1918 Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the Shaping of History
Ashley Ekins
Apr 2010 · Exisle Publishing
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World War I, 'The Great War' involved the mobilisation of some 70 million soldiers worldwide. It produced images of such pervasive horror on the Western Front that it defined warfare in human memory long into the twentieth century. The war also left a grim legacy: 13 million people died, 9 million of them combatants. Over one-third of those who died were 'missing', having no known graves. The chapters in this book had their origins in an international conference, 1918 Year of Victory, convened by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra in November 2008 to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the end of the Great War. World War I scholars from a number of nations, many of them renowned specialists in their field, gathered to present their research findings and to share their insights into issues surrounding the ending of the Great War, its memory and continuing impact. This highly readable book is a collection of these presentations.
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Ashley Ekins is Head of the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. He specialises in the history of World War One and the Vietnam War and has written widely on these conflicts and on the role of Australian soldiers in the Great War.
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