La Guerra Grande

In questo episodio ci concentriamo su come il conflitto sia stato percepito e vissuto dalle opinioni pubbliche dell'Impero Britannico. Attraverso una prospettiva britannica, indiana, africana, australiana, neozelandese, canadese, e caraibica cercheremo di comprendere come i governi abbiano costruito il loro consenso alla guerra e come l'impero più grande della storia abbia risposto alla chiamata.

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Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

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Fonti dell'episodio:

Carl Benn, Mohawks on the Nile: Natives Among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt, 1884–1885, Dundurn, 2009

Black Canadians in uniform, Government of Canada, 2026

British West Indies Regiment, National Army Museum

Mihir Bose, The Magic of Indian Cricket: Cricket and Society in India

David Chandler, The Oxford History of the British Army, Oxford University Press, 1996

Norman Clothier, Black valour: the South African Native Labour Contingent, 1916-1918, and the sinking of the Mendi, University of Natal Press, 1987

Oliver Coates, Beyond Anonymity: Nigerian Participation in World War One Commemoration: 1919–1939, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 53, 2025

Adam Crerar, Ontario and the Great War, Canada and the First World War: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown, University of Toronto Press, 2005

John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines, Peredur Lynch, The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales, University of Wales Press, 2008

Department of Veterans' Affairs, Internment camps in Australia during World War I, DVA Anzac Portal, 2021

Nándor F. Dreisziger, Ethnic Armies: Polyethnic Armed Forces from the Time of the Habsburgs to the Age of the Superpowers, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990

Gerhard Fischer, ‘Negative integration’ and an Australian road to modernity: Interpreting the Australian homefront experience in World War I, Australian Historical Studies 26, 1995

David Fitzpatrick, Politics and Irish Life, 1913–1921: Provincial Experience of War and Revolution, Cork University Press, 1998

Jack Lawrence Granatstein, Canada, 1914-1918 Online, 2018

Thomas Hennessey, Dividing Ireland, World War I and Partition, Ireland in 1914, Routledge Press, 1998

How The West Indies Helped The War Effort In The First World War, Imperial War Museum

E.A. James, British Regiments 1914–18, Samson Books, 1978

Keith Jeffery, The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918–22, Manchester University Press, 1986

Michael King, Te Puea: A Biography, Hodder and Stoughton, 1977

Kitchener mayor notes 100th year of name change, CBC, 1/9/2016

Norman Leach, Passchendaele: Canada's Triumph and Tragedy on the Fields of Flanders: an Illustrated History, Coteau Books, 2008

Joe Harris Lunn, War Losses (Africa), 1914-1918 Online, 2015

Stuart Macintyre, The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 4: 1901–42, the Succeeding Age, Oxford University Press, 1986

James K. Matthews, World War I and the Rise of African Nationalism: Nigerian Veterans as Catalysts of Change, The Journal of Modern African Studies 20, 1982

Ian McGibbon, The Shaping of New Zealand's War Effort, August–October 1914, New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand, the Allies & the First World War, Exisle Publishing, 2007

Jairus Omuteche, World War 1 and Colonialism in Kenya: Perspectives through Historiography and Literary Imaginaries, Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies 10, 2024

Panikos Payani, Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War, Manchester University Press, 2013

Panikos Payani, Enemy in our Midst: Germans in Britain during the First World War, Bloomsbury, 2014

Christopher S. Rose, Egypt, 1914-1918 Online, 2024

T. C. Smout, A Century of The Scottish People, 1830–1950, Collins 1986

Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War. 1914–1920, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1922

Robert J. Talbot, 'It would be best to leave us alone': First Nations Responses to the Canadian War Effort, Journal of Canadian Studies 45, 2011

The Story Of The British West Indies Regiment In The First World War, Imperial War Museum

James W. G. Walker, Race and Recruitment in World War I, Vancouver Island University, 2001

H. P. Willmott, La Prima Guerra Mondiale, DK, 2006

WW1 From an Indian Perspective, Imperial War Museums, 2025

In copertina: cartolina propagandista britannica pubblicata nel 1916. La Gran Bretagna, il leone, conduce i propri cuccioli, ovvero Canada, India, Australia e Sudafrica. © Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection.

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In questo episodio speciale ho avuto il piacere di fare qualche domanda alla dott. ssa Ginevra Zelaschi, ricercatrice presso il Centro di Studi Storici di Rovigno, e col dott. Marco Zelaschi. Due fratelli accomunati da una grande passione per la Marina Austroungarica, con i quali abbiamo attraversato due secoli della storia di questa ben poco conosciuta componente delle forze armate austroungariche.

