo al exterminio de un millon y medio de seres humanos; la campaña de Mesopotamia, con el dramatico sitio de Kut, una de las mayores derrotas britanicas, o la revuelta arabe, que precipito la derrota de los otomanos y el fi n de un imperio que durante seis siglos habia sido una gran potencia mundial. Unos antecedentes que es preciso conocer para entender la naturaleza de los problemas actuales del Oriente Proximo.

Cuando en febrero de 1915 Mary Borden cruza las puertas de un hospital militar, siente que ha entrado en un lugar de pesadilla. Trabajando de enfermera en los sectores de Ypres y el Somme, esta joven voluntaria de Chicago se convertira en un testigo valioso de los estragos sin precedentes producidos por la Gran Guerra. De sus experiencias desgarradoras detras de la linea de fuego nace uno de los testimonios mas impresionantes escritos por mujeres sobre la Primera Guerra Mundial: La zona prohibida (1929). Recientemente redescubierto por la critica anglosajona, esta edicion presenta por primera vez en España una seleccion de relatos y estampas procedentes de La zona prohibida. La edicion va acompañada de un estudio pormenorizado de la obra y desvela documentacion sobre Mary Borden en el frente que nunca ha sido publicada hasta ahora.

"Great Battles Of The Great War" is a masterwork of historical battle narratives of the First World War. Stephen Crane published this book for the Daily Chronicle. There are numerous maps added and it offers a perfect understanding of many military actions in the course of the war.Contents:I. The Heroic Defence Of LiegeII. The Occupation Of Brussels.III. The Giant Conflict At MonsIV. The Masterly British Retreat.V. How Retreat Led To VictoryVI. Louvain: The Brand Of ShameVII. The Dramatic Turning PointVIII. Paris Prepares For SiegeIX. The Battle Of The MarneX. The Germans Hurled BackXI. The Battle Of The RiversXII. A Historic Tug-Of-WarXIII. The Fall Of AntwerpXIV. The Fight For The ChannelXV. Britannia Rules The WavesXVI. At Helgoland And ElsewhereXVII. Losses And Gains At SeaXVIII. The Eastern CampaignXIX. The Conquering RussiansXX. The Clash Of Slav And TeutonXXI. Great Events On The Vistula

Quando a Primeira Guerra Mundial terminou, em 1918, o saldo era de oito milhões de mortos: o mais apocalíptico episódio que o mundo conhecera até então. Michael Howard, professor de História Moderna

The book is structured around a collection of letters written by a nineteen year old Irish officer in the 6th Royal Irish Regiment, 2nd Lieutenant Michael Wall from Carrick Hill, near Malahide in north Co. Dublin. Michael was educated by the Christian Brothers in Dublin and destined to study science at UCD before being seduced by the illusion of adventure through war. By contextualising and expanding the content of Walls letters and setting them within the entrenched battle zone of the Messines Ridge, Burke offers a unique insight into the trench life this young Irish man experienced, his disillusionment with war and his desire to get home. Burke also presents an account of the origin, preparations and successful execution of the battle to take Wijtschate on 7 June 1917 in which the 16th (Irish) and 36th (Ulster) Divisions played a pivotal role. In conclusion Burke offers an insight into the contentious subject of remembrance of the First World War in Ireland in the late 1920s

IWM was founded on 5 March 1917 when the War Cabinet approved a proposal by Sir Alfred Mond MP for the creation of a national war museum to record the events still taking place during the First World War. The intention was to collect and display material as a record of everyones experiences during the war - civilian and military - and to commemorate the sacrifices of all sections of society.The First World War Retold tells the story of that war from a fresh perspective, fully illustrated with objects, photographs and works of art from IWMs unparalleled collections. It presents events as they happened, through quotations from diaries, letters or reported conversations written or spoken within hours, days or weeks of the events they describe. Through these voices and objects - emotive, immediate, and sometimes surprising - the story of the war is retold from a compelling new angle, allowing us to both understand and reflect upon the landmark conflict that still shapes our lives today.

At the start of the First World War, Arthur Beecroft was a recently qualified barrister in his twenties. Determined to enlist despite a medical condition, he volunteered for military service, first as a regular soldier, then as a despatch rider. Offered a commission in the Royal Engineers, in 1915 he saw action at Gallipoli. Now a byword for catastrophic military disaster, the Gallipoli Campaign was the ill-conceived Allied invasion of the Dardanelles. The campaign stalled almost immediately, resulting in over half a million casualties on both sides. Lucky to survive, several years later Beecroft wrote a detailed memoir of his experiences. Discovered by his granddaughter and now reproduced here almost exactly as it was written nearly a century ago, Beecrofts vivid narrative takes us through those heady days of the declaration of war, enlistment, initial training, the bungled landing at Suvla Bay, and the exceptionally difficult conditions of the Gallipoli terrain. This is no mere jingoistic account. With a keen eye, Beecroft brings to life the men dogged by disease and exhaustion - ordinary soldiers who, even as they suffered the betrayal of incompetent leadership, displayed extraordinary reserves of heroism and bravery. Throughout this rare insight into what it was like for an ordinary civilian soldier swept up in the fog of war, Beecrofts authentic voice still speaks honestly to us today - of comradeship and devotion to duty, of fear and facing death. Now published for the first time in the centenary year of the Gallipoli Campaign, this is a soldiers story in his own words.

