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The Army in India in Mesopotamia from 1916 to 1918: Tactics, Technology and Logistics Reconsidered
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Roy, Kaushik - The Army in India in Mesopotamia from 1916 to 1918: Tactics, Technology and Logistics Reconsidered
Keywords: Great War | Indian Army | Mesopotamia | tactics
ISFWWS-Keywords: India | Military organisation of combat | Middle East | Experience of combat | The Ottoman Empire and the Middle East | Medicine | Britain | Published memoirs and biographies | Soldiers and Combat
Abstract: The Great War or the First World War was the worldís first ëTotal Warí. The main focus of academic military history since the last decade has been on war and…
Information, Censorship or Propaganda? The Illustrated French Press in the First World War
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Beurier, Joëlle - Information, Censorship or Propaganda? The Illustrated French Press in the First World War
Keywords: censorship | French soldier | Great War | photographic propaganda
ISFWWS-Keywords: French society during the war | Western Front | Home fronts | Visual Arts | Literature | Culture | Experience of combat
Abstract: This chapter examines different photograph collections in order to enhance understanding of photographic propaganda during the Great War. The photograph of a dead French soldier showed the silhouetted body of a
zouave, a soldier from the French colo…
‘If It Had Happened Otherwise’—First World War Exceptionalism in Counterfactual History
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Badsey, Stephen - ‘If It Had Happened Otherwise’—First World War Exceptionalism in Counterfactual History
Keywords: battlefield | Great War | London's Imperial War Museum | Trench Experience | Western Front
ISFWWS-Keywords: Britain | Legacy | Western Front | Home fronts | Soldiers and Combat | Culture | Society
Abstract: Perhaps the most ubiquitous and evocative image of the Great War in popular culture is the trench on the Western Front. In novels and film, and in both the classroom and the museum, the trench is called upon to…
“Having Seen Enough”: Eleanor Franklin Egan and the Journalism of Great War Displacement
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Hudson, David - “Having Seen Enough”: Eleanor Franklin Egan and the Journalism of Great War Displacement
Keywords: American journalist | Eleanor Franklin Egan | Great War | journalism
ISFWWS-Keywords: The United States of America | Legacy | Literature | Women and War | Politics | The Balkans and Eastern Europe | The Ottoman Empire and the Middle East
Abstract: The Great War presented American journalist Eleanor Franklin Egan with an unmatched tableau, and by the time of the armistice she had cemented her reputation as one of the foremost inte…
The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917–18: An Imperial Turning Point
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Showalter, Dennis - The Indianization of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 1917–18: An Imperial Turning Point
Keywords: British Army | Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) | Great War | Indian Army | Sir Edmund Allenby
ISFWWS-Keywords: India | Middle East | Military organisation of combat | The Ottoman Empire and the Middle East | The French and British Empires | Experience of combat | Aviation | Religion | Science | Technology | Medicine
Abstract: When Sir Edmund Allenby ceremonially walked into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917, he symbolized the end of the Britis…
