The work of Brown and Seaton is considered the first ‘accurate’ cultural history on the Christmas truce, using personal accounts to put together ‘the best book on the subject,’ which, along with the work of Ashworth and Ekstein, is seen as the top starting point in analysing the truce. Terraine says the book is ‘an excellent account, placing the truce in its proper context and collecting eyewitness impressions skilfully from both sides.’ This view differs drastically from his past criticism of Oh What a Lovely War, suggesting that historians were still critical of the validity of popular culture. The book represents the growth of cultural history in the 1980s, which bridges the gap between academics and the public and accordingly it is taken seriously by historians. The 2014 hardback edition’s sale ranking reached 672,949 and all three editions have been cited by most books on the truce in 1914. The book succeeds in ‘let[ting] soldiers speak for themselves as to what the truce meant from a contemporary […] standpoint and this objectivity gives the book added weight. An excellent reminder of the truce humanity that is within us all’. However, the ‘contemporary standpoint’ is influenced by the context, thus affecting its supposed objectivity. Modris Ekstein further develops the cultural history of the truce further by placing it in its context and assessing its contemporary significance. The First World War was a ‘pivotal moment in modern history of consciousness’ and
In 1859 John Brown finally felt that the time was right for the slaves in this country to rise up against the slave owners. He felt that slavery could only be removed by violence (John Brown, Harpers..., 2012) and was quoted as saying, “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood” . On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry. His goal was to start a slave uprising and grab guns and weapons at the armory. On that night twenty two men, led by John Brown, took control of the arsonal. While they were successful at first, U.S. marines surrounded the fort, killed a few of his men, and took prisoner the rest of the twenty-two (John Brown’s 1859...,
“Which in the field developed into the finest thing that arose out of the war - comradeship,” (Remarque 27). Throughout the war, soldiers depend on each other to be able to live another day. Through small acts of kindness, sorrow from loss, and never leaving one behind emerges the theme of comradeship, which is clearly represented in the novel, All Quiet On The Western Front.”
Has there really ever been a time in your life when everything has been all quiet? No matter who you are, there is always something on your mind, or something that you have to deal with. There is really only one way to achieve absolute quiet, and that is by death. War unfortunately gives millions of people just that. All Quiet on the Western Front is a book that tells a story of young men and their journey throughout WW1 from the German perspective. Three main points of war that will be mentioned in this paper are betrayal, horror, and friendship.
This was my first but not my last lapse into Finny’s vision of peace. For hours, and sometimes for days, I fell without realizing it into the private explanations of the world. Not that I ever believed the whole production of World War II was a trick of the eye manipulated by a bunch of calculating fat old men, appealing though this idea was. What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found
The Christmas truce of 1914, one of the most heartwarming stories of one of the bloodiest wars in history. Most of the powers engaged in fighting at the time the war started thinking the war would last a few months and no more at most, but as we all know they were so very wrong. The Christmas Truce was perhaps the first act into WWI where front-line fighters began to grow tired of the endless, useless assaults on their enemies, perhaps to only really gain a few yards of ground. The losses were mounting up and the soldiers began to defy direct orders not to fraternize with the enemy. The first mention of a Christmas Truce between the warring armies happened a few weeks before Christmas day 1914. Pope Benedict XV suggested the sides lay down their arms and cease fire on one another for the day and allow the soldiers to celebrate the holiday he asked “that the guns may fall silent at least upon the angels sang”; all of the nation’s high commands refused to agree to any ceasefire or truce and vowed to continue fighting ,regardless, soldiers in the trenches were there fighting a war that they’ve been told by their superiors would have already been over by this point. Living in completely inadequate conditions close to freezing each night as went to dream in I’m sure you can understand why the soldiers began to soften the enemy they were facing in the hope that they might do the same. They were taking orders from generals who sat far behind enemy lines not engaged in the fighting and it’s that distance perhaps that allowed the first stage of fraternization to actually begin, communication took time to travel between officers on the front lines and the generals back at headquarters, so certain things could go on that they wouldn't find out about. Besides that first mention from Pope Benedict that a Christmas Truce could actually become a reality, there had already been a few small-scale truces conducted along the front lines between the British and French on one side, and the Germans on the other from around November 1914 onwards as the two sides really settled into that stalemate of the trench warfare they were said to be a ceasefire after sunset at certain points along the line when soldiers would have their
“We developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity which grew on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms” (Remarque 19). In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front the men are faced at the decision of life and death, protecting each other so each individual will make it home. Facing horrific images while being put at risk on the line in the front. Comradeship plays an important role in All Quiet on the Western Front, by being able to survive, build a brotherhood bond, and restoring comfort and courage.
