Astrology and Western society from the First World War to COVID-19 /

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The modern Middle East : a political history since the First World War / by Kamrava, Mehran, 1964-

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International yearbook of futurism studies.

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Catching the torch : contemporary Canadian literary responses to World War I / by Gordon, Neta, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction Contemporary Canadian First World War Narratives: Remembering Canada's Best Self -- Chapter One The Dead Speak: Considering the Use of Prosopopoeia in Dancock's Dance, Mary's Wedding, and The Deep -- Chapter Two The War and Concepts of Nation in Jack Hodgins's Broken Ground and Frances Itani's Deafening -- Chapter Three Abandoning the Archivist: Commemorating the War Insider and Outsider in the First World War Novels of Alan Cumyn and Jane Urquhart -- Chapter Four Other Canadians: The Representation of Alternative Versions of the Canadian War in Vimy, Unity (1918), Three Day Road, and A Secret Between Us -- Conclusion Representations of the First World War and Wishing.…”
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Battlefield rations : the food given to the British soldier for marching and fighting 1900-2011 / by Clayton, Anthony, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; The Boer War: 1899-1902; The First World War: The Western Front 1914-1918; The First World War: Other Theatres 1914-1918; The Inter-War Years: 1919-1939; The Second World War: 1942-1945; The Second World War: 1939-1942; The Post-War Years 1945-1965; The Post-War Years: 1968-2010; Conclusion; Appendix; Sources & Select Bibliography; Index.…”
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Death in modern theatre : stages of mortality / by Curtin, Adrian, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction: Stages of mortality; Beyond the veil: sensing death in symbolist theatre; Fantastical representations of death in First World War drama; The absurd drama of modern death denial; Theatres of catastrophe after Auschwitz and Hiroshima; The drama of dying in the early twenty-first century; Conclusion: Unending; References; Index…”
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Death in modern theatre : stages of mortality / by Curtin, Adrian, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction: Stages of mortality; Beyond the veil: sensing death in symbolist theatre; Fantastical representations of death in First World War drama; The absurd drama of modern death denial; Theatres of catastrophe after Auschwitz and Hiroshima; The drama of dying in the early twenty-first century; Conclusion: Unending; References; Index…”
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The history and politics of Star wars : Death Stars and democracy / by Kempshall, Chris

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Landscapes of war and memory : the two World Wars in Canadian literature and the arts, 1977-2007 / by Grace, Sherrill, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Remembering the Nation in the First World War. Novels - from The Wars to Three Day Road -- Theatres of War - from Billy Bishop to Vimy -- "Away to the War and Back Again" - Remembering Canada in Film and Auto/Biography -- Part III. …”

The Edinburgh history of the Greeks, 20th and early 21st centuries : global perspectives / by Liakos, Antōnēs, 1947-, Doumanis, Nicholas, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Greeks at the beginning of the twentieth century; 2. The 'long First World War' (1912-1922); 3. The wider Greek world I: The end of the age of empire; 4. …”
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Dying and death in 18th-21st century Europe.

Table of Contents: “…Table of contents; fear and the unknown; ethnography; communication with the deadand feminine ecstatic experiencein south and south-westernrural romania; lithuanian funeral customs duringthe end of the 19th-21st centuries; two different burial ritualsin the same village of romania; diving into the silence; history; the reinvention of protestantfuneral ceremoniesin nineteenth-century germany; lay saints; german widowsof the first world war; changes in funeral customs; esotericism and death; cremation in communist romania; philosophy, literature, music.…”
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Frontline : combat and cohesion in twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…On cohesion / Anthony King-- Subaltern soldiers : Eurocentricism and the nation-state in the combat motivation debates / Tarak Barkawi -- Killing and cohesion in close combat : contexts and concepts from the First World War to the present / Rob Johnson -- From a sociology of units to a sociology of combat formations : militaries and cohesion in urban combat / Eyal Ben-Ari -- Discipline and punish : encouraging combat performance in the citizen and professional army / Anthony King -- Combat and cohesion in the early twentieth century : strengthening the inverted pyramid / Antulio J. …”

The watermelon boys / by Izzidien, Ruqaya

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Sounds like London : 100 years of black music in the capital / by Bradley, Lloyd

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The confidence trap : a history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present / by Runciman, David

Ireland at War and Peace. by O'Malley-Younger, Alison

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Remaking the modern world 1900-2015 : global connections and comparisons / by Bayly, C. A.

Imagining home : American war fiction from Hemingway to 9/11 / by Farrell, Susan Elizabeth, 1963-

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The confidence trap : a history of democracy in crisis from World War I to the present / by Runciman, David

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America in the world : a history in documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror /