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Desperate glory : the story of World War One / by John Wilson.
Presents the story and issues of the First World War in a clear, concise and objective manner, accompanied on every page by photographs, original sketches or maps.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781459727304
- Physical Description: 1 electronic text (81 pages, 7 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, maps, portrait
- Publisher: Toronto [Ontario] : Napoleon Pub., [2008]
- Distributor: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:january.17 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page [84]) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | An Awful Silence -- The First Two Deaths -- Europe 1914 -- A Hideous Inevitability -- Von Schlieffen's Plan -- First Moves -- Enthusiasm -- The Canadian Response -- Battle and Retreat -- Tannenberg and Ypres -- Truce -- Stalemate -- A New Year Looms -- Ypres Again& -- Somewhere Else -- The Australian Experience -- Sideshows -- Trying Again -- The Other Side of Europe -- War in the Third Dimension -- Flying Canadians -- Hanging on -- Canaries -- Troubles In Britain -- The Somme- Day 1 -- The Somme- Day 2 to Day 141 -- Jutland -- Trench Life -- A Day in a Soldier's Life -- Boredom -- Nurses -- The Soft Underbelly -- Total War -- Disrupted Plans -- Canadian Victory -- Canadians at Vimy Ridge -- A Canadian Hero -- Revolution -- The Bolsheviks Take Power -- preading Revolution -- Some Success -- Air War -- Passchendaele -- Multicultural Canada in the War -- Billy Bishop -- Major Barker's Bravery -- Poets -- In Flanders Fields -- The Last Gamble -- Americans at Last -- The End of Monarchy in Russia -- The Devil's Chariots -- Amiens and the Last Hundred Days -- The Last Shots -- Influenza -- Peace Treaty -- Europe 1919& -- The Cost -- Remembering -- The Canadian National Vimy Memorial -- Remember Victory and Tragedy -- Important sites on the Western Front, 1914-18 -- Timeline of World War I. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also available in print version. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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