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Author : Ellison Hawks
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (499 download)
Download or read book A Subaltern's Letters from the Somme written by Ellison Hawks and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. B. Hoyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847349354
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Some Letters from a Subaltern on the Western Front. July 1915-June 1916. written by J. B. Hoyle and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters home from officers on the Western Front - (other ranks were not allowed to write uncensored letters) - have become a genre of English literature, remarkable for their poignancy, especially for those whose senders did not return. Such a one was the author of this collection - originally privately printed for his family and friends. John (known as Jack to his family ) Baldwin Hoyle MC was on the western front for one year - between July 1915 and July 1st 1916, when he was killed in the slaughter that marked the first day of the battle of the Somme. Lt. Hoyles was a dutiful son - his parents say he wrote to them almost every day, and his letters and postcards were designed to let them know of his doings without unduly worrying them. They had much reason to be anxious, for their other son, Geoffrey Hoyle had been killed at Hooge outside Ypres soon after Jack reached the front. Tragically, Jack was to follow him. Acting as Forward Observation Officer - a task he had been anxious not to 'mess up' - for his battalion (the 7th South Lancashire Regiment) he was seen entering a German trench near Ovillers where his comrades had suffered cruel punishment from enemy machine guns. He did not return and his body was never found. These letters must stand as the memorial to a brave man and loving son whose courage, in his bereaved parents' words, 'Never failed him as he followed to the end a road that, until duty pointed, he had never dreamed that he should tread'.
Author : Mark VII (pseud.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916 written by Mark VII (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark VII.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (162 download)
Download or read book A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916 written by Mark VII. and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Richardson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147387811X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Eyewitness on the Somme 1916 written by Matthew Richardson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the soldiers experience of the Battle of the Somme? How did the men who were there record their part in the fighting or remember it afterwards? How can we, 100 years later, gain an insight into one of the most famous and contentious - episodes of the Great War? Matthew Richardsons graphic account, which is based on the vivid personal testimony of those who took part, offers us a direct impression of the reality of the battle from the perspective of the ordinary soldiers and junior officers on the front line. He draws heavily on previously unpublished personal accounts letters, diaries, and memoirs, some never before translated into English to build up a multifaceted picture of the Somme offensive from the first disastrous day of the attack, through the subsequent operations between July and November 1916. In their own words, the soldiers who were caught up in the conflict recall in unflinching detail the fighting across the entire Somme battlefield. The narrative features the recollections of British, Commonwealth, French and American soldiers, and interweaves their testimony with descriptions left by their German adversaries. For the first time in a single volume, the reader has the opportunity to explore all facets of this momentous five-month-long struggle. Over 100 black-and-white contemporary photographs, many previously unpublished, accompany the text, whilst a selection of artifacts recovered from the battlefield is illustrated in colour. These striking objects bear silent witness to the ferocity of the battle, and often reflect some moment of personal tragedy.
Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473855225
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Somme written by Richard van Emden and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic and brutal WWI battle is vividly recounted through the words and photos of the soldiers who lived through it. One of the most famous battles of the Great War, the offensive on the Somme took place in 1916, from July and November. It was there that Kitcheners famous Pals Battalions were first sent into action en masse. It was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a nation, hopeful of victory, were agonizingly dashed. Because of its legendary status, the Battle of the Somme has been the subject of many books. Yet this volume is the first of its kind, in which the soldiers’ own stories and photographs are used to illustrate both the campaign's extraordinary comradeship and its carnage.
Author : Gerald Gliddon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752495356
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Somme 1916 written by Gerald Gliddon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set out topographically, it covers everything from the famous battle sites of High Wood and Mametz Wood to obscure villages on the outlying flanks. The British first began to take the Somme sector over from the French Army in June 1915. From this time onwards they built up a very close bond with the local population, many of whom continued to live in local villages close to the front line. The author draws on the latest research and analysis, as well as the testimony of those who took part, to present all aspects of a battle that was to become a symbol of the horrors of the Great War.
