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THE GREAT WAR and the Shaping of the 20th Century portrays the historical events that occurred between 1890 and 1939 through the words and experiences of people who lived through them. Extensive primary resource material involves students in the sights and sounds of these turbulent times. Autobiographical accounts convey the thoughts and ...
Oct 24, 1996 · This book presents WW1 as the awful thing it really was. It covers the events leading up to the war and then its horrors: charging barbed wire fences and machine guns, being blown to pieces by artillery fire, "living" in filthy, lice-ridden, rat-infested, corpse-laden trenches in mud up to the knees.
- Jay Winter, Blaine Baggett
Episode 8 of PBS Documentary created in 1996. Converted from the original VHS because no DVD copy of the American version is slated for release.
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Nov 28, 1996 · The authors aim to show how World War I shaped the politics and culture of the 20th century, and their work is well explained and documented. Chapter 8's opening sentence is a good indicator of this: "The Great War, a leap into the modern age, unleashed an avalanche of the unmodern. This paradox has given the 20th century its characteristic form."
Jan 13, 2017 · Episode 7 of PBS Documentary created in 1996. Converted from the original VHS because no DVD copy of the American version is slated for release.
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The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century. The World War of 1914-1918, the Great War, was the first of the man-made disasters of the twentieth century. In many ways it was without precedent. Never had the battlefield been so vast, whether in the trenches, in the sky, or on and in the seas. Never had a war reached so deeply into the ...
Nov 11, 1996 · THE GREAT WAR: And the Shaping of the 20th Century by Jay & Blaine Baggett Winter ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 11, 1996 This companion volume to a PBS documentary series (to air in November) offers a cultural as well as a military portrait of the war that, the authors say, set the scene for events that would play out through the rest of the 20th century.
