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Author : John Benjamin Firth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dover and the Great War written by John Benjamin Firth and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Wynn
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473865050
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Dover in the Great War written by Stephen Wynn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated on the south coast of England, geographically and strategically, Dover more than played its part in the First World War. It was from its harbor that the many vessels of the Dover Patrol set about preventing German ships from using the English Channel. It was undoubtedly one of the most important Royal Naval units that Britain had during the First World War.Because of its important defensive roll, Dover was identified as a legitimate and relevant target by the German authorities. As a result, German Zeppelin's and Gotha aircraft subjected Dover to 113 aerial attacks, dropping 185 bombs in the process. The first of these raids took place on Christmas Eve, 1914; this was also the first time a German bomb had been dropped on British soil. The last raid was on 24 August 1918, in which twenty adults and three children were killed.The local residents who, for whatever reason, were unable to enlist in the military during the war, but who still felt the desire and obligation to serve their King and country, were able to do so in organizations such as the Dover Volunteer Training Corps. Most towns had similar units, and their members carried out some sterling work on the Home Front.By the end of the war, Dover and its people had sustained through testing and difficult times. Like every community throughout the nation, they had paid a heavy price. They had been as close to the war as it was possible to be, without actually being on the Front Line. Ships had sailed from its harbour to engage the enemy, and wounded soldiers had returned to the same harbour. Its men had gone of to fight in the war and, sadly, 721 of them never came back.
Author : Christine George
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783034130
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Dover and Folkestone During the Great War written by Christine George and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the south coast of Kent in particular the ports of Dover and Folkestone—have been Englands front line, as her enemies have planned invasions and launched attacks from just across the Channel. During the Great War of 1914–1918 these two towns were again vulnerable to enemy action, and they played a vital role in war effort. As this well-researched and highly illustrated book shows, the people of the Channel Ports suffered from bombardment by air and sea. They also played a significant role in the experience of the men who fought in the Great War. For the humble soldier, this stretch of coastline had a personal meaning—it represented Blighty. It might be the last thing the departing Tommy would see of his country and, for a soldier returning wounded or on leave, the White Cliffs on the horizon were his first glimpse of home.
Author : Jacqueline Larson Carmichael
Publisher : Cathedral Grove Books
ISBN 13 : 9780993971709
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Tweets from the Trenches written by Jacqueline Larson Carmichael and published by Cathedral Grove Books. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 tiny true stories from World War I soldiers, female combatants and nurses and the home front. 'Tweets from the Trenches: Little True Stories of Life & Death on the Western Front' brings real voices from diverse backgrounds to life in journal excerpts, poetry and social media. Presented chronologically, with historical images and contemporary photos from the author's journey in her grandfathers' steps. An odyssey into the dugouts of WWI history, 'Tweets from the Trenches' is written in flash documentary creative non-fiction, it encompasses excerpts of journals, letters and memoirs of Allied participants from Prince Edward Island to Yorkshire to South Carolina. With a picture on almost every page, the war unfolds chronologically in stories of valour and heartbreak, on everything from rationed rum and brave homing pigeons to post-traumatic stress disorder. Author Jacqueline Larson Carmichael had two grandfathers on the ground with the Canadian Expeditionary Force throughout the fiery battle on the Western Front. Her curiosity about their experience led to walking on the Western Front herself as part of a research project. As a social media experiment, the seasoned journalist gave Black Jack a Twitter account of his own, posting in his name on Twitter and Facebook - as if he were posting from the trenches of Flanders, Belgium and France. In 2016, on a travel writing research trip, Carmichael traveled to Belgium, France and Germany, and walked portions of the Western Front where both her grandfathers were soldiers for most of the duration of World War I. The long-time journalist, whose work has been seen in The Dallas Morning News, the Toronto Sun, Entrepreneur Magazine, found footnoted flash documentary creative non-fiction a great way to quickly tell little stories pulled from history. Life after battle - including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - is addressed in a series of pieces that include the dramatic example of Canadian Member of Parliament Samuel Simpson Sharpe, whose death induced by the trauma of war was barely acknowledged in Ottawa circles for almost a century.
