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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 : 1442977426
Total Pages : 434 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 434 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:
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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:
Author : Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674545192
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (745 download)
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.
Author : Martin Gilbert
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805083019
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Somme written by Martin Gilbert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gilbert has unearthed fascinating details of the campaign . . . An unforgettable read."—The Philadelphia Inquirer At 7:30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged into no-man's-land, toward the barbed wire and machine guns at the German front lines. In the months that followed, the fifteen-mile-long territory erupted into the epicenter of the Great War, marking a pivotal moment in both the war and military history as tanks first appeared on the battlefield and air war emerged as a devastating and decisive factor in battle. All told, there were more than one million casualties, with 310,000 men dead in just 138 days. In this vivid account of one of history's most destructive battles, distinguished historian Martin Gilbert tracks the experiences of foot soldiers, generals, and everyone in between. With new photographs, journal entries, original maps, and military planning documents, The Somme is the most authoritative and affecting account of this bloody turning point in the Great War.
Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307743233
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 : 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 : Paul Coffey
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517066772
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)
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.
Author : Huntly Gordon
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144816740X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Unreturning Army written by Huntly Gordon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the centenary year of the Great War, names such as Ypres, the Marne, the Somme, Passchendaele are heavy with meaning as settings for the near-destruction of a generation of men. It is this aura of tragedy that makes Huntly Gordon’s memoir, drawn from his letters written from the Front, such a potent one. He was sensitive, intelligent, unpretentious and, as his account reveals, capable of detached and trenchant judgement. As the summer of 1914 drew to a close, it was difficult for a16 year-old schoolboy to realize that the world for which he had been prepared at Clifton College was itself preparing for war. By 1916, he was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery. By June 1917, he was at the Ypres Salient getting his ‘baptism’ at Hell Fire Corner in an intensive artillery duel that formed the prologue to Passchendaele itself. Early in 1918, his battery would fight a series of rearguard actions near Baupaume that would help turn the tide of the massive German Spring offensive. Huntly Gordon has given us an enduring and classic memoir: a poignant and extraordinarily human account of history as it happened.
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.
Author : Alastair H. Fraser
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844682706
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Ghosts on the Somme written by Alastair H. Fraser and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-04-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of the Somme is one of the most famous, and earliest, films of war ever made. The film records the most disastrous day in the history of the British army—1 July 1916—and it had a huge impact when it was shown in Britain during the war. Since then images from it have been repeated so often in books and documentaries that it has profoundly influenced our view of the battle and of the Great War itself. Yet this book is the first in-depth study of this historic film, and it is the first to relate it to the surviving battleground of the Somme.The authors explore the film and its history in fascinating detail. They investigate how much of it was faked and consider how much credit for it should go to Geoffrey Malins and how much to John MacDowell. And they use modern photographs of the locations to give us a telling insight into the landscape of the battle and into the way in which this pioneering film was created.Their analysis of scenes in the film tells us so much about the way the British army operated in June and July 1916—how the troops were dressed and equipped, how they were armed and how their weapons were used. In some cases it is even possible to discover what they were saying. This painstaking exercise in historical reconstruction will be compelling reading for everyone who is interested in the Great War and the Battle of the Somme.
Author : Giles E. M. Eyre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847340054
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Somme Harvest. written by Giles E. M. Eyre and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Buchan
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Pink Sugar written by Anna Buchan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirsty Gilmour is a 30 years old Scottish woman. After spending past 20 years travelling around the world with her glamorous stepmother, Kristy comes back to Scotland. Her stepmother has died and left her with a decent amount of money and the freedom to do what she pleases for the first time in her life. She chooses to buy a cottage in a small Scottish village and she decides to share it with other people as she desires to "live for others". She invites her old aunt to live with her, hires an upper-class landlord and brings three motherless children to live with her for a while.
Author : Anna Buchan
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of Anna Buchan written by Anna Buchan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 2452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Buchan's 'The Complete Works of Anna Buchan' is a collection of works showcasing the talented Scottish author's diverse literary styles. From heartfelt novels to insightful essays, Buchan's writing delves into themes of rural life, family dynamics, and social change. Her prose is known for its lyrical quality and deep empathy towards her characters, making her a beloved figure in Scottish literature. The historical context of Buchan's works provides a window into early 20th-century Scotland, offering a rich tapestry of culture and traditions. Readers will be captivated by Buchan's ability to weave intricate plots with insightful commentary on human nature. Anna Buchan, also known by her pen name O. Douglas, drew inspiration from her own experiences growing up in Scotland and her deep connection to the land. Her writing reflects her passion for her homeland and her keen observations of society, making her a prominent voice in Scottish literature. I highly recommend 'The Complete Works of Anna Buchan' to readers interested in exploring the depths of Scottish literature and experiencing the captivating storytelling of a talented author. Buchan's works offer a poignant reflection on life, love, and the human spirit, making this collection a timeless addition to any literary enthusiast's bookshelf.
Author : John Pateman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387393766
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Orpington and the Great War: 1916 written by John Pateman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the men from Orpington and St Mary Cray District who died during the Great War in 1916.
Author : O. Douglas (Anna Buchan)
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of O. Douglas written by O. Douglas (Anna Buchan) and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 2452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Works of O. Douglas presents a collection of heartwarming and thought-provoking novels, showcasing the quintessential British countryside setting and the complexities of everyday life. Anna Buchan, writing under the pseudonym O. Douglas, captures the essence of human relationships, the struggles of women in the early 20th century, and the importance of community through her beautifully crafted prose and vivid descriptions. Her novels are reminiscent of the works of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell, yet with a unique charm and warmth that is distinctively her own. Anna Buchan, the sister of the renowned author John Buchan, draws inspiration from her own experiences growing up in Scotland, infusing her novels with a deep understanding of human nature and a keen eye for detail. Her personal connection to the landscapes and people of rural Scotland enriches her writing, creating a sense of authenticity and intimacy that resonates with readers. The Complete Works of O. Douglas is a must-read for lovers of classic British literature, offering a delightful escape into a world of charm, wit, and poignant storytelling. Buchan's novels remain timeless treasures that continue to captivate readers with their enduring themes of love, family, and the beauty of everyday life.
