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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:CES: Islands of Peace: The Untold Story of World War I
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SUMMARY:CES: Islands of Peace: The Untold Story of World War I
DESCRIPTION:<p><em>Speaker(s): </em><a href="http://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/people/profiles/t.weber"><strong>Thomas Weber</strong></a>, Professor of History and International Affairs, University of Aberdeen; Visiting Scholar, CES<br> <br> <em>Sponsor(s):  Visiting Scholars Seminar: New Research on Europe</em><br> <br> According to the standard narrative of the history of the twentieth century, the combatants of the Great War – the generation of our great-grandparents – were “men of violence”, sailing through a sea of utter destruction and change towards an ocean of even greater violence. Islands of Peace, the book that Dr. Thomas Weber is in the process of completing, tells a radically different story of the First World War and its meaning to the one hitherto told. It reveals a century-long history of a cover-up of Christmas Truces, meetings in no-man’s land throughout the year, and friendly encounters of soldiers with enemy civilians that occurred, not just in 1914, but throughout the war. These events constitute islands of peace in a sea of violence. <br> <br> <em>Contact(s): </em>Arthur Goldhammer, <a href="mailto:art.goldhammer@gmail.com">art.goldhammer@gmail.com</a></p>
LOCATION:Center for European Studies, Cabot Room, Busch Hall
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