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Author : Mary Christine Ritchie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Major General Sir Geoffrey Twining, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O. written by Mary Christine Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian F. W. Beckett
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783034912
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Haig's Generals written by Ian F. W. Beckett and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of Douglas Haig's army commanders on the Western Front during the First World War. Assesses their careers and characters, looks critically at their performance in command and examines their relationship with their subordinates and with Haig himself. Chapters are devoted to Allenby, Byng, Birdwood, Gough, Horne, Monro, Plumer, Rawlinson and Smith-Dorrien. Offers a fascinating insight into the mentality of these men and into their methods as they sought a solution to the problem of war on the Western Front. A fascinating and original contribution to the history of the war in the trenches.Contributors include: John Bourne, Matthew Hughes, John Lee, William Philpott, Simon Robbins, Gary Sheffield, Peter Simkins, Ian F. W. Beckett, Steven J. Corvi.
Author : Simon Robbins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317171977
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book British Generalship during the Great War written by Simon Robbins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the career of one relatively unknown First World War general, Lord Horne, this book adds to the growing literature that challenges long-held assumptions that the First World War was a senseless bloodbath conducted by unimaginative and incompetent generals. Instead it demonstrates that men like Horne developed new tactics and techniques to deal with the novel problems of trench warfare and in so doing seeks to re-establish the image of the British generals and explain the reasons for the failures of 1915-16 and the successes of 1917-18 and how this remarkable change in performance was achieved by a much maligned group of senior officers. Horne's important career and remarkable character sheds light not only on the major battles in which he was involved; the progress of the war; his relationships with his staff and other senior officers; the novel problems of trench warfare; the assimilation of new weapons, tactics and training methods; and the difficulties posed by the German defences, but also on the attitudes and professionalism of a senior British commander serving on the Western Front. Horne's career thus provides a vehicle for studying the performance of the British Army in the first quarter of the Twentieth Century. It also gives an important insight into the attitudes, ethos and professionalism of the officer corps which led that army to victory on the Western Front, exposing not only its flaws but also its many strengths. This study consequently provides a judgment not only on Horne as a personality, innovator and general of great importance but also on his contemporaries who served with the British Armies in South Africa and France during an era which saw a revolution in military affairs giving birth to a Modern Style of Warfare which still prevails to this day.
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Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Royal Engineers Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Stewart Wallace
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of Canadian Biography written by William Stewart Wallace and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1926 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Don Farr
Publisher : Helion & Company Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781874622994
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Silent General written by Don Farr and published by Helion & Company Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography assesses Henry Horne's relationship with Haig and the Canadian Corps. It also evaluates his contribution to the technical advances of the artillery during the war and describes the battles which he conducted. It attempts to accord to Henry Horne the recognition and credit that he deserves but which has been withheld. Whether or not Henry Sinclair Horne was the 'silent' General he might lay claim to being the 'forgotten' General of the Western Front. His self-effacement in a profession not renowned for shrinking violets undoubtedly made its contribution to his relative anonymity-- he wrote no memoirs nor kept anything more than sketchy diaries.
Author : William Stewart Wallace
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of Canadian Biography written by William Stewart Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nova Scotia Historical Society, Halifax
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Collections written by Nova Scotia Historical Society, Halifax and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nova Scotia Historical Society, Halifax
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society written by Nova Scotia Historical Society, Halifax and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Whitaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord ... written by Joseph Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy D. MacLaren
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773566716
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book African Exploits written by Roy D. MacLaren and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998-03-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Stairs (1863-1892) attended the Royal Military College in Kingston before being commissioned in the British army. Wearied of peacetime soldiering, he volunteered in 1887 to participate in Sir Henry M. Stanley's final trans-African expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the last of "Chinese" Gordon's lieutenants in the Sudan. The expedition emerged almost three years later in Zanzibar, a reluctant Pasha in tow, having left a trail of havoc and suffering behind it. Stairs promptly volunteered for a second expedition in Africa to secure Katanga for King Leopold II of the Belgians as part of the controversial Congo Free State. Stairs was a cruel leader, condoning decapitation and mutilation to attain colonial ends. The expedition succeeded, but at the price of suffering, destruction, and his own life: Stairs died of malaria at the end of the expedition at the age of twenty-eight. Few diaries of the period convey better than Stairs's the nature and course of imperialist expeditions in Africa in the nineteenth century and the psychological and moral corruption caused by absolute power. Stairs's diaries of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition present a candid, personal account of the long and arduous venture, including a very unflattering assessment of Stanley, whom Stairs described as cruel, secretive, and selfish. The Katanga diaries, written as an official company account of the expedition, were intended partly to provide information useful to those intent upon exploiting the African hinterland. African Exploits is the most complete published collection of Stairs's diaries, with a new translation of the Katanga diaries, which no longer exist in the original English. Roy MacLaren's introduction and conclusion set Stairs's adventures in the colonial context of the era and analyse the psychological effects of his experiences.
Author : Great Britain
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The London Gazette written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Canadian Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Burke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Annual Register written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year.
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Total Pages : 1626 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage, and Companionage written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
