Digging the Trenches: The Archaeology of the Western Front

Digging the Trenches: The Archaeology of the Western FrontDescription by Andrew Robertshaw & David Kenyon Paperback Modern research methods archaeological, historical, and forensic have transformed our view of the past. This is especially true of the history of the Great War. In this, the first comprehensive survey of this exciting new field, Andrew Robertshaw and David Kenyon introduce the reader to the techniques that are employed and record, in vivid detail, many of the remarkable projects that have been

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featured new and innovative tactics — including the use of shock troops

Drawing on material culled from many countries

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Singled Out tells the inspiring stories of these women: the student weeping for a lost world as the Armistice bells pealed

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colonialism and ethnic nationalisms

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The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed

but reviled by Tanzanians for the violence they committed during the making of the colonial state between 1890 and 1918

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