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0415278333: Evolution as a Religion (Routledge Classics)

2009-01-29T18:16:00.024-01:00

Author(s): Mary Midgley
ISBN: 9780415278331
Publisher: Routledge
Edition: 2
Date: 29 Mar 2002
Pages: 256

"... a graceful, refreshing and enlightening book, applied philosophy that is relevant, timely and metaphysical in the best sense." -- The New York Times Book Review

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0520237315: Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution

2009-01-29T18:16:00.021-01:00

Author(s): David Rains Wallace
ISBN: 9780520237315
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition: 1
Date: 18 May 2004
Pages: 368

Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two-in part because it is also our own story. In this literate and entertaining book, eminent naturalist David Rains Wallace brings the saga of ancient mammals to a general audience for the first time. Using artist Rudolph Zallinger's majestic The Age of Mammals mural at the Peabody Museum as a frame for his narrative, Wallace deftly moves over varied terrain-drawing from history, science, evolutionary theory, and art history-to present a lively account of fossil discoveries and an overview of what those discoveries have revealed about early mammals and their evolution. In these pages we encounter towering mammoths, tiny horses, giant-clawed ground sloths, whales with legs, uintatheres, zhelestids, and other exotic extinct creatures as well as the scientists who discovered and wondered about their remains. We meet such memorable figures as Georges Cuvier, Richard Owen, Edward D. Cope, George Gaylord Simpson, and Stephen Jay Gould and learn of their heated disputes, from Cuvier's and Owen's fights with early evolutionists to present controversies over the Late Cretaceous mass extinction. Wallace's own lifelong interest in evolution is reflected in the book's evocative and engaging style and in the personal experiences he expertly weaves into the tale, providing an altogether expansive perspective on what Darwin described as the "grandeur" of evolution. Illustrations: 18 b/w photographs, 2 line illustrations

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0061233501: Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (P.S.)

2009-01-29T18:16:00.019-01:00

Author(s): Kenneth R. Miller
ISBN: 9780061233500
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date: 01 Apr 2007
Pages: 368

From a leading authority on the evolution debates comes this critically acclaimed investigation into one of the most controversial topics of our times

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0748625267: American Modernism's Expatriate Scene: The Labour of Translation (Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures)

2009-01-29T18:16:00.017-01:00

Author(s): Daniel Katz
ISBN: 9780748625260
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 15 Aug 2007
Pages: 208

This study takes as its point of departure an essential premise: that the widespread phenomenon of expatriation in American modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical return to it, but one which renders uncanny all tropes of familiarity and immediacy which 'fatherlands' and 'mother tongues' are traditionally seen as providing. In this framework, similarly totalizing notions of cultural authenticity are seen to govern both exoticist mystification and 'nativist' obsessions with the purity of the 'mother tongue.' At the same time, cosmopolitanism, translation, and multilingualism become often eroticized tropes of violation of this model, and in consequence, simultaneously courted and abhorred, in a movement which, if crystallized in expatriate modernism, continued to make its presence felt beyond.

Beginning with the late work of Henry James, this book goes on to examine at length Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, to conclude with the uncanny regionalism of mid-century San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer, and the deterritorialized aesthetic of Spicer's peer, John Ashbery. Through an emphasis on modernism as a space of generalized interference, the practice and trope of translation emerges as central to all of the writers concerned, while the book remains in constant dialogue with key recent works on transnationalism, transatlanticism, and modernism.

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0312218044: A Rumor About the Jews: Reflections on Antisemitism and "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion"

2009-01-29T18:16:00.015-01:00

Author(s): Stephen Eric Bronner
ISBN: 9780312218041
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Edition: 1
Date: 01 Apr 2000
Pages: 177

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is among the most infamous documents of antisemitism. A forgery created in Russia by the czarist secret police and quickly translated into a host of languages, it portrayed Judaism as a worldwide conspiracy dedicated to the destruction of Christian civilization. The appearance of the Protocols sparked a number of bloody pogroms and it helped shape the thinking of right-wing movements worldwide from Hitler's Nazis to contemporary antisemitic groups in Russia, the Middle East and the United States. A work of intellectual history, A Rumor About the Jews expresses the connection between antisemitism and the overarching political assault upon the enlightenment legacy taking the reader on a historical journey that provides a new and penetrating understanding of an insidious ideology and its broader implications.