Author : Peter F. Copeland
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486436950
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Story of World War II written by Peter F. Copeland and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-five scenes from the battle of Britain, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, battle of Stalingrad, Allied invasion of France, dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, the fall of Berlin, and more.
Author : Candace Ward
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048611323X
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book World War One British Poets written by Candace Ward and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVRich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In Flanders Fields," by Lieut. Col. McCrae, more by Hardy, Kipling, many others. /div
Author : Elizabeth A. Sudduth
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035906
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina written by Elizabeth A. Sudduth and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalogue provides a reference tool for the study of one of the great watershed moments in history on both sides of the Atlantic serving historians, researchers, and collectors.
Author : Adrian Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107650860
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
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: What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of propaganda and rumour in fostering patriotism and hatred of the enemy. He shows the importance of the ethic of volunteerism and the rhetoric of sacrifice in debates over where the burdens of war should fall as well as the influence of religious ideas on wartime culture. As the war drew to a climax and tensions about the distribution of sacrifices threatened to tear society apart, he shows how victory and the processes of commemoration helped create a fiction of a society united in grief.
Author : Carlo Demand
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486241074
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Airplanes of the Second World War Coloring Book written by Carlo Demand and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1981 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-six accurate, authentic renderings of fighters, bombers, transports, etc. Includes "Enola Gay," Japanese Zero, British Spitfire, German Komet jet fighter, many others. Captions include detailed coloring information, military role and affiliation of plane, manufacturer, other data. All illustrations copyright-free. 13 planes in color on covers. Publisher's Note.
Author : Turtle Bunbury
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717166147
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)
Download or read book The Glorious Madness – Tales of the Irish and the Great War written by Turtle Bunbury and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From tragic generals to nuns on the run – the extraordinary stories of the Irish on the frontlines of the First World War that you've never heard before Based on first-hand accounts of the First World War, The Glorious Madness is a collection of character portraits and stirring anecdotes that brings to life the hopes, fears and ambitions that defined the generation of Irish men and women lost to the catastrophe of the first great modern war. From the generals and field commanders through to the troopers and nurses on the front lines, from the trenches of the Somme to the beaches of Gallipoli, the Irish served at every turn in the Great War. Popular historian Turtle Bunbury is renowned for uncovering important forgotten stories from our past. Here he reveals many never-before-heard tales of the Irish heroes and heroines whose lives coincided with one of the most brutal conflicts our world has ever known – including nuns, artists, sportsmen, poets, aristocrats, nationalists, nurses, clergymen and film directors. From the dramatic story of the nuns of Ypres and their escape to Ireland to found Kylemore Abbey, to the multiple-escapist who became the one-legged nemesis of Michael Collins, and the five tragic, rugby-loving pals from the same Dublin team massacred at Gallipoli, the stories that Turtle Bunbury unearths about Irish men and women offer a new and timely perspective on Irish participation in the Great War. An important book, by turns poignant, enlightening, whimsical and darkly comic, this is history as it should – free-wheeling and finely tuned to the rhythms of the human heart. Reviews [In The Glorious Madness] Turtle continues the wonderful listening and yarn-spinning he has honed in the Vanishing Ireland series, applying it to veterans of the First World War. The stories he recreates are poignant, whimsical and bleakly funny, bringing back into the light the lives of people who found themselves on the wrong side of history after the struggle for Irish independence. This is my kind of micro-history. John Grenham, The Irish Times A wonderful book packed with great individual stories and pictures which bring the Irish participation in the Great War vividly alive. Sean Farrell, Irish Independent Based on first-hand accounts of the conflict, this collection of character portraits and stirring anecdotes brings to life the hopes, fears and ambitions that defined Ireland's 'lost generation'. Peter Costello, The Irish Catholic Turtle Bunbury's book about the Great War is a great read, a dramatic confection of remarkable stories about remarkable events and individuals slapped together with great dexterity and professionalism. ... This is military history as entertainment on a scale we have not seen since, well, the First World War ... This is one book that can be judged by its cover. Pádraig Yeates, Dublin Review of Books The impressively versatile Turtle Bunbury is known for his sensitively written, well-observed Vanishing Ireland series of books and his appearance on RTE's Genealogy Roadshow. He also toured this year as one of the lecturers in the Great War Roadshow, headed by Myles Dungan. Now, also marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Bunbury marches into what once would have been a no-man's land for historians. There is much to enjoy here. Bunbury has an eye for irony and pathos and a fluid attractive writing style. It's packed with personalities and stories of courage under fire amid truly unimaginable slaughter, of mind-boggling military incompetence and of individuals emotionally afflicted by reports of courage in another cause at home. Emmanuel Kehoe, Sunday Business Post
