Inside World War One? : the First World War and its witnesses / edited by Richard Bessel and Dorothee Wierling.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

German Historical Institute in London.

Bessel, Richard.

Wierling, Dorothee, 1950-

Conference Name:

Inside World War One? (2014 : German Historical Institute London)

Series:

Studies of the German Historical Institute London

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Biography--Criticism and interpretation.

World War, 1914-1918.

Biography.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 346 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Inside World War 1?

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

With the centenary of the First World War, interest in the war has increased and research about the war has developed in new directions. This timely volume combines two of these new directions: an increased interest in ego documents from the Great War, and an increased interest in the First World War beyond the Western Front. The essays assembled here, written by an international team of scholars, analyse the testimonies of people who lived through that war.

Contents:

1. Inside World War One? Ego documents and the First World War / Richard Bessel and Dorothee Wierling

2. Registers of everyday life in Warsaw during the First World War : the uses and limitations of ego documents / Robert Blobaum

3. Measuring lost time : civilians' diaries under military occupation : Flemish and Francophone diaries in German-occupied Belgium, 1914-1918 / Sophie de Schaepdrijver

4. Ego documents from the invasion of East Prussia, 1914-1915 / Alexander Watson

5. 'It was more than madness' : perceptions of war among Slovenian soldiers, 1914-1918 / Pavlina Bobič

6. The thine white line : remembering the Alpine front in the First World War / Roberta Pergher

7. Counter-narratives of the Great War? War accounts of nurses in Austro-Hungarian service / Christa Hämmerle

8. Front experience and psychological problems : the voices of doctors and patients in case studies and patient files / Andrea G. von Hohenthal

9. Inside the Ottoman army : two Armenian officers tell their story / Mustafa Aksakal

10. Uncovering the colonial cultures and encounters of the British Empire during the First World War / Anna Maguire

11. Publishing ego documents as war propaganda / Gerd Krumeich

A Vita Nova : the construction of a war-life experience in Italian First World War autobiographical writing / Marco Mondini

13. Alloying dissent with patriotism : Dragiša Vasić in Yugoslav Siberia / John Paul Newman

14. The apotheosis of the unknown soldier : officers, soldiers, and the writing of the Great War in Russia / Joshua Sanborn

15. 'Emplotting the witness' : Henri Barbusse and Marc Bloch / Leonard V. Smith.

Notes:

"Conference, held at the German Historical Institute London in October 2014"--Page v.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0198820593

9780198820598

OCLC:

1005117609

Publisher Number:

99977635498