The First World War was the defining event of the last century. It claimed the lives of over 16 million people across the globe and had an enormous impact on all who experienced it. No nation in Europe was left untouched, and even neutral states felt its devastating impact. Yet it was the ordinary men and women who were affected the most. This gripping, revealing and poignant collection of stories tells the First World War from the perspective of those who were there, using letters, diaries and memoirs from Imperial War Miuseums unparalled archives.

Historia de un alemán se ha convertido en un clásico de la literatura memorialística germana del siglo XX y, al mismo tiempo, en una obra imprescindible para comprender los complejos procesos que permitieron la aparicion y consolidacion del movimiento nazi en la sociedad alemana entre los años 1914 y 1933.Sebastian Haffner, en esta peculiar autobiografia de juventud, describe su vida como la de un hombre cualquiera, que se ve obligado por las circunstancias a combatir contra un estado totalitario por el derecho a su intimidad y nos ofrece tambien una impecable y aguda reconstruccion de los efectos emocionales que los acontecimientos historicos de esta epoca tuvieron sobre el pueblo aleman. Haffner, en esta magnifica exposicion de su propia vida, narra el itinerario de un joven de derechas durante la exaltacion nacionalista del verano de 1914 al rechazo del mismo movimiento en el verano de 1933. Su objetivo es entender los motivos que han hecho posible el triunfo de Hitler, el monstruo vulgar y soez que describe con palabras fulminantes y su veredicto sobre Alemania y los alemanes es verdaderamente desesperanzado. Historia de un aleman, es, sin lugar a dudas, una de las grandes obras de la literatura del exilio.

This new ebook combines both concise histories of WWI and WWII in one book, written by Pat Morgan and Liam McCann respectively.WWIOn 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, a Bosnian Serb student shot the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The assassination plunged the world into a global conflict that was to scar human history and redefine the meaning of the word war.The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand provided the spark that ignited smouldering enmities, but World War I had been a long time coming. Decades of burgeoning imperialism and the formation of complex alliances brought the worlds great powers face to face in what would become known as the Great War.On one side were ranged the Allies of Great Britain, France and Russia; on the other the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. As time went on and the killing continued, all the worlds powers were drawn into battle and the wars deadly influence touched every corner of the planet.More than seventy million military personnel were mobilised during World War I and more than nine million of them died. The grim figures also included twenty million wounded and eight million missing in action.When the war ended in 1918, four empires had ceased to exist, the map of Europe had been redrawn and a generation of young men had been lost. The combatants had given their all, but their valiant sacrifice was in vain. This book tells the story of the conflict dubbed the war to end wars.WWIIBy 1938 a second war in Europe seemed inevitable. It had only been twenty years since the war to end all wars, and the horrors of conflict were still fresh in the mind, but that didnt stop all sides re-arming and preparing for yet more bloodshed.The settlement at the end of World War One was neither clean nor decisive, and it punished Germany by confiscating territory and forcing the people to pay reparations to help rebuild France and reduce the Allied debt to America. This led to deep-seated anger and resentment among its people.This erudite and moving book explores the underlying causes of the Second World War, its biggest battles and decisive campaigns. From the evacuation at Dunkirk, the Blitz and the Battle of Britain to the failure of Operation Barbarossa and the D-Day Landings in Europe, as well as the war in North Africa and the Pacific, this concise history of the conflict also examines the Final Solution and the ethics surrounding the dropping of two atom bombs on Japan.

Esta obra tiene como propósito presentar los resultados de investigaciones en torno a la Primera Guerra Mundial, conflicto que transcurrió hace más de 100 años y que no solo marcó el final de una época, sino que tambien trazo los lineamientos para una serie de hechos que tuvieron lugar a lo largo del siglo XX. Ademas de presentar una reflexion en torno a la guerra en sus caracteristicas y proyecciones generales, este trabajo hace enfasis en la manera como la Gran Guerra se manifesto en America Latina. Aunque el continente no presencio batallas con tanques o submarinos, enfrentamientos aereos, ataques a bayoneta calada y demas situaciones que se dieron en Europa, si vio como en algunos ambitos de su cotidianidad se manifestaron los ecos de una crisis que parecia lejana; uno de ellos fue en la prensa y medios de comunicacion publica, aspecto que recibe especial atencion en este libro y que demuestra que el mundo, a partir de entonces, comenzaba a hacerse mucho mas pequeño gracias la circulacion de informacion a escala global.