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Author : Sir William Beach Thomas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book With the British on the Somme written by Sir William Beach Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Beach Thomas
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282588304
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book With the British on the Somme (Classic Reprint) written by William Beach Thomas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from With the British on the Somme Because of this knowledge, or In spite Of it, no s1ngle deputy Of the German socialist group present at the conference could be persuaded to vote for a motion in favour of international, peace, though the discussion was purely abstract and academic. The pacifists themselves believed that the world could not compete with Krupp and the lesser Krupps in war as in peace, and had definitely, if not always consciously, accepted the policy of an aggressive war. They felt no doubt that a quick and thorough victory would follow and would ensue the paradise of world dominance. The prospect was too fair to reject. Even the best succumbed to the enticement of the dream. When August came the socialists in the Reichstag cheered the Chancellor to the echo. All the world that loved peace could do nothing else but fight a people Of such a mood and temper. 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.
Author : Philip Gibbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331175872
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (758 download)
Download or read book The Battles of the Somme (Classic Reprint) written by Philip Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Battles of the Somme In this book I have put together the articles which I have written day by day for more than three months, since that first day of July, 1916, when hundreds of thousands of British troops rose out of the ditches held against the enemy for nearly two years of trench warfare, advanced over open country upon the most formidable system of defences ever organised by great armies, and began a series of battles as fierce and bloody as anything the old earth has seen on such a stretch of ground since the beginning of human strife. Before July I I had an idea of writing a book about all that I had seen for nearly eighteen months, since I abandoned the hazardous game of a free lance in the war-zones of France and Belgium (to me those were the great and wonderful days) and became officially accredited as a correspondent with the British armies in the field. I had seen a good deal in the trenches and behind the lines - nearly all there was to see - of stationary warfare from Ypres to the Somme, and enough to understand with every nerve in my body not only the abomination of this doom which put fine sensitive men into dirty mudholes and sinister ruins, in exile from the comforts and beauty and decency of life, under the continual menace of death or mutilation, but also the valour of great numbers of simple souls who hated it all and yet endured it with a queer gaiety, and laughed even while they cursed its beastliness, and resigned themselves to its worst miseries like Christian martyrs with a taste for beer and the pictures of the "vie parisienne." 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.
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267426935
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Battle of the Somme, First Phase (Classic Reprint) written by John Buchan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Battle of the Somme, First Phase This transformation is one of the most striking that mankind has ever made, and the way of it, with some needed lessons in method and efficiency yet' to be learned, is an index of the peace-future of the British nation. 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.
Author : John Masefield
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265800096
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Battle of the Somme (Classic Reprint) written by John Masefield and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Battle of the Somme A moment before the whistles blew, in the morning of July 1, 1916, when the Battle of the Somme began, the No Man's Land, into which our men advanced, was a strip of earth without life, made smoky, dusty, and dim by explosions which came out of the air upon it, and left black, curling, slowly fading, dust and smoke-devils behind them. Into this smoke and dust and dimness, made intenser by the stillness of the blue summer morning, came suddenly the run of many thousands of men at the point of death. Not less than twenty thousand men clambered up the parapet at that instant. They tripped and tore through the wire, already in lanes, and went on to their fronts, into the darkness of death, cheering each other with cries that could be heard above the roaring and the crashing of the battle. On the instant, before all the men were out of the trenches. 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.
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528486811
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The Battle of Somme (Classic Reprint) written by John Buchan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Battle of Somme Roman highroads are the chief landmarks. At the lift of country between Somme and Ancre copses patch the Slopes, and sometimes a church spire is seen above the trees from some woodland hamlet. The Somme winds in a broad valley between chalk bluffs, faithfully dogged by a canal - a curious river which strains, like the Oxus, through matted rushy isles, and is sometimes a lake and sometimes an expanse of swamp. The Ancre is such a stream as may be found in Wiltshire, with good trout in its pools. On a hot midsummer day the slopes are ablaze with yellow mustard, red poppies, and blue cornflowers; and to one coming from the lush flats of Flanders, or the black country of the Pas de Calais, or the dreary levels of Champagne, or the strange melancholy Verdun hills, this land wears a habitable and cheerful air, as if remote from the Oppression of war. 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.
Author : Philip Gibbs
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666274168
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The Germans on the Somme (Classic Reprint) