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The Recollections Of Rifleman Bowlby

Author : Alex Bowlby
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474625479
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Recollections Of Rifleman Bowlby written by Alex Bowlby and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the great Second World War memoirs ... will be read as long as that war is remembered' John Keegan 'Extraordinary realism' SUNDAY TIMES 'A touch of the Somme and more than a hint of Wilfred Owen' TLS A classic of WWII, this is the vivid memoir of Private Bowlby, who came through the North Africa campaign only to have to battle in bitter fighting against a stubborn and skilled German defence in Italy. It is a truly authentic account of what it was like to fight your way through one of the most gruelling and dangerous campaigns of the Second World War, where so often the hunters became the hunted. A superb first-hand account of the the second world war.

Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby

Author : Alex Bowlby
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850521386
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby written by Alex Bowlby and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1969-09-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944, having distinguished itself in the North Africa campaign, Rifleman Bowlby's battalion of Greenjackets was sent to Italy. But instead of being used in the specialised role for which it had been trained, most of the battalion's vehicles were taken away on arrival, and the riflemen were told that they were to be used as ordinary infantry. Stripped of its hard core of regulars, the battalion suffered one disastrous defeat after another until its hard-won reputation fell in tatters. 'Quite extraordinary realism in this worm's eye view ... The sweating, slogging, frightened infantryman in conditions of extreme stress and horror. It is a book to bring a shiver to the most grizzled veteran.' Sunday Times

Recollections of Rifleman Bowl

Author : Alex Bowlby
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099785408
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Recollections of Rifleman Bowl written by Alex Bowlby and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1991-07-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Rifleman Bowlby's account of life in an infantry platoon in Italy in 1944. The battalion in which he served had been renowned throughout the 8th Army, but by the time it arrived in Italy it had been stripped of its core of regulars and its specialist role. Now used as heavy infantry, it lost its first battle, then its second, and the reputation that had taken three years to build fell apart in a few weeks. Only in its last battle, when it was smashed to pieces on the Gothic line, did the battalion regain its esteem.

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

Author : Benjamin Randell Harris
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474626327
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Recollections of Rifleman Harris written by Benjamin Randell Harris and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Describing narrow squeaks and terrible deprivations, Harris's unflowery account of fortitude and resilience in Spain still bristles with a freshness and an invigorating spikiness' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 'A most vivid record of the war in Spain and Portugal against Napoleon' MAIL ON SUNDAY Benjamin Harris was a young shepherd from Dorset who joined the army in 1802 and later joined the dashing 95th Rifles. His battalion was ordered to Portugal, where he marched under the burning sun, weighed down by his kit and great-coat, plus all the tools and leather he had to carry as the battalion's cobbler - 'the lapstone I took the liberty of flinging to the Devil'. Rifleman Harris was a natural story-teller with a remarkable tale to unfold, and his Recollections have become one of the most popular military books of all time.

A War of Nerves

Author : Ben Shephard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674011199
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book A War of Nerves written by Ben Shephard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of military psychiatry in the twentieth century. Both absorbing historical narrative and intellectual detective story, it weaves literary, medical, and military lore to give us a fascinating history of war neuroses and their treatment, from the World Wars through Vietnam and up to the Gulf War.

Recollections of Rifleman Harris

Author : Introduction by Sir Jo By Henry Curling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845749255
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Recollections of Rifleman Harris written by Introduction by Sir Jo By Henry Curling and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are many accounts of the Peninsular War by fighting men, this book is justly famed because it is a rarity: a memoir dictated by a ranker in Sir John Moore's army. At a time when many members of his class were illiterate, Benjamin Harris, a 'Dorsetshire sheep-boy' serving in the 95th Regiment of Foot from 1803 conveys the hard life of an old sweat fighting both the French and the Iberian climate in lively and vivid prose. Harris records the sicknesses and medicines suffered by ordinary soldiers; recounts the savage punishment of a fellow Rifleman, and the cut and thrust of military life from a distinctly worm's eye view, giving invaluable insights into the life of an ordinary soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. The book's editor, Henry Curling, persuaded Harris to recount his memoirs when he met him while Harris was working as a London cobbler in the 1830s. First published in 1848, this memoir remains one of the most valuable documents to have come down to us from the early Peninsular War.

Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95th) With Anecdotes of His Officers and His Comrads (Classic Reprint)

Author : Benjamin Harris
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267988457
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95th) With Anecdotes of His Officers and His Comrads (Classic Reprint) written by Benjamin Harris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95th) With Anecdotes of His Officers and His Comrads The following pages, describing the chee quered life of a private soldier, who served during the most glorious period of our military history, speak so plainly for them selves, as scarcely to need any introductory remarks from the editor, further than the assurance of his own sincere conviction of their truth. Such works as the narratives of Riﬂeman Harris, from the very nature of their details, afford occasionally more graphic sketches of the actual scenes of war, in its stern realities and concomitant circumstances, than the more stately and largely-grouped pictures of the Historian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Against All Odds!

Author : Bryan Perrett
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780225202
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Against All Odds! written by Bryan Perrett and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with unbelievable success. From the Napoleonic Wars to Korea, Bryan Perrett has found a further 13 dramatic military actions where a few fought against many, often with unbelievable success. The events take place in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America; they are linked only by the bravery and devilment which led military men to risk their lives for a last ditch attempt to advance their cause. Attending to the important facts and statistics required by the military historian, the author avoids invention and undue surmise whilst also avoiding the dry lecturing style found in so many volumes describing military strategy. The result is an absorbing, exciting and above all accurate account of astonishing battlefield warfare: narrative history of the sort at which Bryan Perrett excels.

Sea Harrier Over the Falklands

Author : Commander 'Sharkey' Ward, DSC, AFC, RN
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850523052
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Sea Harrier Over the Falklands written by Commander 'Sharkey' Ward, DSC, AFC, RN and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1993-08-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, "HMS Invincible", during the Falkland War of April to June 1982, and was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the command on the tactics, direction and progress of the air war. He flew over 60 war missions, achieved three air-to air kills, and took part in or witnessed a total of ten kills; he was also the leading night pilot, and was decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross for gallantry. But what, after all, could 20 Sea Harriers, operating from a flight-deck bucketing about in the South Atlantic, do against more than 200 Argentine military aircraft flown by pilots who, as the raids against the British shipping proved, displayed enormous skill and almost suicidal gallantry? The world knows the answer - now. What is puzzling, therefore, is this book's truthful depiction of the attitudes of some senior non-flying naval officers, and of the RAF, towards the men (and indeed the machine) that made possible the victory in the Falklands. This first-hand account charts, in detail, the naval pilots' journey to the South Atlantic, and how they took on and triumphantly conquered the challenges they faced. It is a dramatic story, leavened with accounts of the air-to-air fighting and of life in a squadron at sea and on a war footing. But it is also a tale of inter-Service rivalry, bureaucratic interference, and the less-than-generous attitudes of a number of senior commanders who should certainly have known better; indeed, some of them might even have lost the war through a lack of understanding of air warfare. The author attempts to put the record straight.

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

Author : Benjamin Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781515185611
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Recollections of Rifleman Harris written by Benjamin Harris and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorset , 1803. A shepherd's son is enlisted as a soldier of the Army of Reserve. His name is Benjamin Randell Harris, private of the 95th Regiment of Foot. The Recollections of Benjamin Harris are the classic memoirs of a foot soldier during the Napoleonic Wars, originally published in 1848. With personal anecdotes, quick wit and vivid descriptions, The Recollections of Benjamin Harris is one of the few surviving accounts of military service from the Napoleonic era. The memoir charts Harris's years of active service from joining the 95th Rifles in Ireland, to the Peninsular Wars of Northern Spain. Harris recollects the gripping campaign at Copenhagen, the engagement at the Battle of Rolica, the gruelling march to Salamanca and, finally, culminates with the Battle of Corunna. The Recollections of Benjamin Harris is a personal military account from the eyes of a foot soldier, and offers military history fans a unique insight into the Napoleonic wars. Praise for The Recollections of Benjamin Harris: "Wonderful memoirs... A piercing eye, a talent for description, and a constant good humour" - Bernard Cornwell Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95th)

