Epilogue: Contribution and Cost

2019 ◽  
pp. 177-183
Author(s):  
Robb Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Great War ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Military Establishment ◽  
The Great War

This chapter describes Sir Edwin Lutyens's memorial to 35,000 fishermen and merchant seamen killed in the Great War, which have no grave but the sea. It recounts the crucial role the fishermen played that was often acknowledged by key figures in the country's political and military establishment immediately after the war and in the first years which followed. It also discusses the publication of a small number of books that highlighted the fishermen's activities in the Great War that told much of the scale and scope of their contribution. The chapter refers to the new navy known as the Auxiliary Patrol that had been dispersed and disbanded very rapidly after the return of peace. It summarizes the scale and scope of the engagement of fishermen and coastal communities from around the British Isles on the maritime front line during the Great War.

Fishermen, the Fishing Industry and the Great War at Sea

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robb Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Great War ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Recent Discussion ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Fish Trade

Recent discussion, academic publications and many of the national exhibitions relating to the Great War at sea have focused on capital ships, Jutland and perhaps U-boats. Very little has been published about the crucial role played by fishermen, fishing vessels and coastal communities all round the British Isles. Yet fishermen and armed fishing craft were continually on the maritime front line throughout the conflict; they formed the backbone of the Auxiliary Patrol and were in constant action against U-boats or engaged on unrelenting minesweeping duties. Approximately 3000 fishing vessels were requisitioned and armed by the Admiralty and more than 39,000 fishermen joined the Trawler Section of the Royal Naval Reserve. The class and cultural gap between working fishermen and many RN officers was enormous. This book examines the multifaceted role that fishermen and the fish trade played throughout the conflict. It examines the reasons why, in an age of dreadnoughts and other high-tech military equipment, so many fishermen and fishing vessels were called upon to play such a crucial role in the littoral war against mines and U-boats, not only around the British Isles but also off the coasts of various other theatres of war. The book analyses the nature of the fishing industry's war-time involvement and also the contribution that non-belligerent fishing vessels continued to play in maintaining the beleaguered nation's food supplies.

A New History for a New Channel: The Great War and the Launch of BBC2

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Downing
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Television History ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World ◽  
Intense Debate ◽  
Do So

This article considers the making of the BBC2 series, The Great War, and examines issues around the treatment and presentation of the First World War on television, the reception of the series in 1964 and its impact on the making of television history over the last fifty years. The Great War combined archive film with interviews from front-line soldiers, nurses and war workers, giving a totally new feel to the depiction of history on television. Many aspects of The Great War were controversial and raised intense debate at the time and have continued to do so ever since.

1918: Minesweeping and Anti-Submarine Operations during the Final Year

2019 ◽  
pp. 140-162
Author(s):  
Robb Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Mine Production ◽  
The Great War

This chapter discusses the German minelaying assault on the waters around the British Isles that had passed its peak due to the growing effectiveness of British countermeasures. It details the difficulty of Germans to maintain high levels of mine production given the pressing demands of other military priorities. It also focuses on specific objectives that are discerned from a study of minelaying activities during the last year of the Great War. The chapter illustrates the great barrage that the Germans tried to lay on one specific stretch of the Scottish coast during the spring and summer of 1918, which was undertaken on a considerable scale. It examines the German operation that was a key part of an even wider strategy aimed at ensnaring the dreadnoughts of the Grand Fleet amongst the mines of the great barrage.

The Great War 1914–1918 and Manipulation of Humans’ Consciousness in the Circumstances of the New World-System Birth: the Experience for XXI century. Consciousness in the Circumstances of the New World-System Birth: the Experience for XXI century

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
S. Troyan ◽  
N. Nechaieva-Yuriichuk ◽  
L. Alexiyevets
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
World System ◽  
First World War ◽  
Great War ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
World War ◽  
Front Line ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

The Great War of 1914-1918 went down in history as the first armed clash of two warring coalitions of States on a global scale. The centenary of the end of the First World War of 1914-1918 became a significant information occasion for a new unbiased view in the context of a retrospective analysis of the problems of war and peace, war and politics, war and diplomacy, war and society, war and culture and the like. During the Great War at the beginning of the XX century the governments of countries – participants of the war used different ways for manipulation of human consciousness like fiction, poetry, postcards etc. The main aim of that was the achievement of people mobilization for war. The reaction of people of European states for the war was ambiguous, but a high percentage of population was in favor of the war. Even a famous French writer A. France (who was 70 years old) tried to become a volunteer to the war. So, what is possible to tell about younger men? But the reality of the First World War changed the vision of people toward it. They saw that the war is not a festival. It needs patience, first of all. New strategies, new armament demonstrated that the individual person had a small influence on result. The enemy was often invisible. All that affected the identification of soldiers and contributed the development of front-line brotherhood. Disappointment became the special feature of those who went through the war. They returned to the unstable world where it was difficult to find appropriate place for former soldiers. And again it was used by radical elements like A. Hitler in Germany. The author’s points out that it is necessary to understand the processes that took place at the beginning of the XX century to not repeat them at the beginning of the XXI century. Understanding the events of the world war 1914-1918, their impact on the human mind and psyche are a necessary component for understanding the processes that are currently taking place in our country. The state and government circles should take into account the experience of the past and develop an adequate strategy to overcome the destructive effects of war on the human consciousness, the integration of front-line soldiers into peaceful life and the protection of democratic ideals and freedoms.

