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Surviving Trench Warfare

Author : Bill Rawling
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144262020X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Trench Warfare written by Bill Rawling and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horrors of the First World War were the product of a new and unprecedented type of industrial warfare. To survive and win demanded not just new technology but the techniques to use it effectively. In Surviving Trench Warfare, Bill Rawling takes a close look at how technology and tactics came together in the Canadian Corps. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from interviews to staff reports, Rawling describes the range of new weapons that the Canadians adopted, including tanks, trench mortars, and poison gas, making it clear that the decisive factor in the war was not the new technology itself but how the Canadians responded to it. Only through intensive training, specialization, and close coordination between infantry and artillery could the Canadians overcome the deadly trinity of machine-guns, barbed wire, and artillery. Surviving Trench Warfare offers a whole new understanding of the First World War, replacing the image of a static trench war with one in which soldiers actively struggled for control over their weapons and their environment, and achieved it. Released to coincide with the centenary of the First World War, this edition includes a new introduction and afterword reflecting the latest scholarship on the conduct of the war.

Surviving Trench Warfare [sound Recording] : Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918

Author : Bill Rawling
Publisher : Brantford : WRMS, 1993. (Peterborough : Ontario Audio Library Service)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Trench Warfare [sound Recording] : Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918 written by Bill Rawling and published by Brantford : WRMS, 1993. (Peterborough : Ontario Audio Library Service). This book was released on 1993 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Surviving Trench Warfare

Author : Bill Rawling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781442620193
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Trench Warfare written by Bill Rawling and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trench Warfare

Author : Sue Bradford Edwards
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1680771019
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Trench Warfare written by Sue Bradford Edwards and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the conditions, designs, soldiers, diseases, and warfare tactics of World War I's trenches. Compelling narrative text and well-chosen historical photographs and primary sources make this book perfect for report writing. Features include a glossary, a selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Enduring the Great War

Author : Alexander Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139867253
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Enduring the Great War written by Alexander Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay natural human resilience. Drawing widely on contemporary letters and diaries of British and German soldiers, psychiatric reports and official documentation, and interpreting these sources with modern psychological research, this unique account provides fresh insights into the soldiers' fears, motivations and coping mechanisms. It explains why the British outlasted their opponents by examining and comparing the motives for fighting, the effectiveness with which armies and societies supported men and the combatants' morale throughout the conflict on both sides. Finally it challenges the consensus on the war's end, arguing that not a 'covert strike' but rather an 'ordered surrender' led by junior officers brought about Germany's defeat in 1918.

Eye-Deep in Hell

Author : John Ellis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801839474
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Eye-Deep in Hell written by John Ellis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1989-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed reconstruction of life and death in the trenches of World War I, describing the construction and physical and spiritual environment of the trenches and the soldiers' daily routine.

World War I Trench Warfare Pamphlets Combined: How to Survive in the Trenches; Killing at Close Quarters; Barbed Wire Training, Tactics and Defences; Grenades and Explosives; and Concertina Wire

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Publisher : Jeffrey Frank Jones
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book World War I Trench Warfare Pamphlets Combined: How to Survive in the Trenches; Killing at Close Quarters; Barbed Wire Training, Tactics and Defences; Grenades and Explosives; and Concertina Wire written by and published by Jeffrey Frank Jones. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All these handy pamphlets were produced by the Canadian government prior to 1919: Contents: 1. How to survive in the trenches This booklet, written with the benefit of three years of experience with trench warfare, covered everything from gas discipline to rum rations. 2. Killing at close quarters This training manual stressed that effective bayonet fighting required "Good Direction, Strength and Quickness, during a state of wild excitement and probably physical exhaustion." 3. Constructing barbed wire defences This manual, used for training purposes by the 215th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, was based on two years' worth of hard experience in defending captured positions. 4. "You have in explosives a good servant" In this book, Sergeant Coleman of the Royal Canadian Regiment sought to augment the short time given to grenade training by providing practical hints on handling, arming, throwing, and making various kinds of bombs for use in trench warfare. 5. Grenades in trench warfare One lesson of trench warfare was that "bombing" (or using hand grenades) was much more important in capturing and clearing enemy trenches than had been imagined before the war. As a result, training manuals like this one by James Ferris, who joined the 63rd Battalion in Edmonton in July 1915, were published as a way to pass on new tactical knowledge. 6. Some Notes on the Minor Tactics of Trench Warfare A Brigade Major of the Corps of Royal Engineers presents a thorough overview of trench warfare tactics, emphasizing the cooperation between infantry and engineers. 7. Training in barbed wire Given the importance of barbed wire during the First World War, it came as no surprise that in the Second World War there would be considerable emphasis on instructing soldiers in its use.

Surviving the Great War

Author : Aaron Pegram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108486193
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Surviving the Great War written by Aaron Pegram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving the Great War is the first detailed analysis of Australians in German captivity in WW1. By placing the hardships of prisoners of war in a broader social and military content, this book adds a new dimension to the national wartime experience and challenges popular representations of Australia's involvement in the First World War.

