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Book Synopsis The Instruments of Battle by : James Tanner
Download or read book The Instruments of Battle written by James Tanner and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The hitherto forgotten story of the development of the regimental band, mainly drummers and buglers. A rare piece of social history” (Books Monthly). The Instruments of Battle examines in detail the development and role of the British Army’s fighting drummers and buglers, from the time of the foundation of the army up to the present day. While their principal weapon of war was the drum and bugle—and the fife—these men and boys were not musicians as such, but fighting soldiers who took their place in the front line. The origins of the drum and bugle in the classical period and the later influence of Islamic armies are examined, leading to the arrival of the drum and fife in early Tudor England. The story proper picks up post-English Civil War. The drum’s period of supremacy through much of the eighteenth-century army is surveyed, and certain myths as to its use are dispelled. The bugle rapidly superseded the drum for field use in the nineteenth century—until developments on the battlefield consigned these instruments largely to barrack life and the parade ground. But there are surprising examples of the use of the bugle in the field through both world wars as the story is brought up to modern day and the instruments’ relegation to an almost exclusively ceremonial role. This is all set against a background of campaigns, battles, changing tactical methods, and the difficult processes of command and control on the battlefield. Interwoven is relevant comparison with other armies, particularly American and French. Stories of the drummers and buglers themselves provide social context to their place in the army.
Book Synopsis Instruments of War by : Spencer Tucker
Download or read book Instruments of War written by Spencer Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In war, the weapons and technologies employed have direct effects on how battles are waged. When new weapons are introduced, they can dramatically alter the outcomes of warfare-and consequently change the course of history itself. This reference work provides a fascinating overview of the major weapon systems and military technologies that have had a major impact on world history. Addressing weapons as crude as the club used by primitive man to the high-tech weapons of today such as unmanned drones, Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History offers nearly 270 p.
Book Synopsis The Battle Destined to Fight by : Rev. Babatunde Ezekiel Ajibola
Download or read book The Battle Destined to Fight written by Rev. Babatunde Ezekiel Ajibola and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-10-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an eye opener to christians and mom-christians that the world that we are is a battle field and that we are fighting a battle that has been the longest in the history of mankind.The church as an institution must wake up to her spiritual responsibily to alert the world of the danger ahead. It is all about a kingdom and not just religion.
Book Synopsis Battle Hymns by : Christian McWhirter
Download or read book Battle Hymns written by Christian McWhirter and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music was everywhere during the Civil War. Tunes could be heard ringing out from parlor pianos, thundering at political rallies, and setting the rhythms of military and domestic life. With literacy still limited, music was an important vehicle for communicating ideas about the war, and it had a lasting impact in the decades that followed. Drawing on an array of published and archival sources, Christian McWhirter analyzes the myriad ways music influenced popular culture in the years surrounding the war and discusses its deep resonance for both whites and blacks, South and North. Though published songs of the time have long been catalogued and appreciated, McWhirter is the first to explore what Americans actually said and did with these pieces. By gauging the popularity of the most prominent songs and examining how Americans used them, McWhirter returns music to its central place in American life during the nation's greatest crisis. The result is a portrait of a war fought to music.
Book Synopsis Instruments of War by : Spencer C. Tucker
Download or read book Instruments of War written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly detailed and well-illustrated single-volume work documents the evolution of warfare across history through weaponry and technological change. In war, the weapons and technologies employed have direct effects on how battles are waged. When new weapons are introduced, they can dramatically alter the outcomes of warfare—and consequently change the course of history itself. This reference work provides a fascinating overview of the major weapon systems and military technologies that have had a major impact on world history. Addressing weapons as crude as the club used by primitive man to the high-tech weapons of today such as unmanned drones, Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History offers nearly 270 profusely illustrated entries that examine the key roles played by specific weapons and identify their success and failures. The book begins with an introductory essay that frames the subject matter of the work and discusses the history of weapons as a whole. The text is concise and accessible to general readers without extensive backgrounds in military history yet provides the detailed information necessary to convey the complexity of the evolution of warfare through technological change.
