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Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Admiralty Transport Department written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : List & Index Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Admiralty, Transport Dept., Correspondence and Papers, 1916-1917 (MT23/474-820) written by List & Index Society and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen McGreal
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844689557
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book The War on Hospital Ships, 1914–1918 written by Stephen McGreal and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often said The first casualty of war is the truth and there is no better example of this than the furore caused by the claims and counterclaims of the British and German Governments at the height of the First World War. Wounded allied personnel were invariably repatriated by hospital ships, which ran the gauntlet of mined waters and gambled on the humanity of the U-Boat commanders. For, contrary to the terms of the Geneva Convention, on occasions Germany had sunk the unarmed hospital ships under the pretense they carried reinforcement troops and ammunition. The press seized on these examples of Hun Barbarity, especially the drowning of noncombatant female nurses. The crisis heightened following the German Governments 1 February 1917 introduction of unrestricted naval warfare. The white painted allied hospital ships emblazoned with huge red crosses now became in German eyes legitimate targets for the U-Boats. As the war on the almost 100 strong fleet of hospital ships intensified the British threatened reprisals against Germany, in particular an Anglo-French bombing raid upon a German town. Undeterred the Germans stepped up their campaign sinking two hospital ships in swift succession. Seven hospital ships struck mines and a further eight were torpedoed. Faced with such a massacre of the innocents Britain decided her hospital ships, painted and brightly lit in accordance with the Geneva Convention, could no longer rely on this immunity. The vessels were repainted in drab colors, defensively armed and sailed as ambulance transports among protected convoys. Germany had successfully banished hospital ships from the high seas.
Author : Geoff puddefoot
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848320744
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Ready For Anything written by Geoff puddefoot and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set up in August 1905, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary unofficial motto: Ready for Anything was originally a logistic support organisation, Admiralty-owned but run on civilian lines, comprising a miscellaneous and very unglamorous collection of colliers, store ships and harbour craft. This book charts its rise in fleet strength, capability and importance, through two world wars and a technical revolution, until the time when naval operations became simply impossible without it. Its earliest tasks were mainly freighting supplying the Royal Navys worldwide network of bases but in wartime fleets were required to spend much longer at sea and the RFA had to develop techniques of underway replenishment. This did not come to full fruition until the British Pacific Fleet operated alongside the Americans in 1944-45, but by then the RFA had already pioneered many of the procedures involved. This book combines a history of the service, including many little-known wartime operations, with data on the ships, and a portrait of life in the service gleaned from personal accounts and recollections. Half way between a civilian and a military service, the RFA has never received the attention it deserves, but this book throws a long-overdue spotlight on its achievements.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Reports from Committees written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Admiralty
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (973 download)
Download or read book The Navy List written by Great Britain. Admiralty and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Stephenson
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399062638
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Churchill as Home Secretary written by Charles Stephenson and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can be few statesmen whose lives and careers have received as much investigation and literary attention as Winston Churchill. Relatively little however has appeared which deals specifically or holistically with his first senior ministerial role; that of Secretary of State for the Home Office. This may be due to the fact that, of the three Great Offices of State which he was to occupy over the course of his long political life, his tenure as Home Secretary was the briefest. The Liberal Government, of which he was a senior figure, had been elected in 1906 to put in place social and political reform. Though Churchill was at the forefront of these matters, his responsibility for domestic affairs led to him facing other, major, challenges departmentally; this was a time of substantial commotion on the social front, with widespread industrial and civil strife. Even given that ‘Home Secretaries never do have an easy time’, his period in office was thus marked by a huge degree of political and social turbulence. The terms ‘Tonypandy’ and ‘Peter the Painter’ perhaps spring most readily to mind. Rather less known is his involvement in one of the burning issues of the time, female suffrage, and his portrayal as ‘the prisoners’ friend’ in terms of penal reform. Aged 33 on appointment, and the youngest Home Secretary since 1830, he became empowered to wield the considerable executive authority inherent in the role of one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and he certainly did not shrink from doing so. There were of course commensurate responsibilities, and how he shouldered them is worth examination.
Author : Kathleen Burk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317700503
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Britain, America and the Sinews of War 1914-1918 (RLE The First World War) written by Kathleen Burk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-American relations were transformed during the First World War. Britain was already in long-term economic decline relative to the United States, but this decline was accelerated by the war, which was militarily a victory for Britain, but economically a catastrophe. This book sets out the economic, and in particular, the financial relations between the two powers during the war, setting it in the context of the more familiar political and diplomatic relationship. Particular attention is paid to the British war missions sent out to the USA, which were the agents for much of the financial and economic negotiation, and which are rescued here from underserved historical obscurity.
Author : Edwin A. Pratt
Publisher : London : Selwyn and Blount
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book British Railways and the Great War written by Edwin A. Pratt and published by London : Selwyn and Blount. This book was released on 1921 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317172213
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Britain's War At Sea, 1914-1918 written by Greg Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain, memory of the First World War remains dominated by the trench warfare of the Western Front. Yet, in 1914 when the country declared war, the overwhelming expectation was that Britain’s efforts would be primarily focussed on the sea. As such, this volume is a welcome corrective to what is arguably an historical neglect of the naval aspect of the Great War. As well as reassessing Britain’s war at sea between 1914 and 1918, underlining the oft neglected contribution of the blockade of the Central Powers to the ending of the war, the book also offers a case study in ideas about military planning for ’the next war’. Questions about how next wars are thought about, planned for and conceptualised, and then how reality actually influences that thinking, have long been - and remain - key concerns for governments and military strategists. The essays in this volume show what ’realities’ there are to think about and how significant or not the change from pre-war to war was. This is important not only for historians trying to understand events in the past, but also has lessons for contemporary strategic thinkers who are responsible for planning and preparing for possible future conflict. Britain’s pre-war naval planning provides a perfect example of just how complex and uncertain that process is. Building upon and advancing recent scholarship concerning the role of the navy in the First World War, this collection brings to full light the dominance of the maritime environment, for Britain, in that war and the lessons that has for historians and military planners.
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Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Shipbuilding and Shipping Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office: State papers and departmental records written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Commonwealth Shipping Committee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report written by Commonwealth Shipping Committee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal United Service Institution written by Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Beckett
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855109
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Victorians at War written by Ian Beckett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Beckett's book is already established as the definitive history of the Victorian army. >
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Hazell's annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The New Hazell Annual and Almanack written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
