Jay Winter Bücher

Militärisch endete der Erste Weltkrieg 1918. Seine politischen und psychologischen Folgen hingegen dauerten noch Jahrzehnte an. Sie bereiteten Ideologien den Weg, welche die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts prägen sollten. Was aber machte den Ersten Weltkrieg zu einer historischen Zäsur? Welches waren die Faktoren, die sich als prägend für die kommenden Jahrzehnte erweisen sollten? Warum hatten sie so verhängnisvolle Auswirkungen, dass der Krieg mit dem Attribut der »Urkatastrophe des 20. Jahrhunderts« gekennzeichnet wurde? Diese Fragen sind nicht neu, doch die Autoren zeigen, dass der Blick auf die Gesamtheit der Entwicklung im 20. Jahrhundert Antworten möglich macht, die sich von früheren unterscheiden. Ausgehend von grundlegenden Reflexionen zur Bedeutung des Ersten Weltkriegs befassen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes mit der häufig vernachlässigten Rolle Russlands, mit der Bündnispolitik der Kriegsparteien sowie mit den destruktiven Potentialen des technischen Fortschritts.

The peace conference at Lausanne in 1923 marked the conclusion of the Great War, but it prioritized peace over justice, as explored by Jay Winter. He delves into the outcomes of the Treaty and its implications, highlighting how the decisions made during the conference sowed the seeds for future global conflict, ultimately leading to World War II in 1939. Winter's narrative sheds light on the complex interplay between diplomacy and the unresolved tensions that followed the war.

The Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, three-volume work which provides an authoritative account of the military, political, social, economic, and cultural history of the Great War. Reflecting the very latest research in the field, the volumes provide a comprehensive guide to the course of the war and of how the dynamics of conflict unfolded throughout the world. Volume I surveys the military history showing the brutal realities of a global war among industrialized powers. Volumes II and III explore the social, economic, cultural, and political challenges that the war presented to politicians, industrialists, soldiers, and civilians

Focusing on the life of a pivotal figure in the human rights movement, this book offers a fresh perspective on the history of human rights. Through the lens of this individual's experiences and contributions, it delves into the evolution of human rights, highlighting significant events and ideas that shaped the movement. The biography not only chronicles personal milestones but also contextualizes broader societal changes, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the ongoing struggle for human rights.

This revised and updated edition provides the first survey of historical interpretations of the Great War from 1914 to 2020. It demonstrates how the history of the Great War has now gone global, and how the internet revolution has affected the way we understand the conflict.

This Element is a user's guide to the cultural history of warfare since 1914. It provides summaries of the basic questions historians have posed in what is now a truly global field of research.

This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second World War and survived to tell the tale. Here are some of their stories.

Introduction; Part I. Vectors of Memory: 1. Configuring war; 2. Photographing war; 3. Filming war; 4. Writing war; Part II. Frameworks of Memory: 5. Memory and the sacred: martyrdom in the twentieth century and beyond; 6. The geometry of memory: horizontality and war memorials in the twentieth century and after; 7. War beyond words: shell shock, silence, and memories of war; Conclusion.

As long as I can remember, the only thing that fills my brain are words, and ever since starting school and falling in love with rhyming iambic pentameters, I have been writing "old-fashioned" poetry! This collection has been garnered and put together from hand-drafted papers and (my sister having taught me how to type so that she could read my scrawl!) from a life's collection of typed manuscripts.

A historical thriller about the ending of apartheid