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Glory of the Empires 1880-1914: The illustrated History of Military Uniforms and Traditions of Britain, France Germany, Russian and the United States

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By Wendell Schollander History Press, £32.50, 896pp, ills in monochrome and colour and throughout, picture credits, bibliographies, index. ISBN: 978-075-248-634-5 Between 1880 and 1914 officers and those in specialist army units of the great empires - Britain, France, Germany, Russia and the United States - were, truly, bedecked. Their elaborat…

Empires at War 1911 - 1923 Edited by Prof. Robert Gerwarth & Erez Manela

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OU Press 17 August 2015 pp.243 ISBN 9780198734932 When I sit down to read about the First World War, I usually grab a map of the Western Front. With Empires at War, you need a globe. This is the best way to picture a world war. Empires at War 1911 - 1923 declares its scope,‘the organised mass violence of war had not ended; it had only shifted…

Ep.263 – The German Colonies in the First World War – Prof Matt Fitzpatrick

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Historian Professor Matt Fitzpatrick, Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in Australia, talks about his research into the fate of two Imperial German colonial possessions, German Cameroon and German Samoa, in the opening months of the First World War. …