Experience of a lifetime : people, personalities and leaders in the First World War / edited by John Crawford, David Littlewood & James Watson.

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1915: the search for solutions / Hew Strachan -- The road not taken: Churchill, Kitchener and Alexandretta / James Watson -- Ottoman third corps in crisis: Esat Pasha / Mesut Uyar -- The New Zealand soldier of the First World War 1914-15: Johnny Enzed / Glyn Harper -- A prince of riflemen: Jesse Wallingford at Gallipoli / John Crawford -- A leader in the making: Major Lindsay Inglis / Nathalie Philippe -- `The finest type of coloured men': Indians' and New Zealanders' Encounters on Gallipoli / Peter Stanley -- Neither natural-born British subjects nor aliens: Indians in the New Zealand expeditionary force / Michael Roche and Sita Venkateswar -- Hero of Fiji as a soldier of France: Ratu Sukuna / Hélène Goiran -- From Artilleryman to airman: Keith Park / Adam Claasen -- `Pretty small potatoes': John Slessor in Darfur and on the Western Front / Katherine Moody -- Kiwis rising: New Zealanders and the war in the air / Simon Moody -- `As for sacrifice ... ': The Royal Naval Motor Boat Patrol / Peter Dennerly -- Chronicler of the front line: Clutha Nantes Mackenzie / Carolyn Carr -- Sketching New Zealand's war: William Blomfield and the New Zealand Observer / Steven Loveridge -- CH. 16 `God is on our side': Chaplain Colonel (William) John Aldred Luxford / Zane Kidd.

"The First World War is widely conceived as a pointless conflict that destroyed a generation. Petty squabbles between emperors and elites pushed naïve young men into a nightmare of mud and blood that killed millions and left the survivors scarred and embittered. However the ongoing process of reinterpretation of the First World War reveals that matters were rather more nuanced and complex. Hardship and death were all too common, but there were positive experiences, too. Vast numbers of people, for example, travelled to new parts of the world and encountered new cultures, inspiring a sense of wonder and respect. Military tactics were improved, and training and education would prove useful after the Armistice. Great military commanders of the inter-war and Second World War periods came to prominence during the First World War, and the conflict had a formative influence on politicians, writers, artists, union leaders and businessmen. Some ethnic minorities used their participation to press for equal rights and full citizenship."--Back cover

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