In copertina: La fregata SMS Novara nel corso del suo giro del mondo (1857-1859).

Un singolo incrociatore tedesco porta scompiglio nei Caraibi, per poi sparire misteriosamente. Nel Mare del Nord, la guerra colpisce con crudeltà anche i civili, su suolo britannico. 

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Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

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Fonti dell'episodio:

Stuart Ball, Cristopher Wright, H.M.S. Bulwark, Warship International 21International Naval Research Organization, 1984

C. Barnes, D. James, Shorts Aircraft since 1900, Putnam, 1989

M. B. Barrass, Air Vice Marshal Charles Humphrey Kingsman Edmonds, Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation, 2016

Geoffrey Bennett, Naval Battles of the First World War, Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2005

J. Bourne, Who's Who in World War One, Psychology Press, 2001

J. Bruce, The Short Seaplanes: Historic Military Aircraft, Flight 70, 1956

Winston Churchill, The World Crisis, 1911–1914, Thornton Butterworth, 1923

Churchill Papers, Reference code: CHAR 13/60/22, 7/2/1915

J. S. Corbett, Naval Operations, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, Imperial War Museum and Naval & military Press, Longmans, 1929

Cuxhaven Raid, The Times, 19/2/1915

James W. Garner, Some Questions of International Law in the European War, American Journal of International Law 9, 1915

Hans Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans Otto Steinmetz, Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe: Biographien – ein Spiegel der Marinegeschichte von 1815 bis zur Gegenwart, Mundus Verlag, 1993

Home Waters—Part II.: September and October 1914, Naval Staff Monographs Vol. XI, The Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division, 1924

It is Magnificent but it is not War, The Indipendent, 28/12/1914

M. Karau, Wielding the Dagger, Praeger, 2003

Timothy Kutta, Cuxhaven Raid – Britain's Bold Strike From the Sea, HistoryNet, 2006

Norman Litchfield, The Territorial Artillery 1908–1988 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges), Sherwood Press, 1992

R. Massie, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea,  

Jonathan Cape, 2004 Dwight Messimer, Find and Destroy: Antisubmarine Warfare in World War I, Naval Institute Press, 2001

Georges Ohnet, Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris Pendant la Guerre de 1914, 1914

E. Osborne, Cruisers and Battle Cruisers: An Illustrated History of Their Impact (Weapons and Warfare), ABC-CLIO, 2004

Thobias Philbin, Admiral von Hipper: The Inconvenient Hero, Grüner Publishing Co, 1982

Prison for Yorck’s captain, The New York Times, 28/12/1914

V. E. Tarrant, Jutland: The German Perspective, Cassell Military Paperbacks, 1995

Spencer Tucker, Priscilla Mary Roberts, Encyclopedia of World War I, ABC-CLIO, 2001

Hugo von Waldeyer-Hartz, Admiral Von Hipper, Rich & Cowe, 1933  

In copertina: civili in fuga ad Hartlepool, Hartlepool Museum Service.

Le forze tedesche in Namibia si ritrovano a combattere non solo contro i Sudafricani, ma anche contro i Portoghesi, presenti in Angola. Nel frattempo la rivolta afrikaner viene rapidamente sedata dalle forze rimaste fedeli al governo.

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Fonti dell'episodio:

Max Ewald Baericke, Naulila. Erinnerungen eines Zeitgenossen, Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Entwicklung und Museum Swakopmund, Südwestafrika/Namibia, 1981

Jurgens Johannes Britz, Genl S G (Manie) Maritz se aandeel aan die rebellie van 1914 – 1915, University of Pretoria, 1979

Augusto Casimiro, Naulila: 1914, Seara Nova, 1922

Hugh Chisholm, Beyers, Christian Frederick, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1922

Peter Dickens, The Nazification of the Afrikaner Right, The Observation Post, 2023

Peter Dickens, What about Jopie?, The Observation Post, 2024

Leonor Faber-Jonker, Rivers of Blood and Rivers of Money. The Cambridge World History of Genocide, Cambridge University Press, 2023

L. Fraga, Do intervencionismo ao sidonismo: os dois segmentos da política de guerra na 1a República, 1916–1918, Universidade de Coimbra, 2010

Hermann Giliomee, The Afrikaners: Biography of a People, Hurst, 2003

Ken Gillings, World War 1 comes to the Northern Cape, The Genealogical Society of South Africa, 2023

Hans Schultze-Jena, Namibiana, 2013

John Higginson, A Glass Brimming Over: The Failed 1914 Rebellion in Rustenburg and Marico, Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900–1948, Cambridge University Press, 2014

