1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009725280403321

Autore

Verdi, Claudio

Titolo

Problemi di analisi numerica : con algoritmi di programmazione / C. Verdi, V. Milanese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : CLUED, stampa 1985

ISBN

88-7059-105-0

Descrizione fisica

168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Milanese, Vitaliano

Disciplina

519.4076

Locazione

DINEL

Collocazione

10 B II 118

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460959703321

Autore

Crocker Terri Blom

Titolo

The Christmas truce : myth, memory, and the First World War / / Terri Blom Crocker ; foreword by Peter Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8131-7402-3

0-8131-6665-9

0-8131-6616-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

940.4/21

Soggetti

Christmas Truce, 1914

World War, 1914-1918 - Campaigns - Western Front

World War, 1914-1918 - Armistices

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"A candle lit in the darkness": the Christmas truce and the First World War -- "Absolute hell": the Western Front in 1914 -- "A great day with our enemies": the Christmas truce -- "No war today": the Christmas truce as reported in official war diaries and regimental histories -- "One day of peace at the front": the Christmas truce and the British press -- "That unique and weird Christmas": the Christmas truce during the war -- "The curious Christmas truce": the First World War and the Christmas truce, 1920-1959 -- "The famous Christmas truce": the First World War and the Christmas truce, 1960-1969 -- "The legendary Christmas truce": the First World War, the Christmas truce, and social history, 1970-1989 -- "Memories of Christmas 1914 persist": orthodoxy, revisionism, and the Christmas truce, 1990-2014 -- "It was peace that won": the Christmas truce and the narrative of the First World War.

Sommario/riassunto

The 1914 Christmas truce, when enemy soldiers met, fraternized, and even played football in No Man's Land during the first year of the First World War, is commonly perceived as a manifestation of the anger that



soldiers felt toward the meaningless war that they had been tricked into fighting. Contemporaneous sources, however, show that the truce was not an act of defiance; rather, it arose from the professionalism of the soldiers involved, the conditions of static trench warfare, foul weather on the Western Front, the absence of major battles, and memories of traditional celebrations of Christmas. The truce, in short, was caused by rain, mud, curiosity, lack of personal animosity toward the enemy, and homesickness, rather than by frustration and rebellion.