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Author Cabanes, Bruno, author.

Uniform Title Août 14. English
Title August 1914 : France, the Great War, and a month that changed the world forever / Bruno Cabanes ; translated by Stephanie O'Hara.

Publication Info. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]
©2016

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  940.344 C111a 2016    ---  Available
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Description xvii, 230 pages : map ; 22 cm
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Note Originally published as Août 14 (Paris : Éditions Gallimard, 2014).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-221) and index.
Contents Map of the Western front, August 1914 -- One. War breaks out -- Two. Visions of war, dreams of peace -- Three. Farewell ceremonies -- Four. Trial by fire -- Five. The shadow of defeat -- Six. The enemy within -- Seven. Fears and rumors -- Eight. The sounds of war -- Epilogue: beyond August 1914 -- Timeline -- Notes -- Index.
Summary "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." -- Publisher's description
Subject German Occupation of France (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01353175
World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
World War, 1914-1918 -- France.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1914-1918.
France -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author O'Hara, Stephanie Elizabeth, 1973- translator.
ISBN 9780300208276
0300208278

 
    
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