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Christmas 1914: The First World War at Home and Abroad

By John Hudson

Book information

Publisher
The History Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780750960380
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2396486 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-03 06:04:43
History; Military; Nonfiction; HIS027000

Description

By December 1914, it had become clear to even the most optimistic observer that the war would not be over by Christmas. That month brought the first enemy-inflicted deaths of the war, when German warships bombarded three North East coastal towns; meanwhile, the recently invented aeroplane was being put to deadly use in raids over the South East. In France that month, the Battle of the Marne gave a taste of the devastating power of modern warfare - a reality to which troops in the trenches on both sides tried to turn a blind eye in the famous Christmas truce. This book uses contemporary newspapers and magazines, diaries and other records to present a comprehensive image of this extraordinary Christmas, both at home and abroad.

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