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Author : Christopher Thomas Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of the South Wales Borderers, 1914-1918 written by Christopher Thomas Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : CT Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910241981
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book History of the South Wales Borderers 1914-1918 written by CT Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Everard Wyrall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The History of the 19th Division, 1914-1918 written by Everard Wyrall and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred R. van Hartesveldt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313068437
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Battles of the British Expeditionary Forces, 1914-1915 written by Fred R. van Hartesveldt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this valuable resource, over 1,000 annotated sources from Great Britain, France, and Germany offer a historiographical reference for study of the British army at the beginning and in the first battles of World War I. Unique to this bibliography is the comprehensive coverage of sources, resulting in a more complete picture of the circumstances of activities of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). Sources include coverage of the BEF's military role, as well as background information about domestic military considerations and Allied and enemy efforts. This volume will support researchers and students in their efforts to find out what the Expeditionary Force's contributions were in World War I, and for expanding their knowledge of the Great War and British military history. In this valuable resource, over 1,000 annotated sources from Great Britain, France, and Germany offer a historiographical reference for study of the British army at the beginning and in the first battles of World War I. Unique to this bibliography is the comprehensive coverage of sources, and it results in a more complete picture of the circumstances of activities of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). Sources include coverage of the BEF's military role, as well as background information about domestic military considerations and Allied and enemy efforts. This volume will support researchers and students in their efforts to find out what the Expeditionary Force's contributions were in World War I, and for expanding their knowledge of the Great War and British military history. The volume includes four chapters of historiographical essays discussings the interpretations and controversies that surround the performance and leadership of the BEF in 1914-1915. The essays direct readers to the major sources that support various ideas and indicate gaps in the historiography of the subject. Following the historiographical essays is an annotated bibliography of more than 1,000 sources that are relevant to the study of the BEF.
Author : Keith Robbins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198224969
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (249 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989 written by Keith Robbins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.
Author : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844155854
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Kitcheners Army written by Peter Simkins and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener. How did Britain succeed in creating a mass army, almost from scratch, in the middle of a major war ? What compelled so many men to volunteer ' and what happened to them once they had taken the King's shilling ? Peter Simkins describes how Kitchener's New Armies were raised and reviews the main political, economic and social effects of the recruiting campaign. He examines the experiences and impressions of the officers and men who made up the New Armies. As well as analysing their motives for enlisting, he explores how they were fed, housed, equipped and trained before they set off for active service abroad. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from government papers to the diaries and letters of individual soldiers, he questions long-held assumptions about the 'rush to the colours' and the nature of patriotism in 1914. The book will be of interest not only to those studying social, political and economic history, but also to general readers who wish to know more about the story of Britain's citizen soldiers in the Great War.
Author : Arthur S. White
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 178150539X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army written by Arthur S. White and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the most valuable books in the armoury of the serious student of British Military history. It is a new and revised edition of Arthur White's much sought-after bibliography of regimental, battalion and other histories of all regiments and Corps that have ever existed in the British Army. This new edition includes an enlarged addendum to that given in the 1988 reprint. It is, quite simply, indispensible.
Author : Christopher Thomas Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The South Wales Borderers, 24th Foot, 1689-1937 written by Christopher Thomas Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Kendall
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750959940
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Aisne 1914 written by Paul Kendall and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of the Aisne fought in September 1914 introduced a new and savage mode of warfare to the soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, their French allies and to the German Army. Both officers and men were trained to fight mobile wars. When they reached the north bank of the Aisne, the ‘Old Contemptibles’ would be stopped by the Germans entrenched on high ground, armed with machine guns and supported by heavy artillery. The British commanders would naively send their troops on futile assaults up slopes devoid of cover to attack the German lines dug in on the ridges along the Chemin des Dames and concealed by woodland. The British did not even have grenades. The BEF suffered 12,000 casualties. Their commanders, who were not trained to fight a modern war, were lost for a solution or even a strategy. It was on the Chemin des Dames that the first trenches of the Western Front were dug and where the line that would stretch from the Swiss frontier to the North Sea began. The Battle of the Aisne saw the dawn of trench warfare and a stalemate that would last for the next four years. Wide-ranging archival research by author Paul Kendall makes this the first in-depth study of the battle in print. His correspondence with surviving relatives of those who fought brings a human face to the terrible casualty statistics that would come to define the trenches.
