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Book Synopsis Memories Of Forty-Eight Years’ Service [Illustrated Edition] by : General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
Download or read book Memories Of Forty-Eight Years’ Service [Illustrated Edition] written by General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of a veteran general of the British army who fought through the heat of the South African kopjes and plains to the mud, rain and misery at Ypres. Illustrated with 11 photographs and 27 maps and plans. He fought in many of the Imperial wars in Africa, and was distinguished as one of only five British officers to escape the utter slaughter at the battle of Isandlwana in 1878 during the Zulu War. His enduring modern fame rests on his achievements during the First World War, when he was selected to command one of the two corps of the small British Expeditionary Force in 1914 by Lord Kitchener, firmly believing that Smith-Dorrien would stand up to the commander Sir John French. As the B.E.F. struggled back through Belgium in the face of German forces that greatly outnumbered their own troops in 1914, the strain on the men began to show; they thought that they had outfought the Germans at the battle of Mons, but physically they could not fight and outmarch their foes. Seeing the tired and resentful expressions on his men’s faces, Smith-Dorrien came to a fateful decision: the safe retreat of the footsore B.E.F. could only be carried out if the Germans were slowed down. In defiance of his orders from Sir John French to keep going, he gathered as many of his soldiers as could stand and fought a brilliant rearguard action at Le Cateau, now regarded as pivotal in saving the B.E.F. from piecemeal destruction. Castigated in public and in private military circles for his decision at the time, he accelerated his downfall by his forthright attitude to his superior, Sir John French. After pointing out the flaws in French’s wasteful tactics following a particularly disastrous counterattack at Ypres, Smith-Dorrien had gone too far and was sent home under the excuse of “ill-health”, never to hold a field command again. His memoirs are detailed, exciting and a good balance to the highly inventive writings of Sir John French.
Book Synopsis Memories of Forty-eight Years' Service by : Horace Smith-Dorrien
Download or read book Memories of Forty-eight Years' Service written by Horace Smith-Dorrien and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engelsk biografi over den daværende kendte general Horace Smith-Dorrien, som deltog i Boerkrigene flere gange og senere i Den 1. Verdenskrig. Inden da gjorde han tjeneste i Ægypten og i Afghanistan, og efter krigene blev han guvernør i Gibraltar.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of Forty-eight Years' Service by : Sir Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrien
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Book Synopsis Memories of Forty-eight Years' Service by : Horace Smith-Dorrien
Download or read book Memories of Forty-eight Years' Service written by Horace Smith-Dorrien and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engelsk biografi over den daværende kendte general Horace Smith-Dorrien, som deltog i Boerkrigene flere gange og senere i Den 1. Verdenskrig. Inden da gjorde han tjeneste i Ægypten og i Afghanistan, og efter krigene blev han guvernør i Gibraltar.
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Book Synopsis The British Army and the First World War by : Ian Beckett
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 2017-05-15 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front and throughout the rest of the world as well as the army's social history, pre-war and wartime planning and strategy, the maintenance of discipline and morale and the lasting legacy of the First World War on the army's development. They assess the strengths and weaknesses of the army between 1914 and 1918, engaging with key debates around the adequacy of British generalship and whether or not there was a significant 'learning curve' in terms of the development of operational art during the course of the war. Their findings show how, despite limitations of initiative and innovation amongst the high command, the British army did succeed in developing the effective combined arms warfare necessary for victory in 1918.
Book Synopsis Roberts & Kitchener in South Africa, 1900–1902 by : Rodney Atwood
Download or read book Roberts & Kitchener in South Africa, 1900–1902 written by Rodney Atwood and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Army was shocked by three military defeats in a week in South Africa in late 1899. The commanding General Sir Redvers Buller lost his nerve. Something must be done was the cry across the Empire. Britain sent forth not one, but two military heroes. Field Marshal Lord Roberts and Major General Lord Kitchener spent their first five weeks in South Africa restoring morale, reorganising their forces and deceiving the enemy as to their intentions. In the next four weeks their offensive transformed the war: Kimberley and Ladysmith were relieved from Boer sieges and an enemy force of 4000 under General Cronje was captured on the Modder River. A long and bitter guerrilla war ensured in a terrain ideally suited to fast-moving Boer commandoes. On the dark side, deeds were committed of which no civilised empire priding itself on justice and fair play could be proud. The comradeship-in-arms of Roberts and Kitchener, their differing yet complementary personalities, their strategic and tactical decisions are described and assessed using a wide variety of sources including, personal papers and official correspondence. By these mens resourcefulness the British Army, despite its unpreparedness and poor leadership at many levels, won a remarkable victory in the first of the twentieth century Peoples Wars.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopædia Britannica by : Hugh Chisholm
Download or read book The Encyclopædia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 2350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Victorian Army and the Staff College 1854-1914 by : Brian Bond
Download or read book The Victorian Army and the Staff College 1854-1914 written by Brian Bond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering work in British military history, originally published in 1972, this book is both scholarly and entertaining. Although the book concentrates on a single institution, it illuminates a much wider area of social and intellectual change. For the Army the importance of the change was enormous: in 1854 there was neither a Staff College nor a General Staff, and professional education and training were largely despised by the officers: by 1914 the College could justly be described as ‘a school of thought’ while the officers it had trained were coming to dominate the highest posts in Commands and on the General Staff.
Book Synopsis Witnesses at Isandlwana by : Neil Thornton
Download or read book Witnesses at Isandlwana written by Neil Thornton and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2023-04-16 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 22 January 1879, British forces in Zululand suffered a shocking and unimaginable defeat at the hands of the Zulus resulting in over 1300 dead, including more than 800 regular British soldiers. But the Zulu victory came at a cost, and their losses were very heavy too. Yet, surprisingly, scattered in archives, museums, and private collections around the world, sits many first-hand accounts from those who were there. Inaccessible to most, these primary sources are vital to our understanding of the battle and how it unfolded, and they shed important light on the experiences of those who were there on that fateful day. British soldiers, those from the colonial forces, civilians, and those Zulu warriors who attacked the camp, all left detailed descriptions of the battle. By bringing these sources together, this book–the largest collection of primary accounts ever gathered on the battle – allows the reader to view all sources under one roof, providing a better understanding of the battle, how it played out, and what those involved witnessed on that monumental day in both British and Zulu history.
Book Synopsis More Books by : Boston Public Library
Download or read book More Books written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lord Methuen and the British Army by : Stephen M. Miller
Download or read book Lord Methuen and the British Army written by Stephen M. Miller and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the British Army's transition from colonial conflict to modern war using a traditionally trained late-Victorian officer as the focal point.
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Book Synopsis Black Soldiers of the Queen by : P. S. Thompson
Download or read book Black Soldiers of the Queen written by P. S. Thompson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006-08-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africans who fought alongside the British against the Zulu king
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