1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200034502

Autore

Lernet-Holenia, Alexander

Titolo

Die wahre Manon / Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg ; Wien, : Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1959

Descrizione fisica

207 p. ; 19 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966176603321

Autore

Keren Michael <1944->

Titolo

We are coming, unafraid : the Jewish legions and the promised land in the First World War / / Michael Keren and Shlomit Keren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2010

ISBN

979-88-8182-741-0

979-82-16-30542-2

1-282-92253-X

9786612922534

1-4422-0550-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KerenShlomit

Disciplina

940.4/1241

Soggetti

Jewish soldiers

World War, 1914-1918

World War, 1914-1918 - Participation, Jewish

HISTORY - Military - World War I

Military participation - Jewish

Personal Narrative

Anecdotes.

History

Personal correspondence

Personal narratives.

Personal narratives



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 (pages 173-185) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; 1; Introduction; 2; Leaving Home; 3; In Distant Lands; 4; To the Front; 5; On Bravery; 6; Hope and Disenchantment; 7; The Chaplain; 8; An Aristocrat of Sorts; 9; Memory and Identity; 10; A Soldier Left Behind; 11; Existential Zionism; Notes; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

This book tells the little-known stories of Jewish soldiers who served in the Jewish Legions during World War I. Three all-Jewish battalions formed in the British army as part of the Allies' Middle East campaign, recruiting soldiers from the United States, Canada, England, and Argentina. Drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, the book follows their journey at sea through unrestricted submarine warfare; by trains and trucks through Europe, Egypt, and Palestine; and their battlefield experiences. The authors show how these Yiddish-speaking young men forged a new kind of soldi