Book Synopsis Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland by : John Brooks
Download or read book Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland written by John Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-09 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables.
Book Synopsis The Battle of Flodden 1513 by : John Sadler
Download or read book The Battle of Flodden 1513 written by John Sadler and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Flodden in 1513 was the largest battle ever to take place between England and Scotland. James IV himself led an army of 30,000 men over the border into England, ostensibly in revenge for the murder of a Scotsman, but in reality to assist their ally the French by diverting the forces of Henry VIII. Yet the Scots were hampered by old-fashioned weapons and tactics, whereas the English deployed more accurate artillery and their vaunted longbowmen. When King James IV was killed while leading a charge, and many of their officers died, the Scots were left in disarray and the English victory was decisive. As the first new history of the battle in a decade, this authoritative and eye-opening account marks the 500th anniversary and brings our knowledge of the conflict up to date. Expert knowledge and detailed maps look at the key events, the 1135 campaign and the minor battles of Millfield and Norham, and a full profile of the respective forces and deployments, and convey the battle's course concisely and clearly. A key read for those interested in military history or the period in general.
Book Synopsis Remembering the Battle of the Crater by : Kevin M. Levin
Download or read book Remembering the Battle of the Crater written by Kevin M. Levin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of the Crater is known as one of the Civil War's bloodiest struggles -- a Union loss with combined casualties of 5,000, many of whom were members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) under Union Brigadier General Edward Ferrero. The battle was a violent clash of forces as Confederate soldiers fought for the first time against African American soldiers. After the Union lost the battle, these black soldiers were captured and subject both to extensive abuse and the threat of being returned to slavery in the South. Yet, despite their heroism and sacrifice, these men are often overlooked in public memory of the war. In Remembering The Battle of the Crater: War is Murder, Kevin M. Levin addresses the shared recollection of a battle that epitomizes the way Americans have chosen to remember, or in many cases forget, the presence of the USCT. The volume analyzes how the racial component of the war's history was portrayed at various points during the 140 years following its conclusion, illuminating the social changes and challenges experienced by the nation as a whole. Remembering The Battle of the Crater gives the members of the USCT a newfound voice in history.
Book Synopsis The American Culture of War by : Adrian R. Lewis
Download or read book The American Culture of War written by Adrian R. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Culture of War presents a sweeping critical examination of every major American war since 1941. Timely, incisive, and comprehensive, it is a unique and invaluable survey of over sixty years of American military history.
Book Synopsis Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War by : Gregory Daly
Download or read book Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War written by Gregory Daly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a hot and dusty summer's day in 216 BC, the forces of the Carthaginian general Hannibal faced the Roman army in a dramatic encounter at Cannae. Massively outnumbered, the Carthaginians nevertheless won an astonishing victory - one that left more than 50,000 men dead. Gregory Daly's enthralling study considers the reasons that led the two armies to the field of battle, and why each followed the course that they did when they got there. It explores in detail the composition of the armies, and the tactics and leadership methods of the opposing generals. Finally, by focusing on the experiences of those who fought, Daly gives an unparalleled portrait of the true horror and chaos of ancient warfare. This striking and vivid account is the fullest yet of the bloodiest battle in ancient history.
