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Pals on the Somme 1916

Author : Roni Wilkinson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783409460
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Pals on the Somme 1916 written by Roni Wilkinson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pals on the Somme covers the history of all the Pals Battalions who fought on the Somme during the First World War. The book looks at the events which led to the war and how the Pals phenomenon was born.It considers the attitude and social conditions in Britain at the time. It covers the training and equipping of the Battalions, the preparations for the Big Push, 1st July 1916, and going over the top, and how each battalion fared, failed or succeeded. It looks at how they Battalions had to undergo a change after the 1st July, due to the heavy casualties, and the final victory in 1918, and how the battalions were eventually amalgamated. The final chapter examines how each area coped in the aftermath of losing their men in the three year slaughter. It covers the organizations and visits to the Battlefields as they are today.

Pals on the Somme 1916

Author : Roni Wilkinson
Publisher : Pen & Sword Books
ISBN 13 : 9781844153930
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Pals on the Somme 1916 written by Roni Wilkinson and published by Pen & Sword Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pals on the Somme covers the history of all the Pals Battalions who fought on the Somme during the First World War. The book looks at the events which led to the war and how the 'Pals' phenomenon was born. It considers the attitude and social conditions in Britain at the time. It covers the training and equipping of the Battalions, the preparations for the 'Big Push', 1st July 1916, and going over the top, and how each battalion fared, failed or succeeded. It looks at how they Battalions had to undergo a change after the 1st July, due to the heavy casualties, and the final victory in 1918, and how the battalions were eventually amalgamated. The final chapter examines how each area coped in the aftermath of losing their men in the three year slaughter. It covers the organizations and visits to the Battlefields as they are today.

The Somme 1916

Author : Michael Stedman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783409746
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book The Somme 1916 written by Michael Stedman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salford was late in recruiting for its Pals battalions, with many of its men already joining Territorial units and a new Pals battalion in Manchester. Yet within a year it had raised four Pals battalions and a reserve battalion. Raised mainly from Lancashire's most notorious slums, the men trained together in Wales, North East England, and on Salisbury Plain, they had great expectations of success. On the 1st of July 1916, the Somme offensive was launched and in the very epicenter of that cauldron the first three of Salford's battalions were thrown at the massive defenses of Thiepval - the men were decimated, Salford was shattered. Michael Stedman records the impact of the war from the start on Salford and follows the difficulties and triumphs. Whether the actions small or great the author writes graphically about them all. Unusual photographs and a variety of sources make this both a readable and a scholarly account.

Liverpool Pals

Author : Graham Maddocks
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473816017
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Liverpool Pals written by Graham Maddocks and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-01-30 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liverpool Pals, is a record of duty, courage and endeavour of a group of men who, before war broke out in 1914, were the backbone of Liverpool's commerce. Fired with patriotism, over 4,000 of these businessmen volunteered in 1914 and were formed into the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th (Service) Battalions of the King's (Liverpool Regiment); they were the first of all the Pals battalions to be raised, and they were the last to be stood down. It is commonly held that the North of England's Pals battalions were wiped out on the 1st July, 1916, certainly this befell a number of units, but the Liverpool Pals took all their objectives on that day. From then on they fought all through the Somme Battle, The Battle of Arras and the muddy hell of Passchendaele in 1917, and the desperate defence against the German offensive of March 1918.

Accrington's Pals

Author : Andrew C. Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848844698
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Accrington's Pals written by Andrew C. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Battle of the Marne was one of the most pivotal battles in history. Fought outside Paris in September 1914, it turned the tide of the German invasion of France, and robbed Kaiser Wilhelm II of his best chance of winning the First World War.

The First Day on the Somme

Author : Martin Middlebrook
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141926945
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The First Day on the Somme written by Martin Middlebrook and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian 'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways' On 1 July 1916, a continous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns. By the end of the day there were more than 60,000 British casualties - a third of them fatal. Martin Middlebrook's now-classic account of the blackest day in the history of the British army draws on official sources from the time, and on the words of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.

