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August 1914: France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever Hardcover – August 23, 2016
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On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks.
Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone—the worst catastrophe in French military history. Refugees streamed into France as the German army advanced, spreading rumors that amplified still more the ordeal of war. Citizens of enemy countries who were living in France were viciously scapegoated. Drawing from diaries, personal correspondence, police reports, and government archives, Bruno Cabanes renders an intimate, narrative-driven study of the first weeks of World War I in France. Told from the perspective of ordinary women and men caught in the flood of mobilization, this revealing book deepens our understanding of the traumatic impact of war on soldiers and civilians alike.
August 1914 was a finalist for a prestigious French book award, the Prix Fémina for nonfiction, in 2014.
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication dateAugust 23, 2016
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.94 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-100300208278
- ISBN-13978-0300208276
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“This is an exceptional book, a brilliant, moving, and insightful analysis of national mobilization.”—Martha Hanna, author of Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War
“Bruno Cabanes is without question one of the leading historians of War and Society writing anywhere. August 1914 is a remarkable account of the first month of the Great War in France. Brilliantly written, it brings together diplomatic, military, political, and social history in an engrossing narrative of daily life in a new and unprecedentedly murderous conflict.” —John Merriman, Charles Seymour Professor of History, Yale University
“Renowned military historian Bruno Cabanes has given us an extraordinarily moving account of the first traumatic weeks of the Great War. Using largely neglected primary sources and eschewing the well-trodden diplomatic approach, Cabanes focuses on the passions and traumas of an entire people. This book deserves a wide readership from historians, critics and anyone interested in the catastrophe of war.”—Mary Louise Roberts, Distinguished Lucie Aubrac and Plaenert-Bascom Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“The First World War has now faded below the horizon of living memory, but in this marvelous book, beautifully written and translated, Bruno Cabanes gives us as vivid a sense as possible of what it was like to be in France during the war’s first month. The sounds, sights and emotions of August, 1914 are all evoked with exceptional skill.”—David A. Bell, author of The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
“This is an exceptional book, a brilliant, moving, and insightful analysis of national mobilization.”—Martha Hanna, author of Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War -- Martha Hanna
“Bruno Cabanes is without question one of the leading historians of War and Society writing anywhere. August 1914 is a remarkable account of the first month of the Great War in France. Brilliantly written, it brings together diplomatic, military, political, and social history in an engrossing narrative of daily life in a new and unprecedentedly murderous conflict.” —John Merriman, Charles Seymour Professor of History, Yale University -- John Merriman
“Renowned military historian Bruno Cabanes has given us an extraordinarily moving account of the first traumatic weeks of the Great War. Using largely neglected primary sources and eschewing the well-trodden diplomatic approach, Cabanes focuses on the passions and traumas of an entire people. This book deserves a wide readership from historians, critics and anyone interested in the catastrophe of war.”—Mary Louise Roberts, Distinguished Lucie Aubrac and Plaenert-Bascom Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
-- Mary Louise Roberts
“The First World War has now faded below the horizon of living memory, but in this marvelous book, beautifully written and translated, Bruno Cabanes gives us as vivid a sense as possible of what it was like to be in France during the war’s first month. The sounds, sights and emotions of August, 1914 are all evoked with exceptional skill.”—David A. Bell, author of The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It -- David A. Bell
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- Publisher : Yale University Press; First Edition (August 23, 2016)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0300208278
- ISBN-13 : 978-0300208276
- Item Weight : 1 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.94 x 8.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,156,374 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Originally published in French in 2014, this is not so much a history of the first month of the Great War as an examination of how the war affected and changed society. Prof. Cabanes (Ohio State), does this by examining several themes, popular responses to the imminence of war, political and military actions, dislocation though mobilization, the horrors of the “Battle of the Frontiers,” the looming threat of defeat, the maniacal search for “spies” and “saboteurs,” the rise of rumor, the flight of refugees, and the pressures of occupation. Although some of his observations on military planning are dated, Cabanes in general does a good job in telling us how people – workers, shopkeepers, soldiers, men, women, even children – experienced these events, and how these experiences and events shaped not only how the war would unfold, but the world down to the present. Well written, this is a good read for the layman and worthwhile for the scholar.'
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The information it did contain was interesting, but if you're looking for something more specifically about combat during the opening of WW1 in Europe something like Lost Opportunity by Simon House, Catastrophe by Max Hastings or Sewell Tyng's Campaign of the Marne will do you better.