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Bodies of War: Disabilities and Heroism in the First World War

open access: yesJournal of Lusophone Studies, 2018
In the present article, I analyze discourses of masculinity and the male body associated with Portugal’s involvement in World War I. I examine these from three perspectives: the national military body; medical and political discussion of disabled bodies;
Rhian Atkin
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Developing Deadly Skies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Canadian War Museum’s exhibition Deadly Skies – Air War, 1914-1918 examines the first air war from the perspective of nine international participants representing Canada, the United States, France, Great Britain, and Germany.
Maker, John
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“A disgrace to the country they belong to”: the sexualisation of female soldiers in First World War Britain

open access: yesRevue LISA, 2008
Cet article, qui aborde la représentation « sexuelle » des femmes soldats britanniques lors de la Première Guerre mondiale, démontre que l’entrée des femmes dans les forces armées déstabilisait aussi bien l’image de la masculinité que celle de la ...
Lucy Noakes
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The First World War

open access: yes, 1991
Abstract This is a completely new interpretation of the First World War. Dr Offer weaves together the economic and social history of the English-speaking world, the Pacific Basin, and Germany, with the development of food production and consumption.
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Learning the Fighting Game: Black Americans and the First World War

open access: yes, 2015
The experience of African American veterans of the First World War is most often cast through the bloody lens of the Red Summer of 1919, when racial violence and lynchings reached record highs across the nation as black veterans returned from the global ...
Instituto agrícola Murciano de San Isidro   +1 more
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Destruction  du patrimoine et figure du soldat allemand dans les cartes postales de la Grande Guerre

open access: yesAmnis, 2010
The Great War’s illustrated postcards, specifically concerning topographical views of ruins, in spite of being a neglected source, can still reveal, even after reconstructions have long erased every trace of  war, the impacts of artillery and explosives ...
Emmanuelle Danchin
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La guerre en héritage [PDF]

open access: yesPolis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2020
The impact of the First World War goes far beyond those directly involved in the conflict and leaves its mark on the generations to come. In his book Quelle histoire.
Adelina-Maria BOCANCEA
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The First World War Baize Fraud Case

open access: yesErdélyi Jogélet
In the first year of the First World War, several cases of war transport abuse came to light in Hungary, which were of great social interest and caused extremely significant material and moral damage.
Roland Kelemen
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“The moaning of the world” and the “words that bring me peace”: Modernism and the First World War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This chapter takes its place in a huge new project on twentieth-century British and American war literature. It focuses on technology and sense perception in First World War writing in its account of the formal and contextual relationships between ...
Haslam, Sara
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Talking about War: dialogues in World War One novels

open access: yesLinguistica, 2018
This article discusses problems involved in the literary representation of argot and spoken language in the context of the First World War based on the analysis of a multilingual corpus including the French novel Le Feu, written by Henri Barbusse in ...
Sabine Bastian, Thomas Sähn
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