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Author : M. Kincaid-Smith
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ISBN 13 : 9781847341037
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)
Download or read book 25th Division in France and Flanders written by M. Kincaid-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lt Col M. Kincaid-Smith
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1781504458
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book The 25th Division in France and Flanders written by Lt Col M. Kincaid-Smith and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 25th Division (74th, 75th and 76th Brigades) was formed in September 1914, one of Kitchener's Third New Army divisions, under the command of Major-General F.Ventris (late Essex), who had retired some five years earlier. He was replaced at the end of May 1915 by B.J.C Doran (late R Irish Regt), a regular, promoted from command of the 68th Brigade; prior to that he had commanded the 8th Infantry Brigade in France during the first two months of the war. The division went to France in September 1915 and a month later the 76th Brigade was transferred to the 3rd Division in exchange for the 7th Brigade. For the next six months or so the division was in the ‘Plugstreet'/Armentieres sector before moving down to Vimy Ridge in May 1916, where it was awarded the first of the six VCs it was to win by the end of the war. Command changed again in June when E.G.T Bainbridge replaced Doran who was sent back to command a district in Ireland. Thereafter the division fought on the Somme, at Messines, Third Ypres, in the German offensive of March/April 1918 and finally on the Aisne in May 1918, with IX Corps under French command. When the division was taken out of the line in mid-June it had, since February, suffered losses of some 15,500 of whom 7,500 were missing. At this point the divisional and brigade HQs and the infantry battalions were sent back to England where the division was reconstituted; it returned to France in September with another commander, J.R.E Charles, who had taken over in August. This is reflected in the divisional history which is divided into two parts, Part I is concerned with the original division, Part II with the reborn division. Kincaid-Smith’s work is unlike any other Great War divisional history in that nearly half the book is taken up with citations (over 300 of them), lists of honours and awards, tables of casualties and details of officer casualties. As he says in his introduction, he sets out to give a very brief sketch of the operations in which the 25th Division was engaged from time to time, so this is not a continuous narrative. Beginning with the Somme he devotes a chapter to each of the major operations involving the division, each chapter followed by the honours and awards gained plus selected citations; usually, such details appear in appendices. From time to time casualties suffered by the division over a given period are summarised in tables that give the figures for every unit; each of these tables (there are four of them) is followed by the names of the officer casualties (killed, wounded and missing), listed by units; individual dates are not given. By the end of the war the division’s losses amounted to 48,289 of whom 623 Officers and 12,663 Other Ranks made the supreme sacrifice.
Author : M. Kincaid-Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The 25th Division in France and Flanders written by M. Kincaid-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Malcolm Harvey Kincaid-Smith
Publisher : London : Harrison
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The 25th Division in France and Flanders written by Thomas Malcolm Harvey Kincaid-Smith and published by London : Harrison. This book was released on 1920 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Seton Hutchison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Thirty-third Division in France and Flanders, 1915-1919 written by Graham Seton Hutchison and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of the Books Relating to the European War, 1914-1918 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1232 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ... written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Garth
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544263723
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)
Download or read book Tolkien and the Great War written by John Garth and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the First World War influenced the author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy: “Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written.” —A. N. Wilson As Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded friends who had wide-ranging conversations in their Tea Club and Barrovian Society. After finishing his degree, Tolkien experienced the horrors of the Great War as a signal officer in the Battle of the Somme, where two of those school friends died. All the while, he was hard at work on an original mythology that would become the basis of his literary masterpiece, the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In this biographical study, drawn in part from Tolkien’s personal wartime papers, John Garth traces the development of the author’s work during this critical period. He shows how the deaths of two comrades compelled Tolkien to pursue the dream they had shared, and argues that the young man used his imagination not to escape from reality—but to transform the cataclysm of his generation. While Tolkien’s contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that resonates to this day. “Garth’s fine study should have a major audience among serious students of Tolkien.” —Publishers Weekly “A highly intelligent book . . . Garth displays impressive skills both as researcher and writer.” —Max Hastings, author of The Secret War “Somewhere, I think, Tolkien is nodding in appreciation.” —San Jose Mercury News “A labour of love in which journalist Garth combines a newsman’s nose for a good story with a scholar’s scrupulous attention to detail . . . Brilliantly argued.” —Daily Mail (UK) “Gripping from start to finish and offers important new insights.” —Library Journal “Insight into how a writer turned academia into art, how deeply friendship supports and wounds us, and how the death and disillusionment that characterized World War I inspired Tolkien’s lush saga.” —Detroit Free Press
Author : Paul Oldfield
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473872081
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Victoria Crosses on the Western Front, April 1915–June 1916 written by Paul Oldfield and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During visits to the First World War battlefields the author often wondered where various Victoria Cross actions took place; he resolved to find out. Research commenced in 1988 and numerous sources have been consulted in the meantime. The book is designed for the battlefield visitor as much as the armchair reader. A detailed account of each VC action is set within the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed sketch maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants. It allows visitors to stand upon the spot, or very close, where the VC actions took place and understand what happened and where. Photographs of the battle sites illustrate the accounts. There is also a comprehensive biography for each recipient covering every aspect of their lives 'warts and all' - parents and siblings, education, civilian employment, military career, wife and children, death and burial/commemoration. There is also a host of other information, much of it published for the first time. Some fascinating characters emerge, with numerous links to many famous people and events.
