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Canterbury in the Great War

Author : Stephen Wynn
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473865328
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Canterbury in the Great War written by Stephen Wynn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historic profile of the English city of Canterbury during World War I and the conflict’s effect on the region and its people. Canterbury had been a garrison town for many years before the war. When hostilities began between Britain and Germany, it was home to the Buffs (East Kent Regiment), who were immediately mobilized for war. They were replaced by the men of the West Kent Yeomanry, a Territorial unit, along with their fellow territorials, the Kent Cyclists, who despite their mode of transport, were an infantry battalion of the British Army, who were formed in 1908. They were tasked with guarding key points along with patrolling the Kent coastline. During the First World War, Canterbury was one of the county’s main recruiting areas, particularly for those men from east Kent. By the end of the war, thousands of men had enthusiastically made their way to the town’s Drill Hall in St Peter's Lane to sign on the dotted line so that they could do their bit for King and country in the nation’s hour of need. Statistics showed that one in four men had enlisted in the British Army. Meanwhile, the town’s civilian population did their part for the war. Some worked in the munitions factories and the Kent VAD hospital, while others worked as air raid wardens. These were extraordinary times that relied on ordinary people to pull together and do whatever they could for the common good. Through researching local newspapers of the day, along with letters, diaries, photographs, parish magazines, trade journals, contemporary printed pamphlets, and more, author Stephen Wynn details the stories of this dramatic era.

The Great War for New Zealand

Author : Vincent O'Malley
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 192727754X
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Great War for New Zealand written by Vincent O'Malley and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning nearly two centuries from first contact through to settlement and apology, this major work focuses on the human impact of the war in the Waikato, its origins and aftermath.

Classic Stories of World War I

Author : Editors of Canterbury Classics
Publisher : Canterbury Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781684125562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Classic Stories of World War I written by Editors of Canterbury Classics and published by Canterbury Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of the finest stories that emerged from World War I. World War I, also known as “the Great War” and “the War to End All Wars,” devastated much of Europe from 1914 to 1918. While the war dramatically changed the world’s political landscape for generations to come, it also brought forth a wide range of powerful and memorable works of literature. This collection includes pieces such as Edith Wharton’s “Coming Home,” Ernest Hemingway’s “In Another Country,” and W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Traitor.” Fourteen classic stories from World War I will give readers a deeper understanding of the lives of the people involved in the conflict.

Enduring the Inferno

Author : Tony Ian Rippin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Enduring the Inferno written by Tony Ian Rippin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than 1000 men and women from South Canterbury died during the war. Several thousand more served their country overseas or at home. Enduring the Inferno was the seventh World War I centennial exhibition from the South Canterbury Museum. It offered a recounting of the main theatres of operations where South Cantabrians served, and in too many cases, made the supreme sacrifice." --Back cover.

From Geraldine to Jericho

Author : Paul Stephen Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473388355
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book From Geraldine to Jericho written by Paul Stephen Barker and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In August 1914 John Barker left his farm near Geraldine in South Canterbury to go to the Great War. He returned more than five years later after having served in the Canterbury Mounted Rifles at Gallipoli and throughout the Middle East. Drawing on his diary, letters and photographs, this book tells the story of John and his family whose lives were shaped by this formative period in New Zealand history."--Publisher description.

The British Army and the First World War

Author : Ian Beckett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107005779
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The British Army and the First World War written by Ian Beckett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War.

The History of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F., 1914-1919

Author : David Ferguson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F., 1914-1919 written by David Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Endurance and the First World War

Author : David Monger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443868388
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Endurance and the First World War written by David Monger and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endurance was an inherent part of the First World War. The chapters in this collection explore the concept in New Zealand and Australia. Researchers from a range of backgrounds and disciplines address what it meant for New Zealanders and Australians to endure the First World War, and how the war endured through the Twentieth Century. Soldiers and civilians alike endured hardship, discomfort, fears and anxieties during the war. Officials and organisations faced unprecedented demands on their time and resources, while Maori, Australian Aborigines, Anglo-Indian New Zealanders and children sought their own ways to contribute and be acknowledged. Family-members in Australia and New Zealand endured uncertainty about their loved ones’ fates on distant shores. Once the war ended, different forms of endurance emerged as responses, memories, myths and memorials quickly took shape and influenced the ways in which New Zealanders and Australians understood the conflict. The collection is divided into the themes of Institutional Endurance, Home Front Endurance, Battlefield Endurance, Race and Endurance, and Memorials.

The Great War and Medieval Memory

Author : Stefan Goebel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521854156
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Great War and Medieval Memory written by Stefan Goebel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies. Taking medievalism as a mode of public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an unprecedented human catastrophe.

New Zealand's Great War

Author : John Crawford
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1927147344
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book New Zealand's Great War written by John Crawford and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays arising out of the OCyZealandiaOCOs Great WarOCO conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New ZealandOCOs involvement in World War One are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who opposed the war, the early years of the RSA, Gallipoli, the infantry on the Somme, New ZealandOCOs involvement in the naval war, prostitution and the New Zealand soldier, the Home Defence, religion in the First World War, and the Armistice. New ZealandOCOs Great War is a fascinating miscellany of informed comment on and insight into the event that did most to shape New Zealand as a nation. Contributors include New ZealandOCOs own Chris Pugsley, Glyn Harper, Terry Kinloch, Monty Soutar, Megan Hutching, Vincent Orange and Bronwyn Dalley, as well as Peter Dennis, Jeffrey Grey, Jennifer Keene, Jenny McLeod, Pierre Purseigle, Peter Stanley and Gary Sheffield from overseas."

