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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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86000883158 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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UK-LoPHL |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20191126135801.0 |
| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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191029s2019 enkaf 001 0|eng|d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781847948311 |
| Qualifying information |
hardback |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(Uk)019454965 |
| 038 ## - RECORD CONTENT LICENSOR |
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| Record content licensor |
Uk |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
StDuBDS |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
StDuBDS |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
UkLoLIB |
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UkLoRLUK |
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UK-LoPHL |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
941.083 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Heffer, Simon, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
77816 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Staring at God : |
| Remainder of title |
Britain in the Great War / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Simon Heffer. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Random House Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 914 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations, facsimiles, portraits (some colour) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
| Source |
rdacontent |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
still image |
| Source |
rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
| Source |
rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
| Source |
rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Published by RH Books, Random House Books. "Random House Books is part of the Penguin Random House group of companies whose addresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com" - publisher's information. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"The Great War evokes images of barbed wire and mud-filled trenches, and of the carnage of the Somme and Passchendaele, but it also involved change on the home front on an almost revolutionary scale. In his hugely ambitious and deeply researched new book, Simon Heffer explores how Britain was drawn into this slaughter, and was then transformed to fight a war in which, at times, its very future seemed in question. After a vivid account of the fraught conversations between Whitehall and Britain’s embassies across Europe as disaster loomed in July 1914, Heffer explains why a government so desperate to avoid conflict found itself championing it. He describes the high politics and low skulduggery that saw the principled but passive Asquith replaced as prime minister by the unscrupulous but energetic Lloyd George; and he unpicks the arguments between politicians and generals about how to prosecute the war, which raged until the final offensive. He looks at the impact of four years of struggle on everyday life as people sought to cope with dwindling stocks of food and essential supplies, with conscription into the Army or wartime industries, with air-raids and with the ever-present threat of bereavement; and, in Ireland, with the political upheaval that followed the Easter Rising. And he shows how, in the spring of 1918, political obstinacy and incompetence saw all this sacrifice almost thrown away. Throughout, he complements his analysis with vivid portraits of the men and women who shaped British life during the war – soldiers such as Lord Kitchener, politicians such as Churchill, pacifists such as Lady Ottoline Morrell, and overmighty subjects such as the press magnate Lord Northcliffe. The result is a richly nuanced picture of an era that endured suffering and loss on an appalling scale but that also advanced the emancipation of women, notions of better health care and education, and pointed the way to a less deferential, more egalitarian future." -- |
| Assigning source |
Taken from dust jacket. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
World War, 1914-1918 |
| Geographic subdivision |
Great Britain. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
49824 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Great Britain |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
George V, 1910-1936. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
15999 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Great Britain |
| General subdivision |
Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision |
1910-1936. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16325 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Great Britain |
| General subdivision |
Social conditions |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16441 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Great Britain |
| General subdivision |
Economic conditions |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
15673 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Suppress in OPAC |
Do not suppress in OPAC |
| Koha item type |
Book |