The Rhetoric of Disfigurement in First World War Britain [PDF]
Soc Hist Med, 2011 During the First World War, the horror of facial mutilation was evoked in journalism, poems, memoirs and fiction; but in Britain it was almost never represented visually outside the professional contexts of clinical medicine and medical history.
Biernoff, Suzannah, S. Biernoff
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British Women Writers and the First World War [PDF]
, 2023 openThe First World War was fought between 1914 and 1918 and it is still considered an epoch-making event, since it involved countries from all over the world and virtually all the strata of society, without counting the great number of casualties and ...
ZUCCOLLO, VERONICA
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Death and memory on the Home Front: Second World War commemoration in the South Hams, Devon [PDF]
, 2010 This is the publisher's PDF of an article published in Cambridge archaeological journal© 2010. The definitive version is available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CAJThis article discusses two World War II monuments - the ...
Walls, Samuel, Williams, Howard
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Des caisses, des œuvres et des hommes. Une histoire logistique de l’art durant la Grande Guerre
Perspective, 2022 Questions relating to the physical transport of objects, often left aside by historiography instead concentrated on the phenomena of artistic circulation and transfer, are decisive in the context of a conflict such as the Great War due to demanding ...
Solène Amice
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Croatian-Slavonian Jews in the First World War
Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2016 This paper seeks to present various levels of the Croatian-Slavonian Jews’ experience of the First World War. To begin with, although several war memorials are known to have been preserved, the scope of Jewish casualties remains unknown, having been a ...
Filip Hamersak, Ljiljana Dobrovsak
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THE SERBIAN ARMY AND ITS STRUGGLE WITH THE AMMUNITION CRISIS OF 1914 [PDF]
Istorija 20. VekaThe 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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Physical Control, Transformation, and Damage in the First World War: War Bodies
, 2021 From enlistment in 1914 to the end of service in 1918, British men’s bodies were constructed, conditioned, and controlled in the pursuit of allied victory.
Walker, Simon Harold
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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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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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