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0521832098: Joyce: Ulysses (Landmarks of World Literature (New))

2009-01-29T18:16:00.013-01:00

Author(s): Vincent Sherry
ISBN: 9780521832090
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2
Date: 19 Jan 2004
Pages: 148

Vincent Sherry combines a detailed study of Ulysses with new critical arguments. He provides a useful guide to the episodic sequence of Joyce's novel and presents an inquisitive interpretation of this master work, re-addressing major issues in Ulysses criticism. Demonstrating how Joyce's modernist epic redefines Homer's Odyssey, he examines Joyce's extraordinary verbal experiments. First Edition Hb (1994): 0-521-42075-X First Edition Pb (1994): 0-521-42136-5

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0719060559: Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War

2009-01-29T18:16:00.011-01:00

Author(s): Sara Haslam
ISBN: 9780719060557
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Date: 11 Oct 2002
Pages: 192

Fragmenting Modernism is about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. Ford is a fascinating and fundamental figure of the time; as a friend and critic of Ezra Pound and Joseph Conrad, editor of the English Review , and author of The Good Soldier , he shaped the development of literary modernism. Setting Ford in his cultural and historical context, the opening chapter debates the concept of fragmentation in modernism. Later chapters discuss the notion of the personal narrative, and war writing. Ford's literary technique is studied comparatively, and plot summaries of his major books are provided, as is a brief biography.

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0195168879: The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland

2009-01-29T18:16:00.009-01:00

Author(s): R. F. Foster
ISBN: 9780195168877
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date: 08 Jan 2004
Pages: 304

Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. Foster argues that, over the centuries, Irish experience itself has been turned into story. He examines how and why the key moments of Ireland's past--the 1798 Rising, the Famine, the Celtic Revival, Easter 1916, the Troubles--have been worked into narratives, drawing on Ireland's powerful oral culture, on elements of myth, folklore, ghost stories and romance. The result of this constant reinterpretation is a shifting "Story of Ireland," complete with plot, drama, suspense, and revelation. Varied, surprising, and funny, the interlinked essays in The Irish Story examine the stories that people tell each other in Ireland and why. Foster provides an unsparing view of the way Irish history is manipulated for political ends and that Irish misfortunes are sentimentalized and packaged. He offers incisive readings of writers from Standish O'Grady to Trollope and Bowen; dissects the Irish government's commemoration of the 1798 uprising; and bitingly critiques the memoirs of Gerry Adams and Frank McCourt. Fittingly, as the acclaimed biographer of Yeats, Foster explores the poet's complex understanding of the Irish story--"the mystery play of devils and angels which we call our national history"--and warns of the dangers of turning Ireland into a historical theme park. The Irish Story will be hailed by some, attacked by others, but for all who care about Irish history and literature, it will be essential reading.

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0415222311: Robert Browning: A Sourcebook (Complete Critical Guide to English Literature)

2009-01-29T18:16:00.007-01:00

Author(s): Stefan Hawlin
ISBN: 9780415222310
Publisher: Routledge
Edition: 1
Date: 26 Oct 2001
Pages: 272

A guide to Robert Browning including information about the author's life, context and works; an outline of the major critical issues surrounding his work; and explanation of the full range of different critical views and interpretations; suggestions for further reading.

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0750659068: Portfolio Management in Practice (Essential Capital Markets)

2009-01-29T18:16:00.005-01:00

Author(s): Christine Brentani
ISBN: 9780750659062
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Edition: 1
Date: 12 Jan 2004
Pages: 240

As individuals are becoming more and more responsible for ensuring their own financial future, portfolio or fund management has taken on an increasingly important role in banks' ranges of offerings to their clients. In addition, as interest rates have come down and the stock market has gone up and come down again, clients have a choice of leaving their saving in deposit accounts, or putting those savings in unit trusts or investment portfolios which invest in equities and/or bonds. Individuals are becoming aware that they might need to top up government pension allocations. Likewise, corporations who run employee pension schemes have to ensure that they are able to cover their current and future liabilities. Investing in unit trusts or mutual funds is one way for individuals and corporations alike to potentially enhance the returns on their savings.

