A haunting portrait of France at war On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks. Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone—the worst catastrophe in French military history. Refugees streamed into France as the German army advanced, spreading rumors that amplified still more the ordeal of war. Citizens of enemy countries who were living in France were viciously scapegoated. Drawing from diaries, personal correspondence, police reports, and government archives, Bruno Cabanes renders an intimate, narrative-driven study of the first weeks of World War I in France. Told from the perspective of ordinary women and men caught in the flood of mobilization, this revealing book deepens our understanding of the traumatic impact of war on soldiers and civilians alike. August 1914 was a finalist for a prestigious French book award, the Prix Fémina for nonfiction, in 2014.

August 1914: France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever

History

Cabanes, Bruno

Europe

Yale University Press

The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

The aftermath of the Great War brought the most troubled peacetime the world had ever seen. Survivors of the war were not only the soldiers who fought, the wounded in mind and body. They were also the stateless, the children who suffered war's consequences, and later the victims of the great Russian famine of 1921 to 1923. Before the phrases 'universal human rights' and 'non-governmental organization' even existed, five remarkable men and women - René Cassin and Albert Thomas from France, Fridtjof Nansen from Norway, Herbert Hoover from the US and Eglantyne Jebb from Britain - understood that a new type of transnational organization was needed to face problems that respected no national boundaries or rivalries. Bruno Cabanes, a pioneer in the study of the aftermath of war, shows, through his vivid and revelatory history of individuals, organizations, and nations in crisis, how and when the right to human dignity first became inalienable.

Military

Cambridge University Press

Les Américains dans la Grande Guerre

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Gallimard]

Atlas historique mondial (nouvelle édition)

Bat, Jean-Pierre

Duchêne, Hervé

Demoule, Jean-Paul

Chassaigne, Philippe

Cevins, Marie-Madeleine de

Grataloup, Christian

Briquel-Chatonnet, Françoise

Gavriloff, Ivan

Grenouilleau, Olivier

Christin, Olivier

Bertrand, Romain

Cornette, Joël

Fabre, Clément

Capdepuy, Vincent

Hodeir, Catherine

Becquart-Rousset, Charlotte

Kolebka, Héloïse

Barnicaud, Jeanne

Boestad, Tobias

Brice, Catherine

Delpuech, André

World

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