Author : K. W. Mitchinson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473842727
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Pioneer Battalions in the Great War written by K. W. Mitchinson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer battalions, created as an expedient in 1914, were a new concept in the British Army. Intended to provide the Royal Engineers, with skilled labour and to relieve the infantry from some of its non-combatant duties, Pioneers became the work horses of the Expedentiary Forces. The Coldstream Guards and over three dozen Country regiments, each created at least one pioneer battalion. Several New Army battalions were raised specifically as Pioneers, while others were converted Territorials or Kitchener units formed originally as conventional infantry. Adopting a badge of a cross rifle and pick, these battalions wired, dug and reverted in all weathers and in all terrain. On many occasions they abandoned their working tools and fought alongside the infantry in repelling enemy attacks. In their efforts to stem the German offensives of 1918, several Pioneer units fought themselves to virtual annihilation. Often confused with the Pioneer Corps of the Second World War, the work of the Pioneer battalions has been largely ignored or misunderstood. Far from being the units of the ages and inform, these sixty-eight battalions played a major role in the Allied victory. Pioneer Battalions in the Great War traces the reasons behind the creation of these units, the work they performed and the dramatic transitions many of them had to undergo. It also examines how and why Pioneers have never received the recognition they deserve.
Author : Ian Beckett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316824543
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)
Download or read book The British Army and the First World War written by Ian Beckett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front and throughout the rest of the world as well as the army's social history, pre-war and wartime planning and strategy, the maintenance of discipline and morale and the lasting legacy of the First World War on the army's development. They assess the strengths and weaknesses of the army between 1914 and 1918, engaging with key debates around the adequacy of British generalship and whether or not there was a significant 'learning curve' in terms of the development of operational art during the course of the war. Their findings show how, despite limitations of initiative and innovation amongst the high command, the British army did succeed in developing the effective combined arms warfare necessary for victory in 1918.
Author : A. J. Barker
Publisher : Enigma Books
ISBN 13 : 1929631863
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The First Iraq War--1914-1918 written by A. J. Barker and published by Enigma Books. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had this book been in print in 2003, things would have been different.
Author : Stephen Chambers
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783400277
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Gully Ravine written by Stephen Chambers and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concentrates on Gully Ravine and its immediate area on the western side of the Helles battlefield. Here trench fighting raged throughout the campaign, culminating in the Battle of Gully Ravine between 28 June and 5 July 1915. This attack was a successful piece of planning and execution, enabling the British to capture five lines of Turkish trenches, seriously threatening the Turkish hold on the southern tip of the peninsula. After this attack the region fell into the deadlock of trench warfare, which brought its horrors as well as its monotony. This beautiful and picturesque area of Gallipoli is seldom visited, and its part in the campaign almost forgotten. The book is well researched and contains a high proportion of original photographs and maps, which have never been published before.
Author : Stephen Chambers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473838150
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Anzac written by Stephen Chambers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The August Offensive was born out of the failures of the Gallipoli landings and the subsequent battles of late spring and early summer 1915. General Sir Ian Hamilton, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, chose to play all his remaining cards in this daring and ingenious gamble that he hoped would finally turn the tide in the allies favour and bring his army up onto the heights overlooking the elusive Dardanelles. However the plan's same ingenuity became its eventual undoing. It required complex manoeuvring in tortuous terrain; whilst many of the attacking soldiers were already weakened by the hardships of four months of enduring very poor conditions on the Peninsula. What played out was heartbreakingly tragic; command failed the bravery and sacrifice of the fighting soldier. This Anzac offensive, fought by a combined force of British, Australian, New Zealand and Indian troops, made infamous places such as Lone Pine, The Nek, Sari Bair, Chunuk Bair, Hill Q, The Farm, Hill 971 and Hill 60. Although tantalisingly close to success, the offensive fell short of its objectives and the attack was ground down to a stalemate - not least the consequence of the inspiring leadership of Mustafa Kemal. Hamilton's gamble had failed. This is the story, told using a rich mix of letters, diaries, photographs and maps, of Gallipoli's last battles; the forlorn hope for a decisive victory.As featured in the West Sussex County Times and All About Horsham Magazine.
Author : Ian F. W. Beckett
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473816629
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book A Nation in Arms written by Ian F. W. Beckett and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2004-12-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapidly expanded into a national force of over five million. A Nation in Arms brings together original research into the impact of the war on the army as an institution, gives a revealing account of those who served in it and offers fascinating insights into its social history during one of the bloodiest wars.
Author : Stephen Bull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472808614
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Trench written by Stephen Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to trench warfare on the Western Front from an authority on the subject. Even now, 100 years on from the conflict, the image of trenches stretching across Western Europe – packed with young men clinging to life in horrendous conditions – remains a powerful reminder of one of the darkest moments in human history. In this excellent study of trench warfare on the Western Front, expert Dr Stephen Bull reveals the experience of life in the trenches, from length of service and coping with death and disease, to the uniforms and equipment given to soldiers on both sides of the conflict. He reveals how the trenches were constructed, the weaponry which was developed specifically for this new form of warfare, the tactics employed in mass attacks and the increasingly adept defensive methods designed to hold ground at all cost. Packed with photographs, illustrations, annotated trench maps, documents and first-hand accounts, this compelling narrative provides a richly detailed account of World War I, providing a soldier's-eye-view of life in the ominous trenches that scarred the land.
Author : Everard Wyrall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The West Yorkshire Regiment in the War, 1914-1918 written by Everard Wyrall and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