Mud, Blood and Poppycock

Author : Gordon Corrigan
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780225547
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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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.

The Last Fighting Tommy

Author : Harry Patch
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747593361
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Last Fighting Tommy written by Harry Patch and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary and moving story of a man, now aged 108, whose life has spanned six monarchs and twenty Prime Ministers .

The Secret History of Soldiers

Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735235279
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of Soldiers written by Tim Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been thousands of books on the Great War, but most have focused on commanders, battles, strategy, and tactics. Less attention has been paid to the daily lives of the combatants, how they endured the unimaginable conditions of industrial warfare: the rain of shells, bullets, and chemical agents. In The Secret History of Soldiers, Tim Cook, Canada's foremost military historian, examines how those who survived trench warfare on the Western Front found entertainment, solace, relief, and distraction from the relentless slaughter. These tales come from the soldiers themselves, mined from the letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral accounts of more than five hundred combatants. Rare examples of trench art, postcards, and even song sheets offer insight into a hidden society that was often irreverent, raunchy, and anti-authoritarian. Believing in supernatural stories was another way soldiers shielded themselves from the horror. While novels and poetry often depict the soldiers of the Great War as mere victims, this new history shows how the soldiers pushed back against the grim war, refusing to be broken in the mincing machine of the Western Front. The violence of war is always present, but Cook reveals the gallows humour the soldiers employed to get through it. Over the years, both writers and historians have overlooked this aspect of the men's lives. The fighting at the front was devastating, but behind the battle lines, another layer of life existed, one that included songs, skits, art, and soldier-produced newspapers. With his trademark narrative abilities and an unerring eye for the telling human detail, Cook has created another landmark history of Canadian military life as he reveals the secrets of how soldiers survived the carnage of the Western Front.

Trench Warfare, 1914-1918

Author : Tony Ashworth
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330480680
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Trench Warfare, 1914-1918 written by Tony Ashworth and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shock and slaugter of the battlefields of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendale is well documented. However, during the smaller battles soldiers could, and often did, make personal decisions. From these evolved a culture of live and let live, which constrained that of kill and be killed.

Conspiring with the Enemy

Author : Yvonne Chiu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544170
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Conspiring with the Enemy written by Yvonne Chiu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the strong influence of just war theory in military law and practice, warfare is commonly considered devoid of morality. Yet even in the most horrific of human activities, there is frequent communication and cooperation between enemies. One remarkable example is the Christmas truce—unofficial ceasefires between German and English trenches in December 1914 in which soldiers even mingled in No Man’s Land. In Conspiring with the Enemy, Yvonne Chiu offers a new understanding of why and how enemies work together to constrain violence in warfare. Chiu argues that what she calls an ethic of cooperation is found in modern warfare to such an extent that it is often taken for granted. The importance of cooperation becomes especially clear when wartime ethics reach a gray area: To whom should the laws of war apply? Who qualifies as a combatant? Should guerrillas or terrorists receive protections? Fundamentally, Chiu shows, the norms of war rely on consensus on the existence and content of the laws of war. In a wide-ranging consideration of pivotal instances of cooperation, Chiu examines weapons bans, treatment of prisoners of war, and the Geneva Conventions, as well as the tensions between the ethic of cooperation and the pillars of just war theory. An original exploration of a crucial but overlooked phenomenon, Conspiring with the Enemy is a significant contribution to military ethics and political philosophy.

Trench Talk

Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752479210
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Trench Talk written by Peter Doyle and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War largely directed the course of the twentieth century. Fought on three continents, the war saw 14 million killed and 34 million wounded. Its impact shaped the world we live in today, and the language of the trenches continues to live in the modern consciousness. One of the enduring myths of the First World War is that the experience of the trenches was not talked about. Yet dozens of words entered or became familiar in the English language as a direct result of the soldiers' experiences. This book looks at how the experience of the First World War changed the English language, adding words that were both in slang and standard military use, and modifying the usage and connotations of existing words and phrases. Illustrated with material from the authors' collections and photographs of the objects of the war, the book will look at how the words emerged into everyday language.

Elements of Trench Warfare

Author : William Henry Waldron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Trench Warfare written by William Henry Waldron and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Weapons of the Trench War, 1914-1918

Author : Anthony Saunders
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Weapons of the Trench War, 1914-1918 written by Anthony Saunders and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book to cover First World War trench weaponry in detail and as such will appeal to everyone with an interest in this landmark conflict of the twentieth century. It sheds new light on the war and shows that the development of these weapons had an impact on the conduct of the fighting."--BOOK JACKET.

The Art of Survival

Author : Libby Murphy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021751X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Survival written by Libby Murphy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7. Le Cafard: Brutalization, Alienation, and Despair -- 8. Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp: From the Art of Survival to the Survival of Art -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z