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Author : Raymond Jubert
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Verdun (Mars-Avril-Mai 1916) written by Raymond Jubert and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm Brown
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750962518
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Verdun 1916 written by Malcolm Brown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1916 was a year of killing. The British remember the Somme, but earlier in the year the heart of the French army was ripped out by the Germans at Verdun. The garrison city in north-eastern France was the focus of a massive German attack; the French fought back ferociously, leading to a battle that would claim hundreds of thousands of lives and permanently scar the French psyche. To this day one can visit the site of ghost villages uninhabited since, but still cherished like shrines. Memories of Verdun would greatly influence military and political thinking for decades to come as both sides came away with memories of bravery, futility and horror. Malcolm Brown has produced a vivid new history of this epic clash; drawing on original illustrations and eye-witness accounts he has captured the spirit of a battle that defines the hell of warfare on the Western Front.
Author : Johnathan Bracken
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526710315
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Verdun Regiment written by Johnathan Bracken and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on French soldiers during WWI is “a first-class narrative with an abundance of personal testimony from the officers and men of the regiment” (The Great War Magazine, Editor’s Choice). Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little known to English readers. The immense size of the French armies, the number of battles they fought, and the enormous losses they incurred, make it difficult for us to comprehend their experience. But we can gain a genuine insight by focusing on one of the defining battles of that war, at Verdun in 1916, and by looking at it through the eyes of a small group of soldiers who served there. That is what Johnathan Bracken does in this meticulously researched, detailed and vivid account. The French 151st Infantry Regiment spent fifty days under fire at Verdun in 1916 and another thirty-five in 1917 and lost 3,200 soldiers killed or wounded. Yet their ordeal was no different from that of hundreds of other infantry units that fought and endured in this meat-grinder of a battle. Their diaries and memoirs tell their story in the most compelling way, and through their words the larger human story of the French soldier during the war comes to life. “The book recounts the horror of intense artillery bombardments and men mown down in great waves. None of this is particularly pretty and the accounts do much to scatter notions of war as a glorious, thrilling experience. It was vicious and brutal utterly cruel.”—War History Online
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Publisher : TheBookEdition
ISBN 13 : 2919549200
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (195 download)
Download or read book written by and published by TheBookEdition. This book was released on with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Ousby
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400075831
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Road to Verdun written by Ian Ousby and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 21, 1916, the Germans launched a surprise offensive at Verdun, an important fortress in northeastern France, sparking a brutal and protracted conflict that would claim more than 700,000 victims. The carnage had little impact on the course of the war, and Verdun ultimately came to symbolize the absurdity and horror of trench warfare. Ian Ousby offers a radical reevaluation of this cataclysmic battle, arguing that the French bear tremendous responsibility for the senseless slaughter. He shows how the battle’s roots lay in the Franco-Prussian war and how its legacy helped lay the groundwork for World War II. Merging intellectual substance with superb battle writing, The Road to Verdun is a moving and incisive account of one of the most important battles of the twentieth century. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Paul Jankowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199316899
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Verdun written by Paul Jankowski and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Jankowski offers a fresh look at Verdun, one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the First World War, in a book the will surely become the standard work on the topic.
Author : Christina Holstein
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473880378
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Verdun written by Christina Holstein and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Battle of Verdun specialist explores the lesser-known events of the left bank in this illustrated WWI history and battlefield guide. This fascinating study explores the background of the battle and casts light on the first three critical months of fighting there. It also explains fateful decision to change the original German offensive plan, extending the action to the Left Bank of the River Meuse. Using only original French and German sources, historian Christina Holstein describes the fighting on the Left Bank and follows the German offensive as it slowly pushed forward, taking three terrible months to reach its objectives: the two hills known as Cote 304 and the Mort-Homme, or Dead Man. The French defense of the Left Bank hills, described by Germans themselves as outstanding, is also covered in great detail. With intimate knowledge of the Verdun battlefield, Holstein describes the events in vivid detail and provides three walking tours through areas of the Left Bank rarely seen by visitors. This volume also contains more than 150 photographs, most of which have never been published before.