Author : Benjamin Harris
Publisher : Echo Library
ISBN 13 : 9781406887099
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95th) written by Benjamin Harris and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harris (b. 1781) was an infantryman who served in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. He is most widely remembered today as the author of this memoir which gives a rare insight into the world of the enlisted man in Wellington's army. Most memoirs published after the war came from serving officers and the experiences of ordinary soldiers were overlooked due to widespread illiteracy at the time. Harris was himself illiterate but his recollections were recorded in the mid-1830s by an officer who knew him, Captain Henry Curling, who kept the manuscript until 1848 when he succeeded in publishing it.

The Veterans' Tale

Author : Frances Houghton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108758150
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Veterans' Tale written by Frances Houghton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique account of the ways in which British veterans of the Second World War remembered, understood, and recounted their experiences of battle throughout the post-war period. Focusing on themes of landscape, weaponry, the enemy, and comradeship, Frances Houghton examines the imagery and language used by war memoirists to reconstruct and review both their experiences of battle and their sense of wartime self. Houghton also identifies how veterans' memoirs became significant sites of contest as former servicemen sought to challenge what they saw as unsatisfactory official, scholarly, and cultural representations of the Second World War in Britain. Her findings show that these memoirs are equally important both for the new light they shed on the memory and meanings of wartime military experience among British veterans, and for what they tell us about the cultural identity of military life-writing in post-war British society.

Mud, Blood and Poppycock

Author : Gordon Corrigan
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780225547
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Mud, Blood and Poppycock written by Gordon Corrigan and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of how Britain won the First World War. The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up. Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young historians on the make. Gordon Corrigan's brilliant, witty history reveals how out of touch we have become with the soldiers of 1914-18. They simply would not recognize the way their generation is depicted on TV or in Pat Barker's novels. Laced with dry humour, this will overturn everything you thought you knew about Britain and the First World War. Gordon Corrigan reveals how the British embraced technology, and developed the weapons and tactics to break through the enemy trenches.

Countdown to Cassino

Author : Alex Bowlby
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473813360
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Countdown to Cassino written by Alex Bowlby and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1994-03-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the autumn of 1943 the German Bernhardt Line ran through Mignano Gap, 12 miles south-west of Cassino. XIV Panzer Korps was to make a stand there, holding up the advancing US 5th Army - two thirds American, one third British - whilst Cassino was being fortified. If the 5th Army broke through Mignano Gap before Cassino's fortifications were really strong, Allied armour would smash its way through the town and go on to take Rome. Drawing on the memories of veterans who fought at Mignano Gap, and on extensive archive research, this book presents a wide-ranging account of this major battle, and describes how close the 5th Army came to making the crucial breakthrough. The author served with the Green Jackets in World War II and his 1969 publication, "The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby", was republished 20 years later.

The Waterloo Roll Call

Author : Charles Dalton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Waterloo Roll Call written by Charles Dalton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dying for the nation

Author : Lucy Noakes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526135663
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Dying for the nation written by Lucy Noakes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities who have to find ways to manage death, to support the bereaved and to dispose of bodies amidst the confusion of conflict. It matters to the state, which has to find ways of coping with mass death that convey a sense of gratitude and respect for the sacrifice of both the victims of war, and those that mourn in their wake. This social and cultural history of Britain in the Second World War places death at the heart of our understanding of the British experience of conflict. Drawing on a range of material, Dying for the nation demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime and examines the experience, management and memory of death. The book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the social and cultural history of Britain in the Second World War.

Recollections Of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95Th) With Anecdotes Of His Officers And His Comrads

Author : Benjamin Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789354506963
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Recollections Of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95Th) With Anecdotes Of His Officers And His Comrads written by Benjamin Harris and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections Of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95Th) With Anecdotes Of His Officers And His Comrads has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.