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“peter liddle”

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  • The 1916 Battle of the Somme Reconsidered

    by Peter Liddle ...
    Twenty-four years after the publication of his classic study of the Somme, Peter Liddle reconsiders the battle in the light of recent scholarship. The battle still gives rise to fierce debate and, with Passchendaele, it is often seen as the epitome of the tragic folly of the First World War. But is this a reasoned judgement? Peter Liddle, in this authoritative study, re-examines the concept and ... Read more

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  • Facing Armageddon

    The First World War Experience

    by Hugh Cecil, Peter Liddle ...
    Facing Armageddon is the first scholarly work on the 1914-18 War to explore, on a world-wide basis, the real nature of the participants experience. Sixty-four scholars from all over the globe deliver the fruits of recent research in what civilians and servicemen passed through, in the air, on the sea and on land. ... Read more

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  • 1914

    Voices from the Battlefields

    by Matthew Richardson ...
    The opening battles of WWI's Western Front and the world-changing advances in warfare are reexamined through eyewitness accounts from the trenches.The 1914 campaign of World War I, sparked by the German Army's invasion of Luxembourg, Belgium, and France, marked a watershed in military history. Advances in weaponry forced both sides to take to the earth in what became a grueling standoff of trench ... Read more

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  • Britain and Victory in the Great War

    by Peter Liddle ...
    How can we begin to make sense of the Great War now that over 100 years have passed since it ended with the defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria, and the collapse of Tsarist Russia? The conflict had such a profound influence on world history that is it difficult to reconcile the different perspectives and draw clear conclusions. That is why this thought-provoking ... Read more

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  • Captured Memories, 1930–1945

    Across the Threshold of War: The Thirties and the War

    by Peter Liddle ...
    In this sequel to his successful first volume Peter Liddle brings his years of Oral History experience to the Thirties and the Second World War. He was the founder/Director of a new archive in 1999 specifically dedicated to the rescue of evidence of the Second World War which now documents the lives of more than nine thousand people in that war. Many of the most vivid recollections he has recorded ... Read more

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  • Britain Goes to War

    How the First World War Began to Reshape the Nation

    Edited by Peter Liddle ...
    The First World War had a profound impact on British society and on British relations with continental Europe, the Dominions, the United States and the emerging Soviet Union. The pre-war world was transformed, and the world that we recognize today began to take shape. That is why, 100 years after the outbreak, the time is right for this collection of thought-provoking chapters that reassesses why ... Read more

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  • Britain's Great War Experience

    Life at Home and Abroad, 1914–1918

    by Peter Liddle ...
    Expertly written and beautifully presented, this book of outstanding photographs, documents and art work captures the spirit of the British people as they faced and successfully came through the prolonged challenge of the First World War. Using previously unpublished material from the Liddle Collection in the University Library at Leeds and supporting this with photographs from private and public ... Read more

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  • Britain and a Widening War, 1915–1916

    From Gallipoli to the Somme

    by Peter Liddle ...
    In a series of concise, thought-provoking chapters the authors summarize and make accessible the latest scholarship on the middle years of the Great War 1915 and 1916 and cover fundamental issues that are rarely explored outside the specialist journals. Their work is an important contribution to advancing understanding of Britains role in the war, and it will be essential reading for anyone who is ... Read more

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  • The Gallipoli Experience Reconsidered

    by Peter Liddle ...
    In The Gallipoli Experience Reconsidered, World War I historian Peter Liddle reexamines the British military operation that ended in Allied defeat.The Gallipoli Campaign is generally viewed as a disastrous failure of the First World War, inadequately redeemed by the heroism of the soldiers and sailors who were involved in the fighting. But before the first landings were made, the concept of a ... Read more

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  • A Woman Living in the Shadow of the Second World War

    Helena Hall's Journal from the Home Front

    by Helena Hall ...
    "These previously unpublished diaries of an English woman surviving the war at home provide a fascinating insight into society and life" ( Firetrench).Helena Hall's daily diary of the war years, from 1940 to 1945, is one of the most vivid, detailed and evocative personal records of the Second World War as it was experienced by people living in an English village. In her journal she describes her ... Read more

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  • Captured Memories, 1900–1918

    Across the Threshold of War

    by Peter Liddle ...
    Peter Liddle was a pioneer in the recording of memories of personal experience in the First World War and in the social background of those who lived through those years. Later he moved into the recording of men and women for whom the Second World War was the formative experience of their lives. In a planned two volume collection of the most outstanding interviews of the four thousand he made, for ... Read more

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  • The Great World War 1914–1945

    1. Lightning Strikes Twice

    by Peter Liddle, John Bourne, Ian Whitehead ...
    Comparing and contrasting the World Wars.This will be a landmark in military history: a collaborative venture between historians from 20 different countries addressing every aspect of the two world wars. The scope of the book is enormous. From frontline combat to civilian experience, women and children in wartime, genocide etc.The Face of BattleLeadership in the warsCivilians in the warsNational ... Read more

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