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Author : Horace Bruckshaw
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Diaries of Private Horace Bruckshaw, 1915-1916 written by Horace Bruckshaw and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107782635
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Behind the Front written by Craig Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now scholars have looked for the source of the indomitable Tommy morale on the Western Front in innate British bloody-mindedness and irony, not to mention material concerns such as leave, food, rum, brothels, regimental pride, and male bonding. However, re-examining previously used sources alongside never-before consulted archives, Craig Gibson shifts the focus away from battle and the trenches to times behind the front, where the British intermingled with a vast population of allied civilians, whom Lord Kitchener had instructed the troops to 'avoid'. Besides providing a comprehensive examination of soldiers' encounters with local French and Belgian inhabitants which were not only unavoidable but also challenging, symbiotic and uplifting in equal measure, Gibson contends that such relationships were crucial to how the war was fought on the Western Front and, ultimately, to British victory in 1918. What emerges is a novel interpretation of the British and Dominion soldier at war.
Author : David Silbey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134269749
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914-1916 written by David Silbey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of men volunteered to leave home, hearth and family to go to a foreign land to fight in 1914, the start of the biggest war in British history. It was a war fought by soldier-citizens, millions strong, most of whom had volunteered willingly to go. They made up the army that first held, and then, in 1918, thrust back the German Army to win t
Author : Simon Robbins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134269684
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book British Generalship on the Western Front 1914-1918 written by Simon Robbins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how British Army learnt from the pyrrhic victories of 1915-17 and developed the new tactics, leadership and doctrine of combined arms to overcome the tactical stalemate hitherto bedevilling Allied offensives to defeat the
Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841198651
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (986 download)
Download or read book True War Stories written by Jon E. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred R. van Hartesveldt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313370591
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Dardanelles Campaign, 1915 written by Fred R. van Hartesveldt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-11-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passage of time has not slowed the production of books and articles about World War I. This volume provides a guide to the historiography and bibliography of the Dardanelles Campaign, including the Gallipoli invasion. It focuses on military history but also provides information on political histories that give significant attention to the handling of the Dardanelles Campaign. The opening section of the book provides background information about the campaign, discusses the major sources of information, and lays out the major interpretative disputes. A comprehensive annotated bibliography follows. This book nicely complements the two earlier volumes on World War I battles—The Battle of Jutland by Eugene Rasor and The Battles of the Somme by Fred R. van Hartesveldt.
Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787445
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Janet S. K. Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521831536
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Fighting Different Wars written by Janet S. K. Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-19 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular idea of the First World War is a story of disillusionment and pointless loss. This vision, however, dates from well after the Armistice. In this 2004 book Janet Watson separates out wartime from retrospective accounts and contrasts war as lived experience - for soldiers, women and non-combatants - with war as memory, comparing men's and women's responses and tracing the re-creation of the war experience in later writings. Using a wealth of published and unpublished wartime and retrospective texts, Watson contends that participants tended to construct their experience - lived and remembered - as either work or service. In fact, far from having a united front, many active participants were in fact 'fighting different wars', and this process only continued in the decades following peace. Fighting Different Wars is an interesting, richly textured and multi-layered book which will be compelling reading for all those interested in the First World War.
Author : Michael Roper
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526154021
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Afterlives of war written by Michael Roper and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afterlives of war documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations who grew up in Australia, Britain and Germany after the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, they experienced its effects from their earliest years. Based on ninety oral history interviews and observation during the First World War Centenary, this pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War, and the intimate personal legacies of the conflict that animate their history-making.
Author : Alan Weeks
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075246258X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book A Bloody Picnic written by Alan Weeks and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-12-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the crucial factors which kept Tommy going on the Western Front was his facility to see what was comic in the horror, deprivation and discomfort of trench warfare, an attitude which blossomed further in the rest areas behind the lines. The nature of the comedy ranged from gentle irony to a rougher hilarity that produced on belly laughs. Such laughter could arise from extreme physical pain and discomfort, from the provision of sustenance and from matters relating to dress, equipment and weapons. A further source of fun was bizarre events not dissimilar to situation comedy and pantomime. Moreover, a whole culture of humour surrounded Tommy's words and songs, and many trench pets – cats, dogs, horses, goats, even rats – were in on the joke in one way or another. Nor was it only the British soldiers who managed to find something to laugh about in the trenches – the Germans could sometimes see the funny side as well. A Bloody Picnic provides an unusual perspective on how soliders coped with the grim realities of the First World War.
Author : Ronald Blythe
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Diaries written by Ronald Blythe and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1989 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the world's greatest diaries from the 16th century to the 20th century. From Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin to Lord Byron and Philip Larkin, this volume collects a variety of diaries that bare souls and describe their times. Line art throughout.
Author : Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192642782
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Writing a War of Words written by Lynda Mugglestone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark's unique series of lexical scrapbooks, replete with clippings, annotations, and real-time definitions, reveals a desire to put living language history to the fore, and to create a record of often fleeting popular use. The rise of trench warfare, the Zeppelinophobia of total war, and descriptions of shellshock (and raid shock on the Home Front) all drew his attentive gaze. The archive includes examples from a range of sources, such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front, as well as documenting social issues such as the shifting forms of representation as women 'did their bit' on the Home Front. Lynda's Mugglestone's fascinating investigation of this valuable archive reassesses the conventional accounts of language history during this period, recuperates Clark himself as another 'forgotten lexicographer', challenges the received wisdom on the inexpressibilities of war, and examines the role of language as an interdisciplinary lens on history.
Author : Yeoman James Orvill Raines
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429720238
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Good Night Officially written by Yeoman James Orvill Raines and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My interest in USS Howorth originated during my thirty-three months of duty in the Pacific Fleet destroyer Hamner, named after Howorth's gunnery officer killed at Okinawa, Lieutenant Henry R. "Pete" Hamner. His legacy jncluded the Reader's Digest subscriptions his mother presented each year to the wardroom and crew. Later, as executive officer in the hydrofoil Plainview, exasperated by the endless stream of logs and records demanded by higher authorities, I peevishly tested the navy's record system and wrote away for information on Lieutenant Hamner and Howorth. I was surprised by the magnitude of the material documenting Howorth's Pacific War, ranging from hourly barometric readings and seawater injection temperatures to ammunition effectiveness reports.
Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780337299
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'. Here is the eye-witness chronicle of that war, from the trenches of Flanders to the staff rooms of the Imperial Germany Army, from T. E. Lawrence in the desert to the 'Red Baron' in the air, from Land Girls in England to German U-boat crews in the Atlantic, it leaves nothing out. And if all the horror of the war fought by the Tommies in the trenches is captured, so too are the machinations of the 'top brass' and politicians.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 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 1981 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Schweitzer
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cross and the Trenches written by Richard Schweitzer and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the testimony of over 500 British and American soldiers, the author provides an in-depth account of topics such as soldiers prayers and biblical readings, as well as religious doubts.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Infantry written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
