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Author : Brian Gardner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Big Push, a Portrait of the Battle of the Somme written by Brian Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473841046
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 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 487 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.
Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857206389
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book The Long Shadow written by David Reynolds and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to personal tragedies, however moving, we have lost the big picture: the history has been distilled into poetry. In TheLong Shadow, critically acclaimed author David Reynolds seeks to redress the balance by exploring the true impact of 1914-18 on the 20th century. Some of the Great War's legacies were negative and pernicious but others proved transformative in a positive sense. Exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism and re-examining the differing impacts of the War on Britain, Ireland and the United States,TheLong Shadowthrows light on the whole of the last century and demonstrates that 1914-18 is a conflict that Britain, more than any other nation, is still struggling to comprehend. Stunningly broad in its historical perspective, The Long Shadowis a magisterial and seismic re-presentation of the Great War.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Review of Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393088634
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century written by David Reynolds and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History. "If you only read one book about the First World War in this anniversary year, read The Long Shadow. David Reynolds writes superbly and his analysis is compelling and original." -Anne Chisolm, Chair of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Committee, and Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a haze of memory, often seen merely as a distant preamble to World War II. In The Long Shadow critically acclaimed historian David Reynolds seeks to broaden our vision by assessing the impact of the Great War across the twentieth century. He shows how events in that turbulent century—particularly World War II, the Cold War, and the collapse of Communism—shaped and reshaped attitudes to 1914–18. By exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism, as well as art and poetry, The Long Shadow is stunningly broad in its historical perspective. Reynolds throws light on the vast expanse of the last century and explains why 1914–18 is a conflict that America is still struggling to comprehend. Forging connections between people, places, and ideas, The Long Shadow ventures across the traditional subcultures of historical scholarship to offer a rich and layered examination not only of politics, diplomacy, and security but also of economics, art, and literature. The result is a magisterial reinterpretation of the place of the Great War in modern history.
Author : Anne Powell
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752496166
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Fierce Light written by Anne Powell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a selection of prose and poetry from 38 contemporary British, Australian and New Zealand writers who fought during the Battle of the Somme. This work tells the stories of different men from different backgrounds.
Author : David F. Burg
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813127459
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Almanac of World War I written by David F. Burg and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a day-by-day account of the action on all fronts and of the events surrounding the conflict, from the guns of August 1914 to the November 1918 Armistice and its troubled aftermath. Daily entries, topical descriptions, biographical sketches, maps, and illustrations combine to give a ready and succinct account of what was happening in each of the principal theaters of war.
Author : Carol Z Rothkopf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000161870
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 19191967 Vol 3 written by Carol Z Rothkopf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the 16 WWI poets memorialized in Westminster Abbey, two were destined to become lifelong friends. Although both served on the Western Front, it was not until 1919 that Siegfried Sassoon received his first letter from Edmund Blunden. This collection of Sassoon and Blunden’s correspondence contains more than 1,000 letters, cards and telegrams.
Author : B. Grob-Fitzgibbon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230604323
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Turning Points of the Irish Revolution written by B. Grob-Fitzgibbon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his exploration of the use of intelligence in Ireland by the British government from the onset of the Ulster Crisis in 1912 to the end of the Irish War of Independence in 1921, Grob-Fitzgibbon analyzes the role that intelligence played during those critical nine years.
Author : David Hanna
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621575446
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Rendezvous with Death written by David Hanna and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
Author : Ian V. Hogg
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810833722
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of World War I written by Ian V. Hogg and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains brief biographies of commanders and diplomatic leaders, as well as casualty statistics and descriptions of geographical locations. Each entry gives a basic overview of crucial information. It also includes maps and chronologies that provide a visual perspective on the breadth of World War I, and how it truly encompassed, and transformed the entire world.
Author : A.M.J. Hyatt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487590393
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book General Sir Arthur Currie written by A.M.J. Hyatt and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1987-12-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important Canadian in the First World War, Arthur Currie was an extraordinary successful field commander in a war that produced few successful generals. In this biography A.M.J. Hyatt recalls the military career of a remarkable man. Currie's achievements were realized in spite of some formidable obstacles. He was not a professional soldier, having been a civilian before the war. He entered the war under the shadow of a scandal, which, had it been disclosed at the time, would certainly have brought public disgrace. He was not a charismatic man; he had none of the personal flair of so many successful military leaders. In many ways these apparently negative factors make his story all the more remarkable, the secret of his success the more intriguing. That secret, as Hyatt explains, was a fine sense of tactics: Currie, the 'amateur' soldier, had all the instincts of a dedicated professional, and he used them to minimize the destruction of the young Canadian troops under his command. When the war was over Currie returned to civilian life, and was knighted for his service. This biography offers the first balanced account of a central figure in Canadian military histor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1452 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Military Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred R. van Hartesveldt
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Battles of the Somme, 1916 written by Fred R. van Hartesveldt and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1996-05-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1916 Anglo-French offensive comprising the battles of the Somme marked a change in the Allies' relationships, with the British beginning to play a more important role. From contemporaries to the present the Somme has also produced a number of controversies. This book shows the current state of historians' interpretations of the Somme. The initial section presents the historical background of the offensive, lays out the major interpretative disputes, and identifies the scholars and works in each school of thought. The second section provides a bibliography of more than 700 entries. The initial section of the book presents the historical background of the offensive and lays out the major interpretative disputes about it. The section identifies scholars and works in each school of thought, enables readers to determine where a specific work fits in the spectrum of views, and provides cross references to the bibliography. The second section provides an annotated bibliography of more than 700 entries.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Cooksey
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844157075
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Barnsley Pals written by Jon Cooksey and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Pals' battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derby's scheme, and in response to Kitchener's famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front.
