Expeditionary Forces in the First World War

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Beyerchen, Alan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sencer, Emre (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Military history.; World history.; Imperialism.; Great Britain-History.; United States-History.; History of Military.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Britain and Ireland.; US History.

When war engulfed Europe in 1914, the conflict quickly took on global dimensions. Although fighting erupted in Africa and Asia, the Great War primarily pulled troops from around the world into Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Amid the fighting were large numbers of expeditionary forces-and yet they ha...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Concepts and Themes
• 2. A Tale of Two Expeditionary Forces: Religion and Race in the Dardanelles and France
• 3. Far from Home? Perceptions and Experiences of the First World War Nurses and Their Patients
• 4. The Enemy Lurking Behind the Front: Controlling Sex in the German Forces Sent to Eastern and Western Europe, 1914-1918
• 5. Vietnamese Contingents to the Western Front, 1915-1919
• 6. Expeditionary Forces in the Shatterzone: German, British and French Soldiers on the Macedonian Front, 1915-1918
• 7. An Alliance of Competing Identities: Stereotypes and Hierarchies among Entente Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front
• 8. Empire, Oil, and Bavarians: The German Expeditionary Force in the Caucasus, 1918-1919
• 9. Freikorps in the Baltics: German Expeditionary Forces in Eastern Europe, 1918-1919
• 10. From Galicia to Galilee: The Ottoman and German Expeditionary Experiences in the First World War in Comparison
• 11. "Some corner of a foreign field that is forever England": The Western Front as the British Soldiers' Sacred Land
• 12. Conclusion: On the Conduct and Consequences of Expeditionary Forces.