Introduction to Portfolio Management covers the:
*Theoretical underpinnings of portfolio management
*Basics of portfolio construction
*Constraints to be considered when building a client portfolio
*Types of analysis used for asset allocation and stock selection
*Main types of funds available to investors

*Inspired from the basic entry level training courses that have been developed by major international banks worldwide.
*Will enable MSc Finance students, MBA students and those already in the finance profession to gain an understanding of the basic information and principles underlying the topic under discussion
*Questions with answers, study topics, practical "real world" examples and text with an extensive bibliography and references ensure learning outcomes can be immediately applied

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0521841232: T.S. Eliot and the Art of Collaboration

2009-01-29T18:16:00.003-01:00

Author(s): Richard Badenhausen
ISBN: 9780521841238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 14 Feb 2005
Pages: 268

Richard Badenhausen examines the crucial role that collaboration with other writers played in the development of T. S. Eliot's works from the earliest poetry and unpublished prose to the late plays. He demonstrates Eliot's dependence on collaboration in order to create, but also his struggle to accept the implications of the process. In case-studies of Eliot's collaborations, Badenhausen reveals for the first time the complexities of Eliot's theory and practice of collaboration. Examining a wide range of familiar and uncollected materials, Badenhausen explores Eliot's social, psychological, textual encounters with collaborators such as Ezra Pound, John Hayward, Martin Browne, and Vivienne Eliot, among others. Finally, this study shows how Eliot's later work increasingly accommodates his audience as he attempted to apply his theories of collaboration more broadly to social, cultural, and political concerns.

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0521812062: Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922

2009-01-29T18:16:00.001-01:00

Author(s): Ann L. Ardis
ISBN: 9780521812061
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 13 Jan 2003
Pages: 200

Ann Ardis questions commonly held views of radical modernism at the turn of the twentieth century. She depicts the "men of 1914," (as Wyndham Lewis called the coterie of writers centered around Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce) as only one among a number of groups intent on redefining the cultural objectives of British literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Simultaneously, Ardis reclaims key examples of non-modernist aesthetic effort associated with British socialism and feminism of the period.

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0691036829: Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition

2009-01-29T18:15:00.020-01:00

Author(s): Clare Cavanagh
ISBN: 9780691036823
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date: 14 Nov 1994
Pages: 384

This study places the Russian poet's invention of a poetic past in the context of modernist writing in general, with particular attention to the works of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. It shows how he addressed Russia's legacy of disinheritance by inventing a challenging vision of tradition.

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0195174917: How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry

2009-01-29T18:15:00.019-01:00

Author(s): Willard Spiegelman
ISBN: 9780195174915
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date: 23 Jun 2005
Pages: 256

Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do poets see the world? How do they look at it? What do they look for? Is description an end in itself, or a means of expressing desire? Ezra Pound demanded that a poem should represent the external world as objectively and directly as possible, and William Butler Yeats, in his introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936), said that he and his generation were rebelling against, inter alia, "irrelevant descriptions of nature" in the work of their predecessors. The poets in this book, however, who are distinct in many ways from one another, all observe the external world of nature or the reflected world of art, and make relevant poems out of their observations. This study deals with the crisp, elegant work of Charles Tomlinson, the swirling baroque poetry of Amy Clampitt, the metaphysical meditations of Charles Wright from a position in his backyard, the weather reports and landscapes of John Ashbery, and the "new way of looking" that Jorie Graham proposes to explore in her increasingly fragmented poems. All of these poets, plus others (Gary Snyder, Theodore Weiss, Irving Feldman, Richard Howard) who are dealt with more briefly, attend to what Wallace Stevens, in a memorable phrase, calls "the way things look each day." The ordinariness of daily reality is the beginning of the poets' own idiosyncratic, indeed unique, visions and styles.

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0195101766: The Great War and the Language of Modernism

2009-01-29T18:15:00.017-01:00

Author(s): Vincent Sherry
ISBN: 9780195101768
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date: 10 Apr 2003
Pages: 416

With the expressions "Lost Generation" and "The Men of 1914," the major authors of modernism designated the overwhelming effect the First World War exerted on their era. Literary critics have long employed the same phrases in an attempt to place a radically experimental, specifically modernist writing in its formative, historical setting. What real basis did that Great War provide for the verbal inventiveness of modernist poetry and fiction? Does the literature we bring under this heading respond directly to that provocation, and, if so, what historical memories or revelations can be heard to stir in these words?

