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Download or read book The Diehards 1914-16 written by JT Blythe and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n 1914 the 'Diehards' the 4th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment went to fight on the Western Front in a war that was supposed to be the war to end all wars. The horror of the trenches with lice, rats, mud, cold, gas and flame throwers. Men lying dead and dying in no-man's land some whose bodies would not be recovered until after the war ended. This account gives an insight into the bravery, courage and dedication shown by those men. Although the characters are fictitious the events are real as are the facts and figures. Author JT Blythe puts together a story woven round the actual battles the Battalion took part in over the period 1914-1915 giving an insight not only to the horrors of the Western Front but also to the realities of the Home Front and the efforts made by many patriotic women who kept the country working in the absence of their menfolk.
Book Synopsis The Die-Hards in the Great War: Vol. 1 by : Everard Wyrall
Download or read book The Die-Hards in the Great War: Vol. 1 written by Everard Wyrall and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Die-Hards' is the nickname of the Middlesex Regiment, earned at the battle of Albuera in the Peninsular War in May 1811. The Regiment was one of five that had four regular battalions before the outbreak of war, it also had two Special Reserve battalions (5th and 6th) and four Territorial battalions, 7th to 10th. During the course of the war another thirty-nine battalions were formed making the Regiment the second largest along with the King's (Liverpool), though not all battalions survived to the end of the war; twenty-four of them went abroad, serving on the Western Front, Gallipoli, Italy, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, Palestine, Gibraltar and Siberia. Losses amounted to 12,720, 81 Battle Honours and 5 VCs were awarded. The Middlesex were in it right from the start, the first soldier of the BEF to be killed was L/Cpl Parr, 4th Middlesex, on 21 August 1914, and the first officer to be killed was from the same battalion - Major W.H Abell, at Mons on 23 August. This is not a history that deals with each battalion independently, there are too many of them. The narrative describes the fortunes of the twenty-four active service battalions (with very good maps) in the various theatres of war, though mainly on the Western Front, and on every page there is, in the margin the date of the action or event being described and the battalion or battalions involved. The first volume covers 1914 to the end of 1916, and the second takes up the story from the beginning of 1917 to the armistice, including a chapter on operations in Siberia and Murmansk involving the 25th Battalion which didn't get home till September 1919. Speaking of his battalion [25th] the CO said: "One and all behaved like Englishmen - the highest eulogy that can be passed upon the conduct of men." Sentiments like that expressed today would almost get you clapped in irons! There is no Roll of Honour nor list of Honours and Awards. There is a very useful appendix listing all the active service battalions with the brigades and divisions to which they were allocated with any subsequent changes, and the theatres in which they served.
Book Synopsis A Miners Pals Battalion at War by : Mike Hall
Download or read book A Miners Pals Battalion at War written by Mike Hall and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, this is a story that so far has never been told. The 18th Battalion Middlesex Regiment were not infantry men whose primary job was to go 'over the top' at the start or during battle. Nor were they deployed behind the lines away from the action with the generals and base camp workers. They had a different job – to build the infrastructure necessary to prosecute the war. These 'miners pals' played a vital role in the war. They dug and drained trenches, wired No Man’s Land, mined under enemy lines, made and repaired roads, filled in craters, constructed dug-outs, stock piled ammunition, built and improved billets, fetched and carried, kept open communications with the front, made and repaired railways, built and demolished bridges, gased the enemy, picquetted rods and held the front line. If a job needed doing, they did it – no matter where, when or how dangerous. At times they fought back the Germans with only their picks and shovels, and in High Wood, at the height of the Battle of the Somme, they were deployed to fight the enemy at bayonet point. By this, amongst other events, the 18th Battalion earned the right to use the Middlesex Regiment nickname 'die-hards'. A Miners Pals Battalion at War is written in diary form, based on the 18th Middlesex Battalion War Diary and the 33rd Division War Diary. Volume 1 covers August 1914 – June 1917, with Volume 2 continuing the entries from July 1917 to January 1919. There are many accounts of the bravery of members of the battalion, recording biographical details of each soldier, including the cemetery where they are buried or memorial where they are honoured. The book is a goldmine of information, laden with incidents from the war and facts that have been cross-checked and verified. It is a fascinating read for anyone looking for an untold aspect of WWI.
