ISBN:
9780313336577
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xlv, 230 p)
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ill., maps
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
The Greenwood Press "daily life through history"series
Series Statement:
Daily life of civilians during wartime
Parallel Title:
Print version Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe
DDC:
303.6/60940904
Keywords:
War and society History 20th century
Abstract:
Expert contributors write on the experiences of civilians who lived through occupation and bloodshed in the First World War; the Russians who lived or died during the the devastating civil war in 1917-1922, leading eventually to the terrors of Stalinism; the Spaniards of many factions who fought against each other in bloody civil wars; the ordinary people of France, Germany, Britain, Italy and other countries who faced the hardship and horrors of the Second World War; and the ethnic- and religious-based fighting and atrocities, often targeted at civilians, in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 in
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chronology; 1. The Daily Life of Civilians in Wartime: Europe's Twentieth-Century Experience; 2. World War One, 1914-18: Daily Life in Western Societies; 3. The Daily Lives of Civilians in the Russian Civil War; 4. Daily Life in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39; 5. The Civilian Experience of World War Two: Displacement, Government, Adjustment, Comportment; 6. Writing the History of Daily Life in the Cold War; 7. Staying Behind: Civilians in the Post-Yugoslav Wars, 1991-95; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
About the Editor and Contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]- 215) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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