In 1914-1919, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was the cause of World War One, resulting in conflicts between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. In the Great War, No Man’s Land was a dividing field from the opposing trenches located in France. Soldiers were forced to cross the land to push forward their side of the battle, to either take control or defend the territory. Gas was often used in the trenches to wipe out large groups of soldiers at a time. During the battle, soldiers would come across harsh conditions such as disease, treacherous terrain, and the passing of men. Soldiers sent into war experienced hard decisions and tragedies which can change their mentality. In the story, The Wars Timothy Findley develops the idea that when an individual faces dilemmas in life, one’s innocence can vary due to a person’s human nature.
War is always the worst tragedy of mankind in the world. We, as human beings, were experienced two most dolorous wars that were ever happened in our history: World War I and World War II. A young generation actually does not know how much hardship the predecessors, who joined and passed through the wars, undergo. We were taught about just how many people died in the wars, how much damage two participations in the wars suffered or just the general information about the wars. We absolutely do not know about the details, and that’s why we also do not know what the grief-stricken feeling of people joining in the wars really is. But we can somewhat understand that feeling through war novels, which describe the truthfulness of the soldiers’ lives, thoughts, feelings and experiences. All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, which takes World War I as background, is the great war novel which talks about the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the hopeless of these soldiers about the “future” – the time the war would have ended.
Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer prize-winning book about the start of World War I is a fascinating and detailed work that delivers the thoughts and actions of the belligerents and their previously mysterious leaders to life on every page. This military history of the first month of the war is written in a way as to keep the reader interested because of the great detail. The author also manages to write about the events in such a manor as the reader sees them as they happened. Despite any previous knowledge about the historical events of the war, the book manages to keep you wondering if the Germans will succeed in its aims.
Duane Anthony Brown was born in Richmond, Virginia on August 30, 1985. He attended Hermitage High School in Richmond, where he competed in track, played football and basketball, and also played saxophone in the high school’s marching band. Although he was only 250 pounds coming out of high school, Brown was rated by Rivals.com as a three-start tight end prospect.
Hi my name is John Brown,do you ever wonder who had over five sons and helped start the civil war. Yep you bet that was me I John Brown raided one of the southerners biggest military supplies outposts. The reason I did this rational idea was to cause a slave uprising in the south,Anyways moving on to how I became a hero to the north but a terrorist to the south. I was born in 1800 in Hudson Ohio,my father was Owen Brown and my early life was wild I was made part of an Indian tribe as a young boy and I also tamed a squirrel like a dog. After this I was big in reading I studied a lot about slavery and started a passion for hating it. After this I moved to Missouri and married Marry Brown. After that it's hard to remember all of them but I had over ten children in my lifetime.
Born on May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut, the greatest martyr of all time would come into this world to fulfill his destiny of being the driving force behind the Civil War. John Brown was born into an anti-slavery Calvinists family, whose parents raised him to believe that racial superiority was none exist. By the age of 12, John Brown and his family would set out on a driving journey through Michigan. Lodging in the home of a slave-owner, Brown was able to build a relationship with one of the slave boys who worked in the home. On multiple occasion Brown witnessed his friend getting severely beaten with household tools and not being able to do anything about (John Brown Chronology). This encounter started the evolution of his hatred towards
Despite the varying degree to which one can define terrorism, John Brown’s actions at Harper’s Ferry and Pottawatomie Creek are likely terrorist acts in that they, like modern forms of terrorism, directly targeted government institutions of a physical and political nature.
Charles Oduro Mrs. Weber English 9 Honors, Period 1 October. 18. 2017 A Separate Peace - Chapter 9 Summary:
This is a great deal of history for a generally little book, and Eksteins continues impressionistically, giving his examination a role as a dramatization in three acts—however its belongings are more true to life, with sudden cuts, moving points of view, and montages of detached detail. He distinguishes his technique as an endeavor to influence a sort of peace with the broken world we to have acquired from the war, however his endeavors at joining are not generally effective, time and again instituting his topic where they ought to clarify