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Author : RUGBY SCHOOL.
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Memorials of Rugbeians who Fell in the Great War. [With Portraits.]. written by RUGBY SCHOOL. and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rugby School
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Memorials of Rugbeians who Fell in the Great War written by Rugby School and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rugby School
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memorials of Rugbeians who Fell in the Great War written by Rugby School and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rugby School
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memorials of Rugbeians who Fell in the Great War written by Rugby School and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rugby School
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Memorials of Rugbeians who Fell in the Great War written by Rugby School and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel J. McLean
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526742861
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Rugbeians in the Great War written by Daniel J. McLean and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The courage and sacrifices during World War I of the students who attended the influential boarding school best known for the sport that bears its name. Few schools can claim to have had such a deep and diverse effect on British history as Rugby. Its influence on the sporting field is well-known, but this book examines the roles played by Rugbeians in many different spheres during the Great War. Politicians and academics, Olympians and artists all left their ordinary lives to fight for their country and it was their school which bound them together. Some such as Ernest Swinton, inventor of the tank, and Maurice Hankey, Cabinet Secretary, had direct influence on the shaping of the conflict, whereas others such as Duncan Mackinnon (Olympic gold medal-winning rower) and the Cawley brothers (both Members of Parliament) are remembered primarily for their pre-war achievements. Until now there has never been a volume which traces the extent of Rugby’s influence, but this book showcases the extraordinary range of individuals from the school who left their mark on the war and the world at large. “I would say that the author has gone to great concentration and written an excellent and very detailed book. There is no other thing to do but to recommend this book, a really excellent book.” —The UK Historian
Author : Rugby School
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Memorials of Rugbeins who Fell in the Great War written by Rugby School and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Walter
Publisher : Greenhill Books
ISBN 13 : 178438187X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Snipers at War written by John Walter and published by Greenhill Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snipers at War is a detailed history and analysis of the equipment, tactics and personalities of the ‘sniping world’, from the pursuit of accuracy to the latest electronic aids to observation and ranging. Technology and marksmanship from the Crimean War to the present day is examined in detail. The role of the sniper was largely ignored until the Winter War of 1939-40 between Finland and the USSR showed what could be achieved by specialist marksmen: Finn Simo Häyhä amassed 505 kills in less than a hundred days, a lesson learned by the Red Army to its cost. By the Germans invasion of 1941 the Russians were prepared: when the war ended, in addition to men such as Vasiliy Zaytsev, a Stalingrad hero with 242 accredited kills, the USSR had trained more than 2000 women as snipers. After 1945, the sniper’s reputation declined again. However, the Vietnam War, seemingly unending Middle Eastern conflict, internal strife in Sri Lanka, and ever-present urban threats have given new impetus not only to sniping but also to the development of new and more effective weaponry.
Author : Dr Peter Liddle
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848847777
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book 1914 written by Dr Peter Liddle and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening battles on the Western Front marked a watershed in military history. A dramatic, almost Napoleonic war of movement quickly gave way to static, attritional warfare in which modern weaponry had forced the combatants to take to the earth. Some of the last cavalry charges took place in the same theatre in which armoured cars, motorcycles and aeroplanes were beginning to make their presence felt.??These dramatic developments were recorded in graphic detail by soldiers who were eyewitnesses to them. There is a freshness and immediacy to their accounts which Matthew Richardson exploits in this thoroughgoing reassessment of the 1914 campaign. ??His vivid narrative emphasises the perspective of the private soldiers and the junior officers of the British Army, the men at the sharp end of the fighting.??This title has full colour plates containing over 100 illustrations.??Britain At War Magazine Book of the Month February 2014
Author : Matthew Richardson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399051563
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book With the British Cavalry in 1914 written by Matthew Richardson and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening months of the First World War were the golden sunset for the horsed regiments of the British army. Whether they were Lancers, Hussars or Dragoons, their names were redolent of glory and grandeur. Trained for shock tactics as well as scouting and reconnaissance, several times in 1914 they clashed dramatically with their German counterparts on the battlefields of France. Yet at the same time, the role of the cavalry was shifting inexorably away from these romantic charges, with trumpets, gleaming lances and swirling sabres. In the new warfare of the Twentieth Century, the true value of these regiments was as an intensively trained, highly mobile reserve. Despite their misgivings about the role, the Regular cavalry (latterly with Yeomanry alongside them) were also a highly effective force when fighting on foot. Able to arrive quickly at trouble spots, they were equally skilled with the rifle, and on more than one occasion in 1914 they were able to retrieve a critical situation.