Vincent Sherry reopens these long unanswered questions by focusing attention on the public culture of the English war. He reads the discourses through which the Liberal party constructed its cause, its Great Campaign. A breakdown in the established language of liberal modernity--the idioms of public reason and civic rationality--marked the sizable crisis this event represents in the mainstream traditions of post-Reformation Europe. If modernist writing characteristically attempts to challenge the standard values of Enlightenment rationalism, this study recovers the historical cultural setting of its most substantial and daring opportunity. And this moment was the occasion for great artistic innovations in the work of Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound.

Combining the records of political journalism and popular intellectual culture with abundant visual illustration, Vincent Sherry provides the framework for new interpretations of the major texts of Woolf, Eliot, and Pound. With its relocation of the verbal imagination of modernism in the context of the English war, The Great War and the Language of Modernism restores the historical content and depth of this literature, revealing its most daunting import.

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0415165113: Fifty Key Classical Authors (Fifty Key Thinkers)

2009-01-29T18:15:00.015-01:00

ISBN: 9780415165112
Publisher: Routledge
Edition: 1
Date: 01 Feb 2002
Pages: 240

This brilliant collection aims to tell the story of classical literature: how it developed, flourished, and changed throughout the ages. The individual essays, which constitute the main body of the book, give for each of the fifty authors a substantial introduction to the author's life, works, and cultural and social positions. The essays collectively create an overall sense of the main periods of the flowering classical culture, and of the significance of historical events which affected it.

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0816602891: Ezra Pound - American Writers 26: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers

2009-01-29T18:15:00.013-01:00

Author(s): William Van O'Connor
ISBN: 9780816602896
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Pages: 48

From the Back Cover

Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible to scholars, students, researchers, and general readers. Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The books offered through Minnesota Archive Editions are produced in limited quantities according to customer demand and are available through select distribution partners.

About the Author

William Van O’Connor was an editor of the University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. He wrote literary criticism and fiction and was a professor of English at the University of California, Davis.

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0195080858: The Poetics of Fascism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Paul de Man

2009-01-29T18:15:00.011-01:00

Author(s): Paul Morrison
ISBN: 9780195080858
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date: 29 Feb 1996
Pages: 192

Morrison examines the legacy of the modernist poetics of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, as it relates to current theoretical orthodoxies, and traces its influence on the current crisis in post-structural literary theory. Morrison reads the politics of post-structural theory in relation to the socio-cultural arguments espoused in the poetry and prose by Pound and Eliot, and reveals a continuity between that theory and high modernism's tendency towards fascism. Without reducing the political implications of poetry to mere caricature and without slighting the force and fact of literary mediation, Morrison has produced a book that will reshape the discussion of the social dimension of modernism. He concludes with a provocative analysis of deconstruction and the work of Paul de Man, and makes a case for a new post-structural theory that can accommodate history.

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0195076931: Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism

2009-01-29T18:15:00.009-01:00

Author(s): Vincent Sherry
ISBN: 9780195076936
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date: 25 Feb 1993
Pages: 240

Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis developed a highly experimental art; they were attracted simultaneously to political programs remarkably backward in outlook--the autocracies of Fascist Italy and Germany. That paradox, central to the problematic achievement of Anglo-American *odernism, is freshly addressed in this study. Here Sherry examines the influence of music and painting on literature, presents original research on European intellectual history, and proposes a new understanding of ideology as a force in the literary imagination. Following the example of continental ideologues, the English modernists use the material of aesthetic experience to prove truths of human nature, making art the basis for social values and recommendations. This sensibility enriches their work, shaping the varied textures of Pound's Cantos and the complex designs of Lewis's painting and fiction, but their mastery of avant-garde techniques endorses the authority of an antique state. Sherry returns their "totalitarian synthesis" of art and politics to its originating moment, following its trajectory from 1910 to the eve of World War II.