Somme 1916

Author : Paul Kendall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 151070874X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Somme 1916 written by Paul Kendall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really happened on the first day of the Somme? Much controversy has surrounded the Somme offensive relating to its justification and its impact upon the course of the war. General Sir Douglas Haig's policies have been the subject of considerable debate about whether the heavy losses sustained were worth the small gains that were achieved which appeared to have little strategic value. That was certainly the case on many sectors on 1 July 1916, where British soldiers were unable to cross No Man's Land and failed to reach, or penetrate into, the German trenches. In other sectors, however, breaches were made in the German lines culminating in the capture that day of Leipzig Redoubt, Mametz and Montauban. This book aims to highlight the failures and successes on that day and for the first time evaluate those factors that caused some divisions to succeed in capturing their objectives whilst others failed. An important new study, this book is certain to answer these questions as well as challenging the many myths and misconceptions surrounding the battle that have been propagated for the last 100 years. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

The Oxford History of the British Army

Author : David G. Chandler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192853333
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of the British Army written by David G. Chandler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From longbow, pike, and musket to Challenger tanks, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Gulf Campaign, from the Duke of Marlborough to Field Marshal Montgomery, this stimulating and informative book recounts the history of the British army from its medieval antecedents to the present day. Commanders, campaigns, battles, organization, and weaponry are all covered in detail within the wider context of the social, economic, and political environment in which armies exist and fight, making this the definitive one-volume history of the British army for specialists and non-specialists alike. Book jacket.

The Flowers of the Forest

Author : Trevor Royle
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857901257
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Flowers of the Forest written by Trevor Royle and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition, Scots were a hugely important source of manpower for the colonies. Yet after the war, Scotland became an industrial and financial backwater. Emigration increased as morale slumped in the face of economic stagnation and decline. The country had paid a disproportionately high price in casualties, a result of huge numbers of volunteers and the use of Scottish battalions as shock troops in the fighting on the Western Front and Gallipoli - young men whom the novelist Ian Hay called 'the vanished generation'. In this book, Trevor Royle provides the first full account of how the war changed Scotland irrevocably by exploring a wide range of themes - the overwhelming response to the call for volunteers; the performance of Scottish military formations in 1915 and 1916; the militarization of the Scottish homeland; the resistance to war in Glasgow and the west of Scotland; and the boom in the heavy industries and the strengthening of women's role in society following on from wartime employment.

Somme

Author : Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970039
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Somme written by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of battles as the irreducible building blocks of war demands a single verdict of each campaign—victory, defeat, stalemate. But this kind of accounting leaves no room to record the nuances and twists of actual conflict. In Somme: Into the Breach, the noted military historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore shows that by turning our focus to stories of the front line—to acts of heroism and moments of both terror and triumph—we can counter, and even change, familiar narratives. Planned as a decisive strike but fought as a bloody battle of attrition, the Battle of the Somme claimed over a million dead or wounded in months of fighting that have long epitomized the tragedy and folly of World War I. Yet by focusing on the first-hand experiences and personal stories of both Allied and enemy soldiers, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore defies the customary framing of incompetent generals and senseless slaughter. In its place, eyewitness accounts relive scenes of extraordinary courage and sacrifice, as soldiers ordered “over the top” ventured into No Man’s Land and enemy trenches, where they met a hail of machine-gun fire, thickets of barbed wire, and exploding shells. Rescuing from history the many forgotten heroes whose bravery has been overlooked, and giving voice to their bereaved relatives at home, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore reveals the Somme campaign in all its glory as well as its misery, helping us to realize that there are many meaningful ways to define a battle when seen through the eyes of those who lived it.

The Missing of the Somme

Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307742970
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Missing of the Somme written by Geoff Dyer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs and film, poetry and prose determined—sometimes in advance of the events described—the way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality and insight, Dyer untangles and reconstructs the network of myth and memory that illuminates our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.

