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Author : Charles Whiting
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book The Poor Bloody Infantry 1939-1945 written by Charles Whiting and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781862273771
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (737 download)
Download or read book Poor Bloody Infantry, 1939-1945 written by Charles Whiting and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody in the Second World War paid a higher price for the failure of politicians and generals than the infantry, whatever their nationality. Most battalions had a 100 per cent turn over due to casualties, some as high as 200 per cent. The majority of histories of the Second World War focus on what are perceived to be the more glamorous aspects of the conflict: flying aces, new technologies, politics. However, Charles Whiting's classic book, now reprinted in paperback is in the author's own words not a history. Poor Bloody Infantry is the story of the brave men whose efforts were so central to Allied victory but which has been gravely neglected by many writers on the Second World War. Whiting's vivid account of their experiences puts the reader in the thick of their struggles: firing useless Boyes rifles at oncoming SS tanks; crouching low in foxholes beneath a yellow incandescence as the surrounding dessert rocks and roars. Detailed and personal in scope, Poor Bloody Infantry deals with all aspects of the uncomfortable day-to-day life of infantrymen in the Second World War ranging from experiences in combat to such matters as foul tinned rations and VD.
Author : Charles Whiting
Publisher : Vintage
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Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Poor Bloody Infantry written by Charles Whiting and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1987 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The six year nightmare of World War II was nowhere more hellish than in the slit trenches -- living graves where distressingly callow infantrymen did their best to be heroes. Raked and pounded in the fields of Northern France, burned and bombarded in the Western Desert, steaming and rotting in the jungles of South East Asia, the P.B.I -- Poor Bloody Infantry -- saw the sharp end of war, far from home and often far from hope ... From the half-mad dream of training camps where they polished their insteps and scrubbed floors with toothbrushes, these young men in their field grey, olive drab and khaki ... had been sent packing into the teeth of the German war machine, waking up to the terrifying reality of the front, and sometimes the beyond of human endurance. They came face to face with their enemies as drawing room generals can never do, fought and died, rejoiced in their mates, sang songs, told black jokes and looked forward to the 'dixies' of stew, the postcards from home and the breathers between bombardments"--Jacket.
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Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Professional Journal of the United States Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Military Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Infantry written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dick Taylor
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399081063
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1939–1945 written by Dick Taylor and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in Dick Taylor’s three-volume illustrated history of the evolution of armored maneuver warfare in the British army covers the period of the Second World War, in which the tank came of age and developed into the principal land weapon of decision. He describes how, during the first half of the war, the British army came close to disaster from the armored warfare perspective and how the bitter lessons of failure were learned in time to deliver success in 1944 and 1945. As well as providing a fascinating overview of the tactical use of armor during the main campaigns, he considers such much-neglected aspects as the role of training and organization, officer selection and recruitment, and the mechanization of other arms. His wide-ranging book also features extensive, well-laid-out tables giving key information about British armor during this period. This expert account quotes heavily from the vivid recollections of soldiers who served in armor, and is not afraid to criticize as well as praise.
Author : Richard Doherty
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844684725
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book In the Ranks of Death written by Richard Doherty and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When war broke out in 1939 over 20,000 Irishmen were serving in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force with the greatest proportion in the Army. During the war this rose to over 120,000, suggesting that about 100,000 enlisted during the war. Nine earned the Victoria Cross; three members of the Royal Navy, including a Fleet Air Arm pilot, four soldiers, including a member of the Australian forces, and two RAF pilots. The author looks at the seven Irish regiments in campaigns across the globe, at Irish soldiers across the Army, at Irish sailors from the Battle of the River Plate to the final actions against Japan, and at Irish airmen from the first bombing raids of the war to the closing days of war. Included are outstanding personalities such as the Chavasse brothers, who earned three DSOs, three DSCs and two MiDs, Bala Bredin, Corran Purden, Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane, Blair Mayne and Roy Farran, the latter pair highly-decorated SAS officers. There are also Irish generals, such as Paddy Warren who died while commanding 5th Indian Division in Burma and Frederick Loftus Tottenham, who commanded 81st (West African) Division, not to mention giants such as Alexander, Auchinleck, Montgomery and McCreery. Irish women are not forgotten in the book which also takes a brief look at the Irish in other Allied forces, including a most unusual volunteer for the US Navy whose application to serve had to be approved by President Roosevelt. He was William Patrick Hitler, a nephew of Germany's führer.
