Writing on the Great War at the Centenary: Recent Books on Canada’s First World WarCatching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I. By Neta Gordon. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014. 214 pp. $65.99 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-55458-980-7.The Greatest Victory: Canada’s One Hundred Days, 1918. By J.L. Granatstein. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 216 pp. $29.95 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-19-900931-2.Old Enough to Fight: Canada’s Boy Soldiers in the First World War. By Dan Black and John Boileau. Toronto: James Lorimer, 2013. 448 pp. $34.95 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4594-05417. $24.95 (paper) ISBN 978-1-4594-0955-2.A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War. Edited by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012. 345 pp. $90.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-77482256-5. $34.95 (paper) ISBN 978-0-7748-2257-2.

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-267
Author(s):  
Andrew Iarocci
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

The Orthodox Church of Cyprus, Enosis politics and the British authorities during the First World War

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-153
Author(s):  
Anastasia Yiangou
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
Great War ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

This article examines relations between the Orthodox Church of Cyprus and the British colonial government during the First World War. I argue that the Great War constituted the first turning point in Church-State relations during colonial rule in Cyprus which, following other developments, finally collapsed during the 1950s. I discuss how the dynamic of the Enosis movement for the union of Cyprus with Greece was bolstered during the Great War. This in turn, the article will show, had significant repercussions on the attitudes of the Orthodox Church and the British authorities, transformed their relationship and opened the way for future developments.

Strachan and the Great War: A Lifelong Quest

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-604
Author(s):  
Holger H. Herwig
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
Total War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The University ◽  
Trench Warfare ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

Sir Hew Strachan of the University of St Andrews is the doyen of World War I studies. He approached his work from a serious multinational, multilingual, and comparative perspective. He was never afraid to challenge well-established interpretations and to add fresh analyses of concepts ranging from total war to trench warfare. He was always keen to include diplomacy, politics, imperialism, industrialization, and the sinews of war in his writings. From ‘origins’ to ‘consequences’, Strachan led his readers through the challenging shoals of Great War studies. One can hardly wait for the second instalment of his opus, The First World War: No Quarter.

Death Drives

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
Freud ◽  
Proust
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World ◽  
Destructive Potential

Peter Brooks’s essay is on the Great War and its effect on Freud and Proust, in particular on their interpretations of sadism. Brooks argues that after the First World War, both Freud and Proust came to view sadism as independent of pleasure. Brooks contends that sadism is a crucial notion, one that forced writers in the post-World War I era to grapple with the destructive potential of humanity.

1871-1918

2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-211
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
German Army ◽  
British Military ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Photographic Essay ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

Zusammenfassung Peter Walkenhorst, Nation – Volk – Rasse. Radikaler Nationalismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich 1890-1914 (Bruno Thoß ) André Tiebel, Die Entstehung der Schutztruppengesetze für die deutschen Schutzgebiete Deutsch-Ostafrika, Deutsch-Südwestafrika und Kamerun (1884-1898) (Christian Senne) Eberhardt Kettlitz, Afrikanische Soldaten aus deutscher Sicht seit 1871 (Ulrich van der Heyden) Thomas Morlang, Askari und Fitafita. »Farbige« Söldner in den deutschen Kolonien (Winfried Speitkamp) Matthew S. Seligmann, Spies in Uniform. British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War (Stephen Schröder) Naval Intelligence from Germany. The Reports of the British Naval Attachés in Berlin, 1906-1914. Ed. by Matthew S. Seligmann (Nicolas Wolz) Michael B. Barrett, Operation Albion. The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands (Gerhard P. Groß) Jeff Lipkes, Rehearsals. The German Army in Belgium, August 1914 (Martin Moll) Alexander Watson, Enduring the Great War. Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914-1918 (Christian Stachelbeck) Christine Brocks, Die bunte Welt des Krieges. Bildpostkarten aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg 1914-1918 (Christoph Nübel) Anton Holzer, Das Lächeln der Henker. Der unbekannte Krieg gegen die Zivilbevölkerung 1914-1918 (Markus Pöhlmann) David C. Homsher, American Battlefields of World War I, Château-Thierry – Then and Now. A Guidebook, Anthology and Photographic Essay (Heiner Bröckermann) Der Erste Weltkrieg in der populären Erinnerungskultur. Hrsg. von Barbara Korte, Sylvia Paletschek und Wolfgang Hochbruck (Hiram Kümper)

The Jews of Vienna and the First World War. London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001. xiii, 218 pp.; Marsha L. Rozenblit. Reconstructing National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I. Studies in Jewish History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 304 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-376
Author(s):  
Harriet Pass Freidenreich
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
National Identity ◽  
World War I ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Considerable attention has been focused on Habsburg Jewry, especially the Jews of Vienna, before World War I. Several works have also dealt with the Jews of Austria and the other Habsburg successor states during the interwar years. Until now, no books have explored in depth the experiences of Austrian Jewry during the First World War. This past year, however, two books, Marsha L. Rozenblit's Reconstructing National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I and David Rechter's The Jews of Vienna and the First World War, appeared to fill this lacuna in the scholarly literature. Although these books cover the same period and share much the same material, their scope and approach are very different.

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