Welcome to Weird War One, a catalogue of the weird, the wonderful and the downright eccentric, from deep within IWM's First World War archives. From bizarre propaganda posters to eccentric spies, from pigeon parachutes to the ventriloquist's dummy that saved his master's life, from tickle sticks to fly swats, this is proof that, as ever, the truth ......
ISBN-13: 9781904897842
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
In this book, Joseph G. Morgan examines the career of Wesley Fishel, a political scientist who vigorously supported American intervention in the Vietnam War, what he deemed a "a great, and tragic, American experiment."
Eugenics and One Family's Story of Tragedy, Loss, and Perseverance
In this extraordinary book, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Erickson uncovers the long-hidden story of an immigrant family whose matriarch was imprisoned in her 20s and later sterilized, a victim of the state-sanctioned eugenics movement.
The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern Ameri
Public involvement in the electoral process has all but disappeared. Nonvoting is systemic in American Politics. It was not always this way. With the integration of America's mass electorate into the electoral system in the 1830s, voters were intensely participatory and remained mobilised in the nineteenth century.
How Jewish Values Transformed Twentieth Century American Pop Culture
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejects the commonly held explanations for this shift: Jewish commercial acumen and their desire to assimilate. Instead, this book argues that the "pleasure principle"-a positive view of bodily pleasures and ......
The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army
Battling frigid weather, malnutrition and the constant onslaught of enemy fire, those who took part in the pivotal Battle of Stalingrad were sujected to some of the most challenging conditions of the battlefield.
The Story of World War II's Most Successful Fighter Outfit
"Beware the Thunderbolt!" With that motto, the pilots of the U.S. Eighth Air Force's 56th Fighter Group--also known as Zemke's Wolfpack--took to the skies above Europe in their P-47 Thunderbolt fighters, escorting bombers into Germany, dogfighting with the Luftwaffe, and conducting ground-attack missions.
Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-President
Collects Woodrow Wilson's most influential work, from early essays on religion to his famous Fourteen Points speech, which introduced the idea of the League of Nations. His writings allow us to trace the intellectual struggle that took the nation from a position of neutrality in World War I to its role as a central player on the world stage.