Written between 1919 and 1926, this text tells of the campaign aganist the Turks in the Middle East, encompassing gross acts of cruelty and revenge, ending in a welter of stink and corpses in a Damascus hospital.
A roman ą clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the ...
A picaresque series of tales about an ordinary man's successful quest to survive, and a funny but unrelentingly savage assault on the very idea of bureaucratic officialdom as a human enterprise conferring benefits on those who live under ...
Describes life at Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned -- the post-World War I "lost generation."
Chronicles the history of the oil industry and the forces that have shaped the modern world.
The focus of this volume is not on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great War and the 'long 19th century', the short- and long-term causes of World War I.
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French ...
This work explores how WWI mobilized a generation.