The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade Lusitania Infantry Division in World War

Infantry Division in World War I were outnumbered and inexperienced young men facing hardened veterans

Women began to work in munitions factories

the askari have been poorly understood as historical agents

Shirley s memoir provides a rare view of a community s involvement in a national war effort at a venue geographically far removed from the conflict itself

and the men with whom he served emerge as well-rounded characters against the horrific backdrop of the war

The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade Lusitania Infantry Division in World WarDescription by Philip Jenkins Paperback The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The war was fought