Author : Antoine Prost
Publisher : Berg
ISBN 13 : 184520896X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Republican Identities in War and Peace written by Antoine Prost and published by Berg. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antoine Prost's contributions to French history have enabled us to understand the failure of fascism in France and why the Republic survived the humiliation of occupation and collaboration in the Second World War. He is the pre-eminent historian of civil society in France. For the first time his seminal articles have been translated into English and collected in this single volume. Beginning with his classic account of war memorials, through his pioneering study of the people of a popular quarter of Paris in 1936, and of the troubled history of commemorating the Algerian war, this book expertly takes us through republican representations of war and peace, urban spaces and social identity, and discourse and social conflict in republican France. Amongst this range of topics, Prost considers the notion of social class and deference, the multiple uses of myth, the secularization of religious imagery, the centrality of primary schools in French political culture, and insults as staples of French political rhetoric. Included here are his famous essays 'Verdun' and 'War Memorials of the Great War', which have been hailed as indispensable additions to the study of European cultural history. Also notable is his fascinating investigation of rites de passage in Orléans, which artfully reveals how complex and semiologically rich rites de passage can be.This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to gain a firm understanding of the history of nineteenth and twentieth century France and of the work of one of the most influential cultural historians of our day.
Author : David Campbell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472838165
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book French Soldier vs German Soldier written by David Campbell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 21 February 1916, the German Army launched a major attack on the French fortress of Verdun. The Germans were confident that the ensuing battle would compel France to expend its strategic reserves in a savage attritional battle, thereby wearing down Allied fighting power on the Western Front. However, initial German success in capturing a key early objective, Fort Douaumont, was swiftly stemmed by the French defences, despite heavy French casualties. The Germans then switched objectives, but made slow progress towards their goals; by July, the battle had become a stalemate. During the protracted struggle for Verdun, the two sides' infantrymen faced appalling battlefield conditions; their training, equipment and doctrine would be tested to the limit and beyond. New technologies, including flamethrowers, hand grenades, trench mortars and more mobile machine guns, would play a key role in the hands of infantry specialists thrown into the developing battle, and innovations in combat communications were employed to overcome the confusion of the battlefield. This study outlines the two sides' wider approach to the evolving battle, before assessing the preparations and combat record of the French and German fighting men who fought one another during three pivotal moments of the 101⁄2-month struggle for Verdun.
Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The World Crisis: Verdun, Jutland, the Somme, and U.S. intervention written by Winston Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Walter Prothero
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A Select Analytical List of Books Concerning the Great War written by George Walter Prothero and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Architectural Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. War Office. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the War Office Library written by Great Britain. War Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
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Download or read book International Index to Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An author and subject index to publications in fields of anthropology, archaeology and classical studies, economics, folklore, geography, history, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, religion and theology, sociology and theatre arts.
Author : Albert Schinz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book French Literature of the Great War written by Albert Schinz and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Sumner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848842090
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book They Shall Not Pass written by Ian Sumner and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-05-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This graphic collection of first-hand accounts sheds new light on the experiences of the French army during the Great War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions and emotions of soldiers and civilians who were caught up in the most destructive conflict the world had ever seen. Their testimony gives a striking insight into the mentality of the troops and their experience of combat, their emotional ties to their relatives at home, their opinions about their commanders and their fellow soldiers, the appalling conditions and dangers they endured, and their attitude to their German enemy. In their own words, in diaries, letters, reports and memoirs - most of which have never been published in English before - they offer a fascinating inside view of the massive life-and-death struggle that took place on the Western Front. Ian Sumner provides a concise narrative of the war in order to give a clear context to the eyewitness material. In effect the reader is carried through the experience of each phase of the war on the Western Front and sees events as soldiers and civilians saw them at the time. This emphasis on eyewitness accounts provides an approach to the subject that is completely new for an English-language publication. The authorÍs pioneering work will appeal to readers who may know something about the British and German armies on the Western Front, but little about the French army which bore the brunt of the fighting on the allied side. His book represents a milestone in publishing on the Great War.