Author : John Broom
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526749521
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Reported Missing in the Great War written by John Broom and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A snapshot of the misery and pain that [were] suffered by those who not only lost loved ones in the Great War, but were denied a graveside to mourn at.” —Paul Nixon, Army Ancestry Research Of the one million British and Empire military personnel who were killed in action—died of wounds, disease, or injury; or were missing presumed dead during the First World War—over half a million have no known grave. This book traces the history of the searching services that were established to assist families in eliciting definitive news of their missing loved ones. Then, using previously unpublished material, most of it lovingly preserved in family archives for over a century, the lives of eight soldiers, whose families had no known resting place to visit after the conclusion of the war, are recounted. These young men, their lives full of promise, vanished from the face of the earth. The circumstances of their deaths and the painstaking efforts undertaken, both by family members and public and voluntary organizations, to piece together what information could be found are described. The eventual acceptance of the reality of death and the need to properly commemorate the lives of those who would have no marked grave are examined. For three of the eight men, recent discoveries have meant that over a century since they were given up as missing, their remains have been identified and allowed families some degree of closure. “The author skillfully weaves the harrowing experiences of these eight grieving families with the official processes and procedures in place over the years to identify and commemorate the missing.” —Military Historical Society
Author : Dover Publications Inc
Publisher : Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780486996844
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Posters of World Wars I and II written by Dover Publications Inc and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source materials.
Author : Edwin A. Pratt
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book British railways and the great war ; organisation, efforts, difficulties and achievements written by Edwin A. Pratt and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1921-01-01 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan D. Bennett
Publisher : ibooks
ISBN 13 : 1883283566
Total Pages : 1184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Captain Roy Brown, A True Story of the Great War 1914-1918 written by Alan D. Bennett and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story of young men who fought and died for their country. It puts the reader behind the stick of a Sopwith Camel from the pilot's point of view. This is volume 1 and volume 2 combined for the ebook edition. Part One of this comprehensive study covers the life of Captain Arthur Roy Brown, who is well-known as an ace fighter pilot. The basic story is told in Brown’s own words, via his previously unpublished letters home and the entries in his Pilot’s Flying Log Book. Part Two of the book covers Captain Brown’s encounter with Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, in detail. In 1995 Alan Bennett toured the site in France where Captain Brown had attacked the Red Baron on 21 April, 1918. As an experienced pilot of similar aircraft, he had grave doubts as to the truth of some parts of the story. The eventual result was a book written in conjunction with Norman Franks: THE RED BARON’S LAST FLIGHT. After plentiful information from readers, Captain Roy Brown’s family, and Wop May’s son, plus further research in France, a considerably different picture of the entire event and of Roy Brown’s life emerged. This new book, Captain Roy Brown, tells the complete definitive story.
Author : Dover Publications, Inc.
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606600958
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (66 download)
Download or read book World War One Posters written by Dover Publications, Inc. and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the heyday of poster art comes this choice selection of 100 full-page color reproductions accompanied by detailed captions. Magnificent hardcover edition features posters by Lyendecker, Christy, Flagg, Brangwyn, Steinlen, others.
Author : J Firth (B.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Dover and the Great War written by J Firth (B.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robb Robinson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786949911
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Fishermen, the Fishing Industry and the Great War at Sea written by Robb Robinson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the scale and scope of the largely forgotten role played for the Admiralty by 3000 armed fishing vessels, 39,000 fishermen and many coastal communities during the Great War in the unrelenting struggle against mines and U-boats. It is a story largely forgotten in the recent centenary commemorations.