The Buttonmaker’s Daughter

Author : Merryn Allingham
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008193843
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Buttonmaker’s Daughter written by Merryn Allingham and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May, 1914. Nestled in Sussex, the Summerhayes mansion seems the perfect country idyll. But with a long-running feud in the Summers family and tensions in Europe deepening, Summerhayes’ peaceful days are numbered.

Somme 1916

Author : Paul Kendall
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848329083
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Somme 1916 written by Paul Kendall and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much controversy has surrounded the Somme offensive relating to its justification and its impact upon the course of the war. General Sir Douglas Haig's policies have been the subject of considerable debate about whether the heavy losses sustained were worth the small gains that were achieved which appeared to have little strategic value. rnrnThat was certainly the case on many sectors on 1 July 1916, where British soldiers were unable to cross No Man's Land and failed to reach, or penetrate into, the German trenches. In other sectors, however, breaches were made in the German lines culminating in the capture that day of Leipzig Redoubt, Mametz and Montauban. rnrnThis book aims to highlight the failures and successes on that day and for the first time evaluate those factors that caused some divisions to succeed in capturing their objectives whilst others failed. An important new study, this book is certain to answer these questions as well as challenging the many myths and misconceptions surrounding the battle that have been propagated for the last 100 years.

Shadows of the Somme

Author : Paul Coffey
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517066772
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Shadows of the Somme written by Paul Coffey and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He looked up at the sky, crystal blue and cloudless ... he closed his eyes, put the whistle to his lips and blew.' The first of July 1916 and in the French countryside tens of thousands of doomed British soldiers are being killed and wounded as the bloody Battle of the Somme begins. Captain Edward Harris, vainly encouraging his men over the top and headlong into the murderous German machine guns, is badly wounded. Crawling to a shell hole for cover, he lies helpless as the carnage continues around him. October 2015 and Tom Harris has no interest in the First World War. For him it's a conflict from another age. But during a visit to the battlefields he becomes fascinated by a headstone in a British war cemetery showing his namesake. Desperate to learn more Tom begins to delve into the past where he discovers ordinary men consumed by extraordinary times. And in doing so he unearths a remarkable and moving story of loss, despair, hope and redemption.

Carrying On-after the First Hundred Thousand

Author : Ian Hay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Carrying On-after the First Hundred Thousand written by Ian Hay and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first hundred thousand closed with the battle of Loos. The present narrative follows certain friends of ours from the scene of that .. experience, through a winter campaign in the neighbourhood of Ypres and Ploegsteert, to ... the battle of the Somme."--Author's note.

Walking the Somme

Author : Paul Reed
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1848844735
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Walking the Somme written by Paul Reed and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Paul Reed's classic book Walking the Somme is an essential traveling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first published over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetime's research into the battle and the landscape over which it was fought. From Gommecourt, Serre, Beaumont-Hamel and Thiepval to Montauban, High Wood, Delville Wood and Flers, he guides the walker across the major sites associated with the fighting. These are now features of the peaceful Somme countryside. In total there are 16 walks, including a new one tracing the operations around Mametz Wood, and all the original walks have been fully revised and brought up to date. Walking the Somme brings the visitor not only to the places where the armies clashed but to the landscape of monuments, cemeteries and villages that make the Somme battlefield so moving to explore.

Bradford Pals

Author : David Raw
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473812631
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Bradford Pals written by David Raw and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of the First World War two volunteer Pals Battalions were raised in Bradford and this is their remarkable story. David Raw's account is based on memoirs, letters, diaries, contemporary newspaper reports, official records and archives, and it is illustrated with many maps and previously unpublished photographs. He recaptures the heroism and stoical humour displayed by the Bradford Pals in the face of often terrible experiences, but he also recounts the tragedy, pain, suffering and grief that was the dark side of war.