Author : Peter Liddle
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850525888
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Passchendaele in Perspective written by Peter Liddle and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passchendaele In Perspective explores the context and real nature of the participants experience, evaluates British and German High Command, the aerial and maritime dimensions of the battle, the politicians and manpower debates on the home front and it looks at the tactics employed, the weapons and equipment used, the experience of the British; German and indeed French soldiers. It looks thoroughly into the Commonwealth soldiers contribution and makes an unparalleled attempt to examine together in one volume specialist facets of the battle, the weather, field survey and cartography, discipline and morale, and the cultural and social legacy of the battle, in art, literature and commemoration. Each one of its thirty chapters presents a thought-provoking angle on the subject. They add up to an unique analysis of the battle from Commonwealth, American, German, French, Belgian and United Kingdom historians. This book will undoubtedly become a valued work of reference for all those with an interest in World War One.
Author : Phil Tomaselli
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526714116
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Givenchy in the Great War written by Phil Tomaselli and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The village of Givenchy-ls-la-Basse sits on a small rise in the Pas de Calais Department in northern France. One hundred years ago it was overtaken by the First World War. The fighting there was intense eleven Victoria Crosses were won in this tiny locality between 1914 and 1918. Phil Tomasellis in-depth account shows what happened at Givenchy when it became a battlefield, and the story here was repeated in the other villages and towns on the Western Front. Givenchys key position made it the target for crushing bombardments, infantry assaults and subterranean warfare. The landscape was pulverized by shellfire, the ground beneath was honeycombed with tunnels. Mining operations, shelling, sniping and trench raids took place around the remains of the village even when this stretch of the front line was relatively quiet. The grueling struggle of attrition that characterized the fighting on the Western Front continued here throughout the war. Phil Tomasellis gripping narrative makes extensive use of war diary extracts, personal stories, official and unofficial histories.
Author : Paul Oldfield
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473884977
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Victoria Crosses on the Western Front written by Paul Oldfield and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated WWI battlefield guide explores the heroic acts honored with Victoria Crosses—and the sites where they took place—in 1918 France. Historian and battlefield tour guide Paul Oldenfield spent years researching the Victoria Cross actions of the First World War and accurately locating where each event took place. He now shares his remarkable findings with battlefield visitors and armchair historians in this fascinating series of guidebooks. This volume in the Victoria Crosses on the Western Front series covers the first Battles of the Somme in 1918, the Battle of the Lys, and other combat operation in western France. A thorough account of each VC action is set within the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants, while photographs of the battle sites richly illustrate the accounts. Oldfield also includes a comprehensive biography for each recipient, covering their families, education, civilian employment, military career, death, and commemoration. A host of other information, much of it published for the first time, reveals some fascinating characters, with numerous links to many famous people and events.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal United Service Institution written by Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781593124
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book From the Somme to Victory written by Peter Simkins and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Simkins has established a reputation over the last forty years as one of the most original and stimulating historians of the First World War. He has made a major contribution to the debate about the performance of the British Army on the Western Front. This collection of his most perceptive and challenging essays, which concentrates on British operations in France between 1916 and 1918, shows that this reputation is richly deserved. He focuses on key aspects of the army's performance in battle, from the first day of the Somme to the Hundred Days, and gives a fascinating insight into the developing theory and practice of the army as it struggled to find a way to break through the German line. His rigorous analysis undermines some of the common assumptions - and the myths - that still cling to the history of these British battles.
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Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Army Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
