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Author : Edward P. F. Lynch
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442977329
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Somme Mud written by Edward P. F. Lynch and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442977248
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Somme Mud written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442977396
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Somme Mud (Volume 2 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442977159
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Somme Mud (Volume 1 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E. P. F. Lynch
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442977116
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Somme Mud (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) written by E. P. F. Lynch and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward P. F. Lynch
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442977132
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Somme Mud written by Edward P. F. Lynch and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970039
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Somme written by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rescuing from history the heroes on the front line whose bravery has been overlooked, and giving voice to their bereaved relatives at home, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore reveals the Battle of the Somme in all its glory and 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.
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429966882
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Somme written by Martin Gilbert and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of our most distinguished historians, an authoritative and vivid account of the devastating World War I battle that claimed more than 300,000 lives At 7:30 am on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged out into no-man's-land toward the barbed wire and machine guns at the German front lines. By the end of this first day of the Allied attack, the British army alone would lose 20,000 men; in the coming months, the fifteen-mile-long territory along the river would erupt into the epicenter of the Great War. The Somme would mark a turning point in both the war and military history, as soldiers saw the first appearance of tanks on the battlefield, the emergence of the air war as a devastating and decisive factor in battle, and more than one million casualties (among them a young Adolf Hitler, who took a fragment in the leg). In just 138 days, 310,000 men died. In this vivid, deeply researched account of one history's most destructive battles, historian Martin Gilbert tracks the Battle of the Somme through the experiences of footsoldiers (known to the British as the PBI, for Poor Bloody Infantry), generals, and everyone in between. Interwoven with photographs, journal entries, original maps, and documents from every stage and level of planning, The Somme is the most authoritative and affecting account of this bloody turning point in the Great War.
Author : E. P. F. Lynch
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442977264
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Somme Mud written by E. P. F. Lynch and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse it, but we can't escape it, not even by dying.' SOMME MUD tells of the devastating experiences of Edward Lynch, a young Australian private (18 when he enlisted) during the First World War when he served with the 45th battalion of the Australian Infantry Forces on the Western Front at the Somme, which saw the most bloody and costly fighting of the war. In just eight weeks, there were 23,000 Australian casualties. The original edition of twenty chapters, was written in pencil in twenty school exercise books in 1921, probably to help exorcise the horrendous experiences Private Lynch had witnessed during his three years at war from mid-1916 until his repatriation home in mid-1919. Lynch had been wounded three times, once seriously and spent over six months in hospital in England. Published here for the first time, and to the great excitement of historians at the War Memorial SOMME MUD is a precious find, a discovered treasure that vividly captures the magnitude of war through the day-to-day experiences of an ordinary infantryman. From his first day setting sail for France as the band played 'Boys of the Dardanelles' and the crowd proudly waved their fresh-faced boys off, to the harsh reality of the trenches of France and its pale-faced weary men, Lynch captures the essence and contradictions of war. SOMME MUD is Australia's version of All Quiet on the Western Front. Told with dignity, candour and surprising wit, it is a testament to the power of the human spirit, a moving true story of humanity and friendship. It will cause a sensation when it is published.
Author : Will Davies
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 186471574X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Somme Mud Young Readers' Edition written by Will Davies and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully presented young readers’ edition of the bestselling memoir of a young soldier on the First World War’s Western Front. 'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse it, but we can't escape it, not even by dying.' Private Edward Lynch was just 18 when he enlisted in the army. When he returned to Australia almost three years later, he wrote Somme Mud, a vivid account of the horrific realities of trench warfare from an ordinary infantryman’s point of view: the traumatised soldiers and ravaged landscapes, the curious mixture of hatred, empathy and admiration for the equally naive enemy soldiers, the disillusionment and the camaraderie. Lynch’s candour and down-to-earth wit make Somme Mud engaging for any reader, while archival photographs, a full glossary and editor Will Davies’ explanatory chapter introductions make this edition an illuminating text for students. As well as a memoir of one man’s experience of war, Somme Mud is an evocative record of the language and attitudes of early twentieth century Australia.