Book Synopsis The Die-hards in the Great War: 1916-1919 by : Everard Wyrall
Download or read book The Die-hards in the Great War: 1916-1919 written by Everard Wyrall and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Monthly Army List by : Great Britain. Army
Download or read book The Monthly Army List written by Great Britain. Army and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 2534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book St Quentin written by Philip Guest and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the First World War, how many thousands of British families would have proud or bitter reason to remember the name St Quentin? At least eight Divisions, 23 Brigades, 74 Battalions an enormous number of fighting men, a weight of experience, courage, defeat and victory, all to be traced through these fields and villages round the city. There is much to honour here: exhausted British troops marching south in the Retreat from Mons in August 1914, resistance attacks on the Hindenburg Line in 1917, desperate feats of arms in the final German onslaught in the Spring of 1918. Many impressive individual and collective achievements, captured guns, Victoria Crosses richly earned. The ancient city itself suffered too - bombardment by French and British artillery, its citizens subjected and exploited by the occupying German forces, then evacuated ahead of the withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line - before its final liberation in October 1918. The book gives details of positions, redoubts, attacks, lines of advance and retreat, with many illustrations provided from local sources. Most of the positions described can still be traced and the sites of some epic events located.
Book Synopsis F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals. 1923 by : William Swan Sonnenschein
Download or read book F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals. 1923 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The House of Lords 1911-2011 by : Chris Ballinger
Download or read book The House of Lords 1911-2011 written by Chris Ballinger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: House of Lords reform is often characterised as unfinished business: a riddle that has been left unanswered since 1911. But rarely can an unanswered riddle have had so many answers offered, even though few have been accepted; indeed, when Viscount Cave was invited in the mid-1920s to lead a Cabinet committee on Lords reform, he complained of finding 'the ground covered by an embarrassing mass of proposals'.That embarrassing mass increased throughout the twentieth century. Much ink has been spilled on what should be done with the upper House of Parliament; much less ink has been expended on why reform has been so difficult to achieve. This book analyses in detail the principal attempts to reform the House of Lords. Starting with the Parliament Act of 1911 the book examines the century of non-reform that followed, drawing upon substantial archival sources, many of which have been under-utilised until now. These sources challenge many of the existing understandings of the history of House of Lords reform and the reasons for success or failure of reform attempts. The book begins by arguing against the popular idea that the 1911 Act was intended by its supporters to be a temporary measure. 'No one – peers included – should be allowed to pronounce about the future of the House of Lords without reading Chris Ballinger's authoritative, shrewd and readable account about reform attempts over the past century. He punctures several widely-held myths and claims in the current debate.' Rt Hon Peter Riddell CBE Director, Institute for Government and former Hansard Society chair 'This is at once an impeccably researched academic study, and a thoroughly readable account loaded with lessons for today's would-be Lords reformers.' Lord (David) Lipsey
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Book Synopsis The Political Role of the British Peerage in the Third Reform Act System, C. 1885-1914 by : Andrew Adonis
Download or read book The Political Role of the British Peerage in the Third Reform Act System, C. 1885-1914 written by Andrew Adonis and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Best Books: F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals. 1923 by : William Swan Sonnenschein
Download or read book The Best Books: F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals. 1923 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Best Books by : William Swan Sonnenschein
Download or read book The Best Books written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breeding Superman written by Dan Stone and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the First World War there existed an intellectual turmoil in Britain as great as any in Germany, France or Russia, as the debates over Nietzsche and eugenics in the context of early modernism reveal. With the rise of fascism after 1918, these debates became more ideologically driven, with science and vitalist philosophy being hailed in some quarters as saviours from bourgeois decadence, vituperated in others as heralding the onset of barbarism. Breeding Superman looks at several of the leading Nietzscheans and eugenicists, and challenges the long-cherished belief that British intellectuals were fundamentally uninterested in race. The result is a study of radical ideas which are conventionally written out of histories of the politics and culture of the period.
Book Synopsis The Diehards by : Gregory D. Phillips
Download or read book The Diehards written by Gregory D. Phillips and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The V. C. and D. S. O. by : Sir O'Moore Creagh
Download or read book The V. C. and D. S. O. written by Sir O'Moore Creagh and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Making Aristocracy Work by : Andrew Adonis
Download or read book Making Aristocracy Work written by Andrew Adonis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the political role and activities of the peerage both inside and outside Parliament, the late 19th and early 20th century. Andrew Adonis reassesses the strengths and weaknesses of the House of Lords, and shows how its members were able to justify themselves by their work.
Book Synopsis Monthly Bulletin. New Series by : St. Louis Public Library
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin. New Series written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
