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Reclasser les victimes de la Première Guerre mondiale : Le cas de la loi du 30 janvier 1923 sur les emplois réservés en France (1923-1939)

Amnis, 2006
In 1923, the French parliament members adopted a law reserving jobs in administrations and public establishments for war victims. The objective was to promote the social integration of thousands of war wounded, widows and orphans.
Peggy Bette
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THE SERBIAN ARMY AND ITS STRUGGLE WITH THE AMMUNITION CRISIS OF 1914 [PDF]

Istorija 20. Veka
The paper discusses the key problem of the Serbian artillery in 1914: the lack of ammunition. The focus of analysis has been placed on the different strategies the Serbian state used to find artillery ammunition and additional weapons.
Danilo Šarenac
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Demographic losses of Serbia in the first world war and their long-term consequences [PDF]

Ekonomski Anali, 2014
Proportional to the total population, Serbia was the country with the highest number of casualties in the First World War. According to the first estimates presented at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, total Serbian casualties were 1,250,000,
Radivojević Biljana, Penev Goran
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The Participation of Greece (Hellas) in the First World War: Literary Representation [PDF]

Polish Journal of English Studies, 2016
The article presents Greek novels about the country’s participation in the First World War, a particularly interesting case, since Greece was an important secondary theatre of war.
Konstantinos D. Karatzas
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The centenary commemorations of the Great War in Belgium

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2016
As the start of the centenary commemoration of the First World War (wwi) in 2014 drew closer, Belgium saw the rise of a bigger ‘commemorative competition’. The different governments launched their own commemorative programmes, parallel to (and sometimes
Nico Wouters
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Soldado de África! Quantas medalhas te puseram no peito? Portugal e África numa Guerra Global

Ler História, 2014
Why being the Portuguese empire so embedded in the Portuguese imaginary the African war front where Portugal was present between 1914 and 1918, and to where the country mobilized around 50,000 men ended up overshadowed by the non-consensual intervention ...
Maria Fernanda Rollo
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Conny Kristel, De oorlog van anderen. Nederlanders en oorlogsgeweld, 1914–1918

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2017
Conny Kristel, De oorlog van anderen. Nederlanders en oorlogsgeweld, 1914–1918 (Amsterdam, De Bezige Bij, 2016, 368 pp, isbn: 978023497394).
Maartje Abbenhuis
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Commemorating a ‘Foreign’ War in a Neutral Country The Political Insignificance of World War 1 Memory in the Netherlands

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2016
The recent creation of a First World War museum exhibit at Huis Doorn reflects the increased Dutch attention paid to this war, accompanying the international Centenary efforts, although the neutral Netherlands had not been actively involved in the ...
Kees Ribbens
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Patriotisme philanthropique et citoyenneté féminine : les femmes et la Primrose League, 1914-1918

Revue LISA, 2008
This article studies women’s participation in the work of philanthropic patriotism conducted by the Primrose League, a Conservative organisation which remained in activity throughout the First World War.
Philippe Vervaecke
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Regulation 40D : punishing promiscuity on the home front during the First World War [PDF]

, 2016
In 1918, the British War Office introduced Regulation 40D as an amendment to the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA). The short- lived regulation allowed the state to remand and imprison a woman for the transmission of venereal disease to a member of His ...
Lammasniemi, Laura
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