Author : Frederick George Aflalo
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Literary Year-book written by Frederick George Aflalo and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Atkin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795412
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book A war of individuals written by Jonathan Atkin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book draws together for the very first time examples of the 'aesthetic pacifism' practised during the Great War by such celebrated individuals as Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon and Bertrand Russell. In addition, the book outlines the stories of those less well-known who shared the mind-set of the Bloomsbury Group when it came to facing the first 'total war'. The research for this study took five years, gathering evidence from all the major archives in Great Britain and abroad. This is the first time that such wide-ranging evidence has been placed together in order to paint a complete picture of this fascinating form of anti-war expression.
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805083019
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Somme written by Martin Gilbert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gilbert has unearthed fascinating details of the campaign . . . An unforgettable read."—The Philadelphia Inquirer At 7:30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged into no-man's-land, toward the barbed wire and machine guns at the German front lines. In the months that followed, the fifteen-mile-long territory erupted into the epicenter of the Great War, marking a pivotal moment in both the war and military history as tanks first appeared on the battlefield and air war emerged as a devastating and decisive factor in battle. All told, there were more than one million casualties, with 310,000 men dead in just 138 days. In this vivid account of one of history's most destructive battles, distinguished historian Martin Gilbert tracks the experiences of foot soldiers, generals, and everyone in between. With new photographs, journal entries, original maps, and military planning documents, The Somme is the most authoritative and affecting account of this bloody turning point in the Great War.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Pharmaceutical Journal and Pharmacist written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199971978
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Great War and Modern Memory written by Paul Fussell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on publication in 1970. Today, Fussell's landmark study remains as original and gripping as ever: a literate, literary, and unapologetic account of the Great War, the war that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. This brilliant work illuminates the trauma and tragedy of modern warfare in fresh, revelatory ways. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who--with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning--most effectively memorialized World War I as an historical experience. Dispensing with literary theory and elevated rhetoric, Fussell grounds literary texts in the mud and trenches of World War I and shows how these poems, diaries, novels, and letters reflected the massive changes--in every area, including language itself--brought about by the cataclysm of the Great War. For generations of readers, this work has represented and embodied a model of accessible scholarship, huge ambition, hard-minded research, and haunting detail. Restored and updated, this new edition includes an introduction by historian Jay Winter that takes into account the legacy and literary career of Paul Fussell, who died in May 2012.
Author : Mark Meredith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Who's who in Literature written by Mark Meredith and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains list of "Fictitious and pseudonymous names."
Author : T. S. Eliot
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300225245
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Letters of T. S. Eliot written by T. S. Eliot and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth volume of the personal correspondences of British literary giant T. S. Eliot The letters of T. S. Eliot collected in this sixth volume were written during the years the Nobel Prize–winning poet, playwright, critic, and essayist called, “the happiest I can ever remember in my life.” Penned in large part during his tour of Depression Era America, these letters reflect Eliot’s resolve to end his torturous eighteen-year marriage to his wife, Vivienne, and offer fascinating descriptions of the author’s encounters with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, Marianne Moore, and other notable figures.
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1108 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Fletcher
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300198566
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front written by Anthony Fletcher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was inspired by the author’s discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unmentioned for many decades. Intrigued by the heartbreak and history of these family letters, Fletcher sought out the correspondence of other British soldiers who had volunteered for the fight against Germany. This resulting volume offers a vivid account of the physical and emotional experiences of seventeen British soldiers whose letters survive. Drawn from different regiments, social backgrounds, and areas of England and Scotland, they include twelve officers and five ordinary “Tommies.” The book explores the training, journey to France, fear, shellshock, and life in the trenches as well as the leisure, love, and home leave the soldiers dreamed of. Fletcher discusses the psychological responses of 17- and 18-year-old men facing appalling realities and considers the particular pressures on those who survived their fallen comrades. While acknowledging the horror and futility the soldiers of the Great War experienced, the author shows another side to the story, focusing new attention on the loyal comradeship, robust humor, and strong morale that uplifted the men at the Front and created a powerful bond among them.