Author : Gerald Gliddon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752483773
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book VCs Cambrai 1917 written by Gerald Gliddon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the careers of forty-three men, this volume tells the story of the Battle of Cambrai, famous for being the first occasion when tanks were used en masse in battle. Its first day was so successful that church bells in Britain were rung in anticipation of a great victory. A tank crewman numbers among the recipients of the VC.Containing biographies of a broad cross-section of men from Britain and the Dominions including Canada, Australia, New Zealand and even the Ukraine. It includes a sapper, a former miner, who chose to stay with his seriously wounded colleague underground and die with him, rather than obey an order to leave him and save his own life; a maverick lieutenant-colonel who was relieved of his command and a padre who worked tirelessly over a period of three nights bringing at least twenty-five men to safety from No Man’s Land, who otherwise would have been left to die.
Author : Gerald Gliddon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752487469
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book VCS Somme 1916 written by Gerald Gliddon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of the Somme, which lasted from 1 July to 18 November 1916, is remembered as one of the most horrific and tragic battles of the First World War. On the first day alone nearly 19,000 British troops were killed – the greatest one-day loss in the history of the British Army. By November the death toll from the armies of Britain, France and Germany had risen to over a million. This book tells the stories of fifty-one soldiers from the Commonwealth and Empire armies whose bravery on the battlefield was rewarded by the Victoria Cross, the highest military honour – men like Private Billy McFadzean, who was blown up by two grenades which he smothered in order to save the lives of his comrades, and Private ‘Todger’ Jones, who single-handedly rounded up 102 German soldiers. Not only do we learn of heroic endeavours of these men at the height of battle, but we also read of their lives before 1914, ranging from the backstreets of Glasgow to a country house in Cheshire, and of what life was like after the war for the thirty-three survivors.
Author : Christopher Morley
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Shandygaff written by Christopher Morley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shandygaff is about the life and adventures of newspaper editor Kenneth Stockton. Excerpt: "SHANDYGAFF: a very refreshing drink, being a mixture of bitter ale or beer and ginger-beer, commonly drunk by the lower classes in England, and by strolling tinkers, low church parsons, newspaper men, journalists, and prizefighters. Said to have been invented by Henry VIII as a solace for his matrimonial difficulties. It is believed that a continual bibbing of shandygaff saps the will, the nerves, the resolution, and the finer faculties, but some will abide no other tipple."
Author : Raymond Wilson Chambers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book This Book is a Record of Those Members of University College London & of University College Hospital and Medical School who Were Killed Or who Died on Service, 1914-1919 written by Raymond Wilson Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Thornton
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Led by Lions written by Neil Thornton and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and fast-paced narrative of over 100 gallant officers who died during the First World WarPacked with incredible stories of individual heroism and sacrificeAssiduously researched, rich in detail and lavishly illustratedForeword by John Bercow, Speaker of the House, and introduction by The Hon. Ian R. K. Paisley MP, Freeman City of London Led by Lions: MPs and Sons Who Fell in the First World War tells the story of over 100 men who went to war and did not return. Many MPs fought in the war and in some instances, they pulled strings to get there. Casualties amongst them were high, but the loss of their sons outweighed their own sacrifice. In this book, Neil Thornton dispels the popular belief that the country’s politicians sat in safety while callously sending the nation’s youth to their deaths. Their own sacrifices, together with those of their sons, are described here in poignant detail, including such names as Tom Kettle, William Gladstone and Raymond Asquith. Others such as Valentine Fleming – father of James Bond author Ian Fleming – and Thomas Agar-Robartes feature alongside them. Recommended for the Victoria Cross for the rescue of casualties under heavy fire, Agar-Robartes’ act would cost him his life, but he would earn the respect of every man under his command. This lavishly illustrated book is a tribute to those MPs and their sons who went to war – never to return.
Author : Christopher Morley
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Essays written by Christopher Morley and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran. This book was released on 1927 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Stokes
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Dear and Noble Boy written by Louis Stokes and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Stokes was a pupil at Rugby School between 1911 and 1915 before he met his death on the Somme in November 1916. His letters, published in this volume, offer an insight into this typical transition from cloistered public school to the horrors of trench warfare on the Western Front.
