Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914–1920 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914–1920 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)Description By Claire Morelon Hardcover Prague entered the First World War as the third city of the Habsburg empire, but emerged in 1918 as the capital of a brand new nation state, Czechoslovakia. Claire Morelon explores what this transition looked, sounded and felt like at street level. Through deep archival research, she has carefully reconstructed the sensorial texture of the city, from the posters plastered on walls, to the shop windows' displays,

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He walked the route Harry took on that fatal

Revealing the little-known facts of Harry Truman’s remarkable military performance

led by Major Victor Morse

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‘Ain’t I a woman

The evacuation was ordered to begin on September 8

In this way

his relationship to the women in his life

and the reasons why it gave the British the upper hand over the Germans on the battlefield and why it was adopted by the US Tank Corps

conducted 183 interviews with British World War I veterans