Athena Sources in the History of World War I
The War Illustrated: Album de luxe全10巻
ISBN 978-4-86340-160-0 ・ A4判 ・ 3900 pp.
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Part 1: Volumes 1–2 (1914-1915)
ISBN 978-4-86340-175-4 • 780 pp. 本体57,000円+税
Part 2: Volumes 3–4 (1915)
ISBN 978-4-86340-176-1 • 780 pp. 本体57,000円+税
Part 3: Volumes 5-6 (1915-1916)
ISBN 978-4-86340-177-8 • 780 pp. 本体57,000円+税
Part 4: Volumes 7-8 (1916-1917)
ISBN 978-4-86340-178-5 • 780 pp. 本体57,000円+税
Part 5: Volumes 9-10 (1917-1919)
ISBN 978-4-86340-179-2 • 780 pp. 本体57,000円+税
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内容
General / Various : Why Britain Went to War (H. G. Wells) • How the Boer War Prepared Us for the Great War (Arthur Conan Doyle) • With the Camera in the War-Stricken Countries • Dogs and Birds That Help the Allied Armies • Scenes of Japan’s Activity in the World War Taken at the Actual Capture of Tsing-Tau • Footballers to Play the Greater Game • Wily Wheeled Warriors: Cyclists in Training • Sports and Pastimes near the Firing-Line • Royal Academy Pictures of the Great War • The Horrors of the Poison War • The Shooting of Nurse Cavell • The Fall of Warsaw: The Eclipse of Russian Poland • Armenians Fight with Russia in Asia Minor • The Death and Resurrection of the Foreign Legion • Is It a Capitalist War? • America’s Roaring War Trade • The Twenty Best War Poems (William Robertson Nicoll) • Army Dogs’ Headquarters • Rebuilding Ruined Lives (Lady Jellicoe) • Scenes in the Tracks of the Sinn Feiners • Camels Travelling to the Front by Train • Japan’s Soldiers as I Know Them (F. A. Mackenzie) • The British Flag over Bagdad • French Honours for American Fighting Heroes • Allies’ Activity against Bolshevist Anarchy, etc.r, etc.
British Empire : United Ireland: A New Source of Strength to the Empire • Fervent Loyalty of the Indian Princes • Terror by Night: The Gurkhas at Work • Boer and Briton Unite against the Teuton • Indian Heroes from Trench to Breezy Brighton • There is No Colour-Line in the Battle-Line • Planting the Union Jack in German Africa • How Botha Saved the Union in South Africa • Britain’s Conquest of the German Cameroon • With the Canadians in Camp and Trench, etc.
The “Home Front” : Will the War Change England? (H. G. Wells) • Workers and “Shirkers” (Marie Corelli) • “His Majesty’s Dockers”: Workers in Khaki • New Garden City for Woolwich War Workers • The Manless Homes of England (Cicely Hamilton ) • The War and Our National Life, etc.c.
Women : Woman’s Healing Work among the Wounded • War’s Diverse Effects on Feminine Temperament • Women Serve the Country in Munition Factories • War and the Real Triumph of Feminism • Some of the Women behind the Guns • Crêche for Women Munition Workers’ Children • Women’s Rural Activities • Women of the Allied Nations on War Work • Daughters of Empire in Diverse Employments, etc.