Chatham in the Great War

Author : Stephen Wynn
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473827884
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Chatham in the Great War written by Stephen Wynn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chatham played a very important part in the nation's Great War effort. It was one of the British Royal Navy's three 'Manning Ports', with more than a third of the town's ships manned by men allocated to the Chatham Division. The war was only 6 weeks old when Chatham felt the affects of war for the first time. On 22 September 1914, three Royal Naval vessels from the Chatham Division, HMS Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue, were sunk in quick succession by a German submarine, U-9. A total of 1,459 men lost their lives that day, 1,260 of whom were from the Chatham Division. Two months later, on 26 November, the battleship HMS Bulwark exploded and sunk whilst at anchor off of Sheerness on the Kent coast. There was a loss of 736 men, many of whom were from the Chatham area. On 18 August 1914, Private 6737 Walter Henry Smith, who was nineteen and serving with the 6th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, became the first person to be killed during wartime Chatham. He was on sentry duty with a colleague, who accidentally dropped his loaded rifle, discharging a bullet that struck Private Smith and killed him. It wasn't all doom and gloom, however. Winston Churchill, as the First Lord of the Admiralty, visited Chatham early on in the war, on 30 August 1914. On 18 September 1915, two German prisoners of war, Lieutenant Otto Thelen and Lieutenant Hans Keilback, escaped from Donnington Hall in Leicestershire. At first, it was believed they had escaped the country and were on their way back to Germany, but they were re-captured in Chatham four days later. By the end of the war, Chatham and the men who were stationed there had truly played their part in ensuring a historic Allied victory.

Great War Britain Lancaster: Remembering 1914-18

Author : Ian Gregory
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750984929
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Great War Britain Lancaster: Remembering 1914-18 written by Ian Gregory and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, including the deaths of over a thousand 'Men of Lancaster', and its legacy continues to be remembered today. This book looks at the impact that the loss of so many men had on the community and offers an intimate portrayal of Lancaster and its people living in the shadow of the 'war to end all wars'. Drawing on detailed research conducted by the authors and their community partners, it describes the local reaction to the outbreak of war, the experience of individuals who enlisted, the changing face of industry, the women who defied convention to play a vital role on the home front, and how Lancaster coped with the transition to life in peacetime once more. The Great War story of Lancaster draws on all of these experiences to present a unique account of the local reality of a global conflict.

Official History of New Zealand's Effort in the Great War: Powles, C. G. The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Official History of New Zealand's Effort in the Great War: Powles, C. G. The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wisden on the Great War

Author : Andrew Renshaw
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832356
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Wisden on the Great War written by Andrew Renshaw and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lasting memorial to those from the cricketing world who fought and those who fell.

The Great Wrong War

Author : Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN 13 : 1775530884
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book The Great Wrong War written by Stevan Eldred-Grigg and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entirely new look at the shocking impact of the First World War on New Zealand. For New Zealand, World War One was wholly avoidable, wholly unnecessary — and almost wholly disastrous. Stevan Eldred-Grigg believes that the enormous cost of the war to our people was way too high — and that we still feel its effects, both socially and culturally, today. This is excellent narrative non-fiction, analysing our history in a novel way. It's very accessible but is backed up by meticulous research. Stevan goes against the accepted line and gives us a fascinating look at our social history before, during and just after WW1. Why did we go to the war in Europe? Was the country united in its desire for war? What were the economic and social consequences? What has been the impact on the psyches of New Zeland men? These and many other questions are answered in this fascinating book. In 2007 Harvey McQueen wrote in a review of New Zealand's Great War (an anthology of essays) that '[there is] a need for a general, popular history of 'our' Great War... we need a skilled writer in the mould of Sinclair, Oliver or King to give an overview and link the various elements into a coherent whole.' This is that book.

Public Schools and The Great War

Author : Anthony Seldon
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781593086
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Public Schools and The Great War written by Anthony Seldon and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering and original book, Anthony Seldon and David Walsh study the impact that the public schools had on the conduct of the Great War, and vice versa. Drawing on fresh evidence from 200 leading public schools and other archives, they challenge the conventional wisdom that it was the public school ethos that caused needless suffering on the Western Front and elsewhere. They distinguish between the younger front-line officers with recent school experience and the older 'top brass' whose mental outlook was shaped more by military background than by memories of school.??The Authors argue that, in general, the young officers' public school education imbued them with idealism, stoicism and a sense of service. While this helped them care selflessly for the men under their command in conditions of extreme danger, it resulted in their death rate being nearly twice the national average.??This poignant and thought-provoking work covers not just those who made the final sacrifice, but also those who returned, and?whose lives were shattered as a result of their physical and psychological wounds. It contains a wealth of unpublished detail about public school life before and during the War, and how these establishments and the country at large coped with the devastating loss of so many of the brightest and best. Seldon and Walsh conclude that, 100 years on, public school values and character training, far from being concepts to be mocked, remain relevant and that the present generation would benefit from studying them and the example of their predecessors.??Those who read Public Schools and the Great War will have their prevailing assumptions about the role and image of public schools, as popularised in Blackadder, challenged and perhaps changed.

The Last Great War

Author : Adrian Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521450373
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Last Great War written by Adrian Gregory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new history of the British home front during the First World War.