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‎Bitter Truth : Avant-garde Art and the Great War‎

‎, Yale University Press, 1994 Hardcover, 336 pages, ENG, 295 x 250 x 30 mm, dustjacket, In very good condition!, 330 b&w illustrations, 70 colour plates, index. ISBN 9780300057041.‎

‎"It is unspeakable, godless, hopeless. I am no longer an artist interested and curious. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth." - Paul Nash, 1918, at Passchendaele. The trauma of the First World War had an immensely powerful effect on the painters, sculptors, and printmakers who participated in it. They produced an extraordinary range of striking images that conveyed the immediacy and horror of their experiences and feelings. This arresting book is the first to bring together and examine the full international array of images spawned by the Great War. Richard Cork shows how avant-garde artists from Europe, Russia, and the United States challenged the recruiting posters and other propagandist views of the struggle by producing art that reflected the degradation of the trenches. The conflict was anticipated before hostilities began by the visionary and apocalyptic work of painters such as Meidner and Kandinsky. Chagall, Nevinson, Hartley, Beckmann, Kirchner, and other artists were quick to define war's essential tragedy with objective, expressionist, or allegorical art that alluded to their own wartime experiences. The harshest images of war were made in the latter stages or after the Armistice, when artists such as Dix had time to consider their participation in the war. Ironically, the post-war years also witnessed the redemptive work of Spencer and Brancusi, who after the Armistice produced monumental affirmations of brotherhood, fortitude, and love. This lavishly illustrated book will accompany a major exhibition of art from World War I, to be held at the Altes Museum in Berlin from June 4 to August 28 and at the Barbican Art Gallery in London from September 29 to December 11, 1994.‎

‎The Great War and the Great Victory of the People. On the 65th Anniversary of ‎

‎The Great War and the Great Victory of the People. On the 65th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War: In 2 Books. In Russian /Velikaya voyna i Velikaya Pobeda naroda. K 65-letiyu pobedy v Velikoy Otechestvennoy voyne: V 2-kh kn. Under the editorship of A. N. Sakharov and L. P. Kolodnikova. M. Akadembook 2010, 480 and 520 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbdf2bd49f3beea739.‎

‎Strangers On The Western Front - Chinese Workers In The Great War‎

‎Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England, Harvard University Press, 2011. 1 volume, in-8, 336 pp., hardcover, enriched with black and white photographs, in excellent condition.‎

‎Contents: Notes on Romanization, page ix. Introduction, pages 1-9. Chapter 1: Great War and Great Crisis: China, Britain, France, and the "Laborers as Soldiers" Strategy, pages 10-37. Chapter 2: The Recruitment and European Odyssey of the Men for Britain and France, pages 38-54. Chapter 3: The Hidden Story of the Secret Canadian Pathway, pages 55-79. Chapter 4: Work, pages 80-102. Chapter 5: Treatment and Perceptions, pages 103-125. Chapter 6: Strangers in a Strange World: Chinese Lives in Europe, pages 126-151. Chapter 7: American Soldiers and Chinese Laborers, pages 152-173. Chapter 8: The Association Men and Chinese Laborers, pages 174-197. Chapter 9: The Fusion of Teaching and Learning: Students as Teachers and Vice Versa, pages 198-219. Chapter 10: A Fusion of Civilizations, pages 220-239. Conclusion, pages 240-244. Appendix 1: Huimin Contract with the French Government, pages 245-250. Appendix 2: British Contract, pages 251-252. Notes, pages 253-304. Selected Glossary, pages 305-306. Selected Bibliography, pages 307-324. Acknowledgements, pages 325-328. Index, 329-336.‎

‎Boyko V.N Black Sea Submerged in 3 Volumes Book 1. The Great War of 1914-1918.‎

‎Boyko V.N Black Sea Submerged in 3 Volumes Book 1. The Great War of 1914-1918. Book 2. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Book 3. The Cold War of 1945-1991 and to the present day In Russian /Boyko V.N Chernomorskiy podplav v 3-kh tomakh Kniga 1. Velikaya Voyna 1914-1918. Kniga 2. Velikaya Otechestvennaya voyna 1941-1945. Kniga 3. Kholodnaya voyna 1945-1991 i po nastoyashchie vremya Sevastopol IR IPTS 2024.360 and 360 and 436 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb0af05b32477a938f.‎

‎In the year of the Great War: Calendar for 1917 - Petrograd: Uprov on the affai‎

‎"In the year of the Great War: Calendar for 1917 - Petrograd: Uprov on the affairs of small credit 1916.-94 p. 5 l.: il.; 28.3x20.3 sm./V godinu Velikoy voyny: Kalendar na 1917 g.-Petrograd: Upr. po delam melk. kredita 1916.-94 s. 5 l. il.: il.; 28 3x20 3 sm. In the year of the Great War: Calendar for 1917 - Petrograd: Uprov on the affairs of small credit 1916.-94 p. 5 l.: il.; 28.3x20.3 sm. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-6f93b31be0222fbd."‎