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Tommy's War

Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 1785007645
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Tommy's War written by Peter Doyle and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War has left an almost indelible mark on history, with battles such as the Somme and Passchendaele becoming watchwords for suffering unsurpassed. The dreadful fighting on the Western Front, and elsewhere in the world, remains vivid in the public imagination. Over the years dozens of books have been published dealing with the soldier's experience, the military history and the weapons and vehicles of the war, but there has been little devoted to the objects associated with those hard years in the trenches. This book (new in paperback) redresses that balance. With hundreds of carefully captioned photographs of items that would have been part of the everyday life for the British Tommy; from recruiting posters, uniforms and entrenching equipment to games, postcards and pieces of 'trench art', this book brings to life the experience of the Great War soldier through the objects with which he would have been surrounded.

Great War Tommy

Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN 13 : 9780857332417
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Great War Tommy written by Peter Doyle and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War continues to fascinate, and never more so as we approach 2014, the centenary year of its outbreak. There is an abiding fascination in the uniform and equipment of the British Great War soldier. What was it like to wear? What were puttees? What does a gas mask look like? How heavy was the equipment? How did you dig a trench? These and other typical questions will be answered in Haynes Manual style, providing a vivid insight into life during the Great War for the average “Tommy Atkins."

Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007383487
Total Pages : 1093 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front written by Richard Holmes and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, Tommy is the first history of World War I to place the British soldier who fought in the trenches centre-stage.

Tommy

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Tommy written by Richard Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

British Tommy 1914–18

Author : Martin Pegler
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781855325418
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book British Tommy 1914–18 written by Martin Pegler and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1996-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I (1914-1918) was a watershed in British military and social history, and even now the repercussions can still be felt. No town or village in the British Isles escaped casualty, and the creative genius of a generation was wiped out, at an incalculable loss to society. This book looks in detail at how the British soldier lived, fought and died during the traumatic war years. Enlistment, training and all aspects of life on active service are carefully examined, including discipline, relaxation and even the type and quality of food that soldiers ate. The analysis of the British infantryman's experience is greatly aided by the memories of old soldiers, which provide an interesting and often vivid account of life on the Western Front.

Tommy

Author : Edward Richard Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Tommy written by Edward Richard Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007383487
Total Pages : 1093 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Tommy Goes to War

Author : Malcolm Brown
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784383309
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Tommy Goes to War written by Malcolm Brown and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the innocent British soldier (or Tommy) setting off with a spring in his step in 1914 to fight the Great War would not last long.Indeed that initial euphoria would soon give way to a deep-seated bitterness as these young men endured the horror of the First World War.In a new edition of this extraordinary book, the uncensored letters, diaries, documents and many photographs tell the story of the British soldier (nicknamed Tommy) in their own words.While there are flashes of their wit and humour, the overwhelming feeling is that of a generation who felt let down by their superiors and left to perish.There are visceral, terrifying insights into life in the trenches and agonising descriptions of the squalor and privations of war.This haunting account also looks at the aggressive drive to recruit more soldiers through the Pals Battalion or Chums Battalion. Friends from the same town or village; professional bodies, or work colleagues among others were encouraged to enlist en masse. They would fight together alongside their friends or colleagues. Many of them would sadly die together and leave communities wild with grief for a lost generation, robbed of a future having barely had a past.With a concise analysis of the British Army in the First World War, we are reminded of the terror of war, the fury, the fear and the frustration of what has been described by some as a war typified by the devastating assessment: lions led by donkeys.

Tommy 1914-1918

Author : Lawrence Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782352505037
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Tommy 1914-1918 written by Lawrence Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Teenage Tommy

Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473821754
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Teenage Tommy written by Richard van Emden and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Clouting was just sixteen years old when he embarked with the British Expeditionary Force for France in August 1914. The youngest man in the 4th Dragoon Guards, he took part in the BEF's celebrated first action at Casteau on August 22nd, and, two days later, had his horse shot from under him during the famous cavalry charge of the 4th Dragoon Guards and the 9th Lancers at Audregnies. Ben served on the Western front during every major engagement of the war except Loos, was wounded twice, and in 1919 went with the Army of Occupation to Cologne. The son of a stable groom, Ben was brought up in the beautiful Sussex countryside near Lewes and from his earliest years was, as he often said himself, "crazy to be a soldier". He worked briefly as a stable boy before joining up in 1913; his training was barely completed when war broke out. The Regiment, knowing Ben to be under age, tried to stop him embarking for France, but he flatly refused to be left behind. During the next four years, he served under officers immortalized in Great War history, including Major Tom Bridges, Captain Hornby, and Lieutenant-Colonel Adrien Carton de Wiart VC.Teenage Tommy is a detailed account of a trooper's life at the front, vividly recalling, for example, the privations suffered during the retreat from Mons. and later, the desperate fighting to hold back the German onslaught at 2nd Ypres. But this is more than just a memoir about trench warfare. Ben's lively sense of humor and healthy disrespect for petty restrictions make this an entertaining as well as a moving story of life at the front.

