World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933
Unpacks the politics and processes of the competing interest groups involved in the three core components of commemoration: repatriation, remembrance, and return. This book describes how relatives of the fallen made pilgrimages to French battlefields, attended largely by American Legionnaires and the Gold Star Mothers.
Almost 100 years after the Treaty of Versailles was signed, World War I continues to be badly understood and greatly oversimplified. This work contains a selection of articles and book chapters written by major scholars of World War I, giving readers perspectives on the war that are both historical and contemporary.
This is imperial Germany's handbook of warfare in World War 1. It talks about allowed and prohibited conduct during war. It includes treatment of enemy prisoners of war, non-combatants, hostages, 'war rebels', spies, terrorists; private property, booty, plundering, war levies; administration of enemy territory and treatment of inhabitants.
The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I
Fever of War examines the impact of the deadly 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers whose inflated sense of their ability to prevent disease caused them to undermine the severity of the epidemic.
The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I
Fever of War examines the impact of the deadly 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers whose inflated sense of their ability to prevent disease caused them to undermine the severity of the epidemic.
Presents the history of the female spies who served Britain during World War I, focusing on both the powerful cultural images of the woman spy and the realities, challenges, and contradictions of intelligence service. This book interrogates contradictory constructions of gender in the competing spheres of espionage activity.
From Theodore Roosevelt to FDR in the Century of American Power, 1901-19
A lively tour of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, this book traces the development of America's industrial power and its commercial deployment, at home and abroad. It sets the American story within the dramatic context of the rise and fall of political empires in Europe and Asia and two devastating world wars.