Book Synopsis The Battle of Darkness and Light by : Dante Alighieri
Download or read book The Battle of Darkness and Light written by Dante Alighieri and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 8095 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited cothe collection of the world's greatest novels and stories with religious theme and spiritual messages: _x000D_ Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)_x000D_ Paradise Lost (John Milton)_x000D_ The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan)_x000D_ Zadig (Voltaire)_x000D_ Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Lew Wallace)_x000D_ Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz)_x000D_ In His Steps (Charles M. Sheldon)_x000D_ The Story of the Other Wise Man (Henry Van Dyke)_x000D_ The Ball and the Cross (G. K. Chesterton)_x000D_ The Enchanted Barn (Grace Livingston Hill)_x000D_ The Grand Inquisitor (Fyodor Dostoevsky)_x000D_ Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)_x000D_ Faust (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)_x000D_ The Holy War (John Bunyan)_x000D_ Callista: A Tale of the Third Century (John Henry Newman)_x000D_ Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Ancient Rome (James De Mille)_x000D_ The Temptation of St. Anthony (Gustave Flaubert)_x000D_ Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Mark Twain)_x000D_ Lord of the World (Robert Hugh Benson)_x000D_ The Child of the Dawn (Arthur Christopher Benson)_x000D_ Where Love is There God is Also (Leo Tolstoy)_x000D_ Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert (John Henry Newman)_x000D_ The Uncalled (Paul Laurence Dunbar)_x000D_ The Swamp Angel (Prentice Mulford)_x000D_ The Revolt of the Angels (Anatole France)_x000D_ The Mysterious Stranger (Mark Twain)_x000D_ The Sorrows of Satan (Marie Corelli)_x000D_ Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev)_x000D_ Lilith (George MacDonald)_x000D_ Grace (James Joyce)_x000D_ The Student (Anton Chekhov)_x000D_
Book Synopsis Campaigns on the North-west Frontier by : Hugh Lewis Nevill
Download or read book Campaigns on the North-west Frontier written by Hugh Lewis Nevill and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis North Carolina Reports: Devereux & Battle's Law by : North Carolina. Supreme Court
Download or read book North Carolina Reports: Devereux & Battle's Law written by North Carolina. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Battle of Jutland by : John Brooks
Download or read book The Battle of Jutland written by John Brooks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new account of the Battle of Jutland based on contemporary sources, examining the influence of technology, tactics and leadership.
Book Synopsis Battle Echoes by : George Barton Ide
Download or read book Battle Echoes written by George Barton Ide and published by Gale Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1866 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Battle of Berlin by : Martin W. Bowman
Download or read book The Battle of Berlin written by Martin W. Bowman and published by Air World. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating look into the aircrews used and the effect on those who had to live through this constant bombing” by the RAF during World War II (UK Historian). Berlin was bombed by four Allied air forces between 1940 and 1945. British bombers alone dropped 45,517 tons of bombs, while the Americans a further 23,000 tons. By 1944, some 1.2 million people, 790,000 of them women and children, about a quarter of Berlin’s population, had been evacuated to rural areas. An effort was made to evacuate all children from Berlin, but this was defeated by parents and many evacuees who soon made their way back to the city. However, by May 1945, 1.7 million people—40% of the population—had fled the city. This fitting tribute to those who died in the relentless struggle to knock Berlin, and hopefully Germany, out of the war resonates with eyewitness accounts and background information which the author has painstakingly investigated and researched. The result is a hugely fascinating and highly readable narrative containing very real and unique observations by British and Commonwealth aircrew and, equally importantly, the long-suffering citizens of Berlin, and well as the capital’s defenders. Though not a defeat in absolute terms, in the operational sense The Battle of Berlin was an offensive that Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris and his aircrews could not win. “Berlin won” concluded Sir Ralph Cochrane, the Air Officer Commanding 5 Group RAF Bomber Command. “It was just too tough a nut.” “An impressively informative, deftly written, exceptionally well documented, and expertly organized history . . . a seminal work of original scholarship.” —Midwest Book Review
Book Synopsis War and Peace in Europe 1815-1870 by : E. L. Woodward
Download or read book War and Peace in Europe 1815-1870 written by E. L. Woodward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1963: The three essays bound together in ths book are based upon lectures given by the author as a Univesity Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford. The Lectures were not intended as a substitute for the excellent textbooks of modern European history published in recent years. The choice of subject and more of treatment were determined by the questions of students and others attempting to find in this history of modern Europe something more than a chronicale of events, a list of dates and names, a catalogue of political and consititutional changes.