What Tommy Took to War

Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747814775
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book What Tommy Took to War written by Peter Doyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the centenary of the Great War comes this poignant look at fifty objects never far from Tommy's side – official uniform, good-luck charms, phrasebooks, a sweetheart's letter, some unexpected and others more familiar. With sumptuous original photography and thoughtful text, this is life as the ordinary First World War soldier knew it. Inside front: What Tommy Took To War tells sobering, fascinating stories that bring the ordinary Tommy's experiences back to life with poignant immediacy. With striking original photography by Chris Foster and expert text from noted historian Peter Doyle, it looks in detail at fifty objects that Tommy would have had in his kit and which would have accompanied, equipped and comforted him during his wartime ordeals: official uniform, training manual, cigarettes, good-luck charms, sweethearts' letters, foreign phrasebook and myriad others. Together, these artefacts give us a serious and informative, yet touching and even occasionally amusing, picture of the ordinary soldier's experience of the First World War.

The Last Fighting Tommy

Author : Harry Patch
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747593361
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Last Fighting Tommy written by Harry Patch and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary and moving story of a man, now aged 108, whose life has spanned six monarchs and twenty Prime Ministers .

Fritz and Tommy

Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750966629
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Fritz and Tommy written by Peter Doyle and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a war that shaped the modern world, fought on five continents, claiming the lives of ten million people. Two great nations met each other on the field of battle for the first time. But were they so very different? For the first time, and drawing widely on archive material in the form of original letters and diaries, Peter Doyle and Robin Schäfer bring together the two sides, 'Fritz' and 'Tommy', to examine cultural and military nuances that have until now been left untouched: their approaches to war, their lives at the front, their greatest fears and their hopes for the future. The soldiers on both sides went to war with high ideals; they experienced horror and misery, but also comradeship/Kameradschaft. And with increasing alienation from the people at home, they drew closer together, 'the Hun' transformed into 'good old Jerry' by the war's end. This unique collaboration is a refreshing yet touching examination of how little truly divided the men on either side of no-man'sland during the First World War.

Tommy Rot

Author : John Sadler
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752497405
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Tommy Rot written by John Sadler and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War 1914−1918 was dubbed the 'war to end all wars' and introduced the full flowering of industrial warfare to the world. The huge enthusiasm which had greeted the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 soon gave way to a grim resignation and, as the Western Front became a long, agonising battle of dire attrition, revulsion. Never before had Britain's sons and daughters poured out their lifeblood in such prolonged and seemingly incessant slaughter. The conflict produced a large corpus of war poetry, though focus to date has rested with the 'big' names − Brooke, Sassoon, Graves, Owen, Rosenberg and Blunden et al – with their descent from youthful enthusiasm to black cynicism held as a mirror of the nation's journey. Their fame is richly merited, but there are others that, until now, you would not expect to find in any Great War anthology. This is 'Tommy' verse, mainly written by other ranks and not, as is generally the case with the more famous war poets, by officers. It is, much of it, doggerel, loaded with lavatorial humour. Much of the earlier material is as patriotic and sentimental as the times, jingoistic and occasionally mawkish. However, the majority of the poems in this collection have never appeared in print before; they have been unearthed in archives, private collections and papers. Their authors had few pretences, did not see themselves as poets, nor were writing for fame and posterity. Nonetheless, these lost voices of the Great War have a raw immediacy, and an instant connection that the reader will find compelling.

Tommy's War

Author : Richard van Emden
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408844362
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Tommy's War written by Richard van Emden and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares excerpts from the personal diaries and photographs of British soldiers to depict the daily life of a Tommy in the trenches between 1914 and 1918.

Behind the Front

Author : Craig Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521837618
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Front written by Craig Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the vital relationships between British troops and local inhabitants in France and Belgium during the First World War.

1914 - First Blood

Author : John Hughes-Wilson
Publisher : Mereo Books
ISBN 13 : 1861512775
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book 1914 - First Blood written by John Hughes-Wilson and published by Mereo Books. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet T.O.M. Gunn at the start of World War 1, a young infantry lieutenant in the Sherwood Foresters, just back on leave from India as Europe catches ablaze in the chaotic summer of 1914. The British Expeditionary Force is off to France and Gunn is determined to join the war before it’s over. He joins a hastily formed mixed battalion of reservists, regular and territorial soldiers to find themselves pitchforked into the mayhem of the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne and then the drawn- out agony of Ypres as the high hopes of summer sink into the frozen trenches of the winter of 1914. But by the time of the Christmas Truce with the Germans, Thaddeus Gunn and his men begin to realise that this is going to be a long war? and they will be lucky to survive?