| Description |
1 online resource |
| Summary |
The horrors of World War I scarred an entire generation at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now, one hundred years later, we are asked to reflect upon it and remember what a disastrous episode of history it was. This book offers a brief, straightforward, illustrated history of World War I. In particular, it explains the trenches and what it was like to live and fight in them. Using his own diagrams, illustrations, and maps, author Trevor Yorke explains the architecture of the trenches, with their command posts, sally points, tunnels, machine gun nests, duck boards, and sleeping billets. There are chapters to explain tactics, weaponry, and daily life. There are special features on the introduction of new weapons of war, such as tanks, early aeroplanes, and the first use of poison gas. These can bring home to us a real understanding of the unique inhumanity of the war, and why the dates 1914-1918 require all generations of today to remember and learn from them. As Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse, says in his Foreword: 'As we begin to mark the centenary of the First World War, we should honour those who died, most certainly, and gratefully too, but we should never glorify. During these next four years of commemoration we should read the poems, the stories, the history, the diaries, visit the cemeteries German cemeteries as well as ours they were all sons and brothers and lovers and husbands and fathers too.' |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword by Michael Morpurgo; Introduction; Chapter 1: Opening Moves: Battle Lines are Drawn; Chapter 2: The Trenches: Design and Construction; Chapter 3: Life in the Trench: Eating, Sleeping and Staying Alive; Chapter 4: Trench Warfare: Tactics, Weapons and Tanks; Chapter 5: Going Home: 1918 and the Aftermath of War; Appendix 1: The Origins of the First World War; Appendix 2: Places to Visit; Glossary of Terms; Index |
| Language |
English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Engineering and construction.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Western Front -- Trench warfare.
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Intrenchments.
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trenches. |
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ditches. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. |
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Intrenchments |
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World War (1914-1918) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vB9cvdKydGHm4yKx7Gb |
| Chronological Term |
1914-1918 |
| Added Author |
Morpurgo, Michael, writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yorke, Trevor. Trench 9781846743177 |
| ISBN |
9781846748813 (electronic bk.) |
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184674881X (electronic bk.) |
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9781846748806 (electronic bk.) |
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1846748801 (electronic bk.) |
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9781846743177 (pbk.) |
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1846743176 (pbk.) |
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