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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 i...

The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919

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Edited by David Killingray and Howard Phillips Routledge (2003) 390 pages ISBN 9780415510790 There is so much to learn from ‘The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919’. A comparative history will be written in due course comparing the pandemic of 1918-19 and that of 2019-2021. Writing in 1998, ‘What occurred in 1918-19, we are repeatedly to...

Germans on the Run; from Tsingtao to Skipton

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Prof. Anne Buckley: Germans on the Run; from Tsingtao to Skipton The little-known escape story of two German POWs from Fukuoka in 1915 in which they spent a year on the run and almost circumnavigated the globe. The men were two of the 4,700 Germans taken prisoner by the Japanese following the Siege of Tsingtao in November 1914. A year later, fiv...