Author : Fred Arthur McKenzie
Publisher : London : Hodder and Stoughton ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Through the Hindenburg Line written by Fred Arthur McKenzie and published by London : Hodder and Stoughton ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton. This book was released on 1918 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Corrigan
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780225547
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Mud, Blood and Poppycock written by Gordon Corrigan and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of how Britain won the First World War. The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up. Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young historians on the make. Gordon Corrigan's brilliant, witty history reveals how out of touch we have become with the soldiers of 1914-18. They simply would not recognize the way their generation is depicted on TV or in Pat Barker's novels. Laced with dry humour, this will overturn everything you thought you knew about Britain and the First World War. Gordon Corrigan reveals how the British embraced technology, and developed the weapons and tactics to break through the enemy trenches.
Author : WILL. DAVIES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525220531
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (25 download)
Download or read book SOMME MUD written by WILL. DAVIES and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307742970
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
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.
Author : Tim Saunders
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844150186
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book West Country Regiments on the Somme written by Tim Saunders and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous works have concentrated on the 'Pal' in Britain's northern towns and cities. This book seeks to explore the little appreciated part in the Battle of the Somme played by the Regular and Volunteer Service battalions of two small West Country regiments; the Devonshire Regiment and the Dorset Regiment. These two regiments had five battalions in action on the first day of the battle and were represented in most of the significant attacks during the three and half months of the 1916. The reader will be able to form a clear picture of the battle's development as a whole through the eyes of Westcountry soldiers who fought on the Somme.
Author : Bob Paterson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526764474
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Somme 1916—The Butte de Warlencourt written by Bob Paterson and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the popular attention on the Battle of the Somme 1916 is focussed on the first day of the infantry assault, 1st July, when such high hopes were dashed and British casualties ran into the tens of thousands. However, the Somme was a battle that lasted over twenty weeks, running well into the autumn. This book is concerned with fighting south of the famous Albert-Bapaume road from mid September to the official end of the battle. The coverage includes Martinpuich, the hamlet of Eaucourt l'Abbaye, Le Sars and that strange topographical feature the Butte de Warlencourt. The action starts with the major British attack of 15 September 1916, which enjoyed some success and which included the first use of tanks. The book takes up the story from the fall of Martinpuich and follows the British as they inched their way north eastwards to Le Sars and Eaucourt l'Abbaye. This was gruelling warfare, fought in fast deteriorating weather conditions and in the face of ever increasing volumes of artillery fire: the mud was almost as much the enemy of both sides as the weight of lead and iron fired at them. The Butte de Warlencourt has come to have an almost iconic status. This rather insignificant hillock, almost certainly a burial mound of the Romano-Gallic period, marks the point at which the battle officially ceased along the Albert-Bapaume road. For days before the battle ended both sides tussled to secure its possession, numerous limited attacks taking place over devastated, utterly water logged and featureless ground. Indeed it was the 'emptiness' of the area that made the Butte of such significance, a fearsome, solitary landmark standing out against a backdrop of desolation. It was the focus of the fighting in the area for almost six weeks. As well as the customary walks, essential to an understanding of the confused fighting in the area, there is a long car tour, covering many less visited parts of the battlefield to the east and north of the Butte and which places it firmly in the context of the battle. Charles Carrington, who wrote one of the classic memoirs of the war, was not alone amongst those who fought here when he commented that, 'the Butte de Warlencourt terrified us'.
Author : Martin Pegler
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178159709X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Attack on the Somme written by Martin Pegler and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of the Somme is fixed in the country's collective memory as a disaster—probably the bloodiest episode in the catalogue of futile offensives launched by the British on the Western Front. Over five months of desperate fighting in 1916 the British wrestled with the Germans for control of a narrow strip of innocuous French countryside. When the fighting petered out the British had barely pushed back the Germans from their original positions for a combined casualty figure of over a million men. But after 80 years this notorious episode in western military history deserves to be reassessed.Previously unpublished eyewitness accounts are used to give a fascinating first-hand view of the immediate experience of the fighting. As Martin Pegler shows, a revision in our assessment of the Somme, in particular of the tactics and the weaponry employed by the combatants, is overdue, and he challenges the traditional assumptions about the course of the battle and its future impact on the development of warfare.