scholarly journals The Great War and Siberian Memory: Georgy Vyatkin in an American Poetry Anthology of 1916

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-128
Author(s):  
A. B. Ustinov ◽  
I. E. Loshchilov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Great War ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Literary Biography ◽  
White Press ◽  
The Great War

The essay is dedicated to a rather extraordinary episode in the literary biography of the Siberian poet Georgy Vyatkin (1885–1938), when one of his poems was translated by the American social worker Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) and published in 1916 in the magazine “The Russian Review.” The authors carefully reconstruct political and ideological contexts of this publication, directly linked to the United States’ entry into the Great War. They pay special attention to the literary and social activities of Alice Stone Blackwell. They discuss what place Vyatkin’s poem “To the Descendants’ took in Vyatkin’s literary biography in the time of the Great War. In 1914 he became a front-line correspondent for the Kharkov newspaper “Utro.” By 1915 he was drafted as a “ratnik” (soldier) by the army, and further served as an assistant within the medical and nutritional detachment under the command of another poet, Sasha Chernyi (Alexander Glikberg; 1880‒1932). Throughout the Great War, Vyatkin created an œuvre of literary works in verse and prose, which also includes his poem “To Descendants,” that was published in the magazine “Europe’s Messenger” and translated into English. Vyatkin revised some of his war poems after the Revolution, and adapted them to the circum- stances of the Civil War, from the perspective of the “White” press. At the same time, he became the Secretary of the War Archives Commission, which was created in 1918 under the leadership of the folklorist Ivan Ulyanov (1876–1937), who collected evidence of the modern memory of the Great War.

Fighting Overseas

2019 ◽  
pp. 97-115
Author(s):  
Robb Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The Great War

This chapter delves into the international conflagration of the Great War that carried fishermen to conflicts on coasts far removed from the shores of the British Isles. It details the British and French plans for a naval assault on the Dardanelles, which were formulated following Turkey's entry into the conflict on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary in late October 1914. It also follows the trawlers and their fishermen crews that had embarked on the next stage of the voyage to the Dardanelles after reaching Malta. The chapter looks at the initial allied strategy that involved forcing a passage through the Dardanelles, the narrow straits that divide Europe from Asia. It describes trawler minesweepers that cleared a way for large warships to move in and bombard the enemy's forts on the Dardanelles Peninsula and the Asiatic side.

scholarly journals Memories of Tafkil Bikchantaev

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-176
Author(s):  
Lilia Sh. Davletshina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
Front Line ◽  
60Th Anniversary ◽  
Training Camp ◽  
Introductory Part ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
The Great War

The article presents the memoirs of Tafkil Bikchantaev, who took part in the Great Patriotic War in 1943–1944. His memoirs were recorded at a much later date in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Victory and were directed to schoolchildren. Therefore, T. Bikchantaev is not carried away by details, emotions, on the contrary, he covers only the moments of the war that he considers the most important. The text is well-structured: in the introductory part, the front-line soldier recalls the value of Victory in the Great War, the contribution of the Tatar people to the Victory. This part is written in slogan language. Then the war veteran recalls how he was drafted into the army, was in the Suslonger training camp, about the famine, about participation in battles on the second Baltic front and about his injury. In this part of the narrative, long-remembered events are mentioned that deeply touched the author of the memoirs. In general, the recording of memoirs tells how a simple Tatar village guy saw the war, and how he perceived it.

Fishing During the Great War

2019 ◽  
pp. 116-139
Author(s):  
Robb Robinson
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Great War ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Previous Night ◽  
The North ◽  
Fishing Vessels ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Great War

This chapter reflects on the British fishing industry that boomed in 1913 and in the years preceding the outbreak of the Great War. It refers to the Grimsby steam trawler Zenobia that was detained for several hours in Heligoland after being stopped by a German gunboat on 4 August 1914, but then was eventually allowed to proceed. It also recalls the German trawler Else Kunkel and fishing smack Hammil Warden that were detained after sailing into Aberdeen, unaware that war had been declared the previous night. The chapter mentions the Admiralty that had been keen to get fishing vessels off the North Sea as the waters were likely to be on the front line of the maritime war, providing no place for civilian fishing vessels. It elaborates how substantial numbers of fishermen and fishing vessels became required for wartime naval security duties.

The Great War in History

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Winter ◽  
Antoine Prost
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
The Great War
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