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9042021497: Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound's 'Cantos' and Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' as Twentieth-Century Epics (Cross/Cultures 88)

2009-01-29T18:15:00.007-01:00

Author(s): Line Henriksen
ISBN: 9789042021495
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV
Date: 01 Feb 2007
Pages: 365

This comparative study investigates the epic lineage that can be traced back from Derek Walcott's Omeros and Ezra Pound's Cantos through Dante's Divina Commedia to the epic poems of Virgil and Homer, and identifies and discusses in detail a number of recurrent key topoi. A fresh definition of the concept of genre is worked out and presented, based on readings of Homer. The study reads Pound's and Walcott's poetics in the light of Roman Jakobson's notions of metonymy and metaphor, placing their long poems at the respective opposite ends of these language poles. The notion of 'epic ambition' refers to the poetic prestige attached to the epic genre, whereas the (non-Bloomian) 'anxiety' occurs when the poet faces not only the risk that his project might fail, but especially the moral implications of that ambition and the fear that it might prove presumptuous. The drafts of Walcott's Omeros are here examined for the first time, and attention is also devoted to Pound's creative procedures as illustrated by the drafts of the Cantos. Although there has already been an intermittent critical focus on the 'classical' (and 'Dantean') antecedents of Walcott's poetry, the present study is the first to bring together the whole range of epic intertextualities underlying Omeros, and the first to read this Caribbean masterpiece in the context of Pound's achievement.

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0415020743: Ezra Pound as Literary Critic (Critics of the Twentieth Century)

2009-01-29T18:15:00.005-01:00

Author(s): Emeritu Ruthven
ISBN: 9780415020749
Publisher: Routledge
Edition: 1
Date: 20 Nov 1990
Pages: 208

Was the CCCC"modernistCCCC" movement in literature facist in its temperament and masculinist in its sexual politic?

Ezra Pound as Literary Critic contributes to the current debate surrounding the modernist movement by examining in detail the methods by which Pound came to dominate the discourse of modernism. As both a major poet and principal publicist of modernism, Pound so successfully dominated the movement that his version of it was reproduced by academic critics as an official literary history of the period beginning in 1910 with the publication of Pound's The Spirit of Romance , and culminating in 1922 with the appearance of Ulysses and The Wasteland . Bringing some of the insights of modern critical theory to bear on a great deal of information about Pound's activities as a literary critic (some of it made available only recently), K. K. Ruthven provides a provocative rereading of a major poet who dominated the discourse of modernism.

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019923860X: Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends: Stories in Letters

2009-01-29T18:15:00.003-01:00

ISBN: 9780199238606
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date: 15 Apr 2008
Pages: 268

No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential poet spent a lifetime incorporating Chinese language, literature, history, and philosophy into Anglo-American modernism. How well did Pound know Chinese? Was he guided exclusively by eighteenth to nineteenth-century orientalists in his various Chinese projects? Did he seek guidance from Chinese peers? Those who have written about Pound and China have failed to address this fundamental question. No one could do so just a few years ago when the letters Pound wrote to his Chinese friends were sealed or had not been found. This book brings together 162 revealing letters between Pound and nine Chinese intellectuals, eighty-five of them newly opened up and none previously printed. Accompanied by editorial introductions and notes, these selected letters make available for the first time the forgotten stories of Pound and his Chinese friends. They illuminate a dimension in Pound's career that has been neglected: his dynamic interaction with people from China over a span of forty-five years from 1914 until 1959. This selection will also be a documentary record of a leading modernist's unparalleled efforts to pursue what he saw as the best of China, including both his stumbles and his triumphs.

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0811201597: Pound/Joyce: The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, With Pound's Critical Essays and Articles About Joyce

2009-01-29T18:15:00.001-01:00

Author(s): Ezra Pound, James Joyce
ISBN: 9780811201599
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date: 01 Jun 1970
Pages: 314

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0028639022: Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I

2009-01-29T18:14:00.032-01:00

Author(s): Ph.D., Alan Axelrod
ISBN: 9780028639024
Publisher: Alpha
Edition: 1
Date: 06 Oct 2000
Pages: 352

For history buffs, students, and anyone interested in the 20th century, this book reveals why World War I began, explores the "guns of August," describes the horrors of trench warfare and the first uses of poison gas, and explains why the Americans were so slow to enter the war. From the eastern front to the west, from Gallipoli to the Marne, from the Lafayette Escadrillo to Lawrence fo Arabia, the book tells the whole story of "the war to end all wars."

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