Kemp, Jan Christoffel Greyling, Dictionary of South African Biography, Human Sciences Research Council, 1981

Diogo Matias, As operações militares de manutenção do Império Português em África: Uma visão sobre as tácticas usadas na perspectiva da doutrina actual, 2010

Ana Mira, Actas das Sessões Secretas da Câmara dos Deputados e do Senado da República sobre a participação de Portugal na I Grande Guerra, Assembleia da Republica, 2002

Robert Murray, The doctor and the rebels. The diary of Dr Charles Molteno Murray in the Boer Rebellion of 1914, Military History Journal 14, The South African Military History Society, 2008

Robert Murray, The War Diaries of Dr Charles Molteno 'Kenah' Murray, The Boer Rebellion in South Africa: November 1914 – February 1915, 2012

Hamish Paterson, First Allied Victory. The South African campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914-1915, Military History Journal 13, The South African Military History Society

João Manuel Rocha, Angola – a frente esquecida, Publico, 31/08/2014

Philip Sampson, The Capture of De Wet : the South African Rebellion, 1914, Edward Arnold, 1915

M. Van Schoor, Generaal J.C.G. Kemp en die epiese woestyntog, Protea Boekhuis, 2006

Adriaan Snyman, Stem Van 'n Profeet, Hugenote Publikasies, 1993

A. C. Stern, Von Heydebreck, Joachim, Dictionary of South African Biography, Human Sciences Research Council, 1987

Hew Strachan, The First World War: Volume I: To Arms, Oxford University Press, 2003

Frikkie Wallis, News Journal: facts and notes over 1000 years, Human & Rousseau, 2000

A. R. Willcox, Great river: the story of the Orange River, Drakensberg Publications, 1986

Jakob Zollmann, Naulila 1914. World War I in Angola and International Law, Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts 35, 2016

In copertina: fotografia ricolorizzata da Johnny B., risalente al tempo della seconda guerra angloboera del 1899-1902. Al centro di un kommando sono seduti a sinistra Jan Smuts e a destra Manie Maritz. 12 anni dopo, nel corso della rivolta boera, i due ex commilitoni si sarebbero trovati su schieramenti opposti.

Le forze tedesche in Camerun e in Tanzania offrono una resistenza inaspettata agli invasori. In questo ultimo scenario, uno dei migliori comandanti dell'intero conflitto dimostra di che pasta è fatto, respingendo una forza d'invasione otto volte superiore alla sua... con l'aiuto di alcune api.

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Scritto e condotto da Andrea Basso

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Fonti dell'episodio:

David Burg, Purcell Edward, Almanac of World War I, University of Kentucky, 1998

Der Raubzug Gegen Unsere Kolonien, Der Täglichen Rundschau, 1915

Charles Dobell, United Kingdom War Office Cameroons Campaign Army Despatch, 1916

Golf Dornseif, Kameruner Endkampf Um Die Festung Moraberg, 2010

Byron Farwell, The Great War in Africa, 1914–1918, Norton & Company, 1989

Fighting in British East Africa: an officer’s story – archive, 1915, The Guardian, 15/1/2020

Edwin Hoyt, Guerilla: Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck and Germany's East African Empire, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1981

Charles Miller, Battle for the Bundu: The First World War in German East Africa, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974

Herbert O'Neill, The War in Africa and the Far East, Longmans, 1918

George Ndakwena Njung, Soldiers of their own. Honor, violence, resistance and conscription in colonial Cameroon during the First World War, University of Michigan, 2016

Dan Robinson, The Cameroon Diary of Arthur Lees 1914-1915, Mandaras, 2010

Edward Paice, Tip & Run - The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007

Francis Reynolds, Allen Churchill, Francis Miller, The Cameroons, The Story of the Great War, 1916

Brahma Singh, History of Jammu and Kashmir Rifles, 1820-1956: The State Force Background, Lancer International, 1990

David Smith, The East Africa Campaign 1914-18, 2022

Hew Strachan, To Arms. The First World War, Oxford University Press, 2001

Hew Strachan, The First World War in Africa, Oxford University Press, 2004

Ian Sumner, The Indian Army 1914–1947, Osprey Publishing, 1947

Michael Vogel, The Hungry War: German East Africa in World War I, Warfare History, 2006

In copertina: Dal Bundesarchiv, una foto di Walther Dobbertin, uno dei fotografi più attivi nell'Africa Orientale Tedesca. Ritrae un gruppo di ascari germanici impegnato in un'azione, probabilmente una esercitazione. Alcuni sostengono invece che la foto sia stata scattata proprio durante la battaglia di Tanga.