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Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Review of Current Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larry Burchall
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126904112
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Emergence of Terrorism written by Larry Burchall and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are You Wondering If The World Is A Safer Or More Dangerous Place After September 11Th For You? Are You Wondering Just Who Could Be Against Us ? This Book Will Help Show You And Help You Work Out For Yourself, The People And The Nations That May Present Future Problems To You And Your Loved Ones. This Book Will Also Help You Understand Why?The Author Is An Ex-Professional Soldier. He Shows That Activists Caused Many Of The Changes Whose Benefits We Now Enjoy. He Shows That It Was Activists Who Did So Much Damage On 11Th September.He Shows The Link Between What S Called Activism And What S Referred To As Terrorism.Some Of The Ideas Set Out In This Book May Cause You Unease. You May End Up Feeling Concerned As The Author Describes The Workings Of The Powerful Modern Media And The Effects That Its Working Can Have On You. You'Ll Find A Description Of Just Who And What Constitutes The West And Westerners. Will The West Be Able To Put An End To Terrorism? You Ll Find An Interesting Answer In This Book.
Author : Douglas E. Delaney
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774845414
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Soldiers' General written by Douglas E. Delaney and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-doubt so plagued him that he suffered a nervous breakdown even before fighting his first combat action. But, by the end of the Second World War, Bert Hoffmeister had exorcised his anxieties, risen from Captain to Major-General, and won more awards than any Canadian officer in the war. Fighting from the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 to the final victory in Europe in May 1945, this native Vancouverite earned a reputation as a fearless commander on the battlefield – one who led from the front, one well loved by those he led. How did he do it? The Soldiers’ General explains, in eloquent and accessible prose, how Hoffmeister conducted his business as a military commander. With an astute analytical eye, Delaney carefully dissects Hoffmeister’s numerous battles to reveal how he managed and how he led, how he directed and how he inspired. An exemplary leader, Hoffmeister stood out among his contemporaries, not so much for his technical ability to move the chess pieces well; there were plenty who could do that. Rather, Bert Hoffmeister was exceptional for his ability to get the chess pieces to move themselves.
Author : Alan Allport
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300170750
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Browned Off and Bloody-minded written by Alan Allport and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport's rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.
Author : Nick Maddocks
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750954337
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The West at War 1939-45 written by Nick Maddocks and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West at War, due to accompany a major 6-part series for ITV1 West of England, produced by Testimony Films and to be broadcast across May/June 2005, commemorates the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II and features the stories of servicemen and women from Bristol and the South West.
Author : Dr Timothy Harrison Place
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135266492
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Military Training in the British Army, 1940-1944 written by Dr Timothy Harrison Place and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, the author traces the reasons for the British Army's tactical weakness in Normany to flaws in its training in Britain. The armour suffered from failures of experience. Disagreements between General Montgomery and the War Office exacerbated matters.
Author : Peter Caddick-Adams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190601884
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Fire and Steel written by Peter Caddick-Adams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume in one of the most acclaimed works of military history of this generation. Here is Peter Caddick-Adams' third volume in his trilogy about the final year of the Western front in World War Two. Fire & Steel covers the war's final 100 days-beginning in late January 1945 and continuing until May 8th, 1945, when the German high command surrendered unconditionally to all Allied forces. Caddick-Adams' previous two volumes in the acclaimed series-Sand & Steel, which covers the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, and Snow & Steel, the definitive study of the Battle of the Bulge, the German's final offensive in the war-have set the stage for this concluding volume. In these final months of World War Two, all of Germany is ablaze, from daily bombing runs launched from just across its borders and incessant artillery fire from the east. In the west, the Allied progress was inexorable, with Eisenhower's seven armies taking on Germany's seven armies, town by town, bridge by bridge. With his customary narrative verve and utter mastery of the material, Caddick-Adams does these climactic final months full justice, from the capture of the Ludendorff Railway Bridge at Remagen, to the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to the taking of Munich on Hitler's birthday, April 20th, and through to VE Day. Fire & Steel ends with the return of prisoners, demobilization of servicemen, and the beginning of the occupation of Germany. A triumphant concluding volume to one of the most distinguished works of military history of this generation.
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Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell Hart
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555879471
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (794 download)
Download or read book Clash of Arms written by Russell Hart and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning with an investigation of the interwar neglect that left the Allied militaries incapable of defeating Nazi aggression at the start of World War II, Hart examines the wartime paths the Allies took toward improved military effectiveness. He also explores the continuous German adaptation that prolonged the war and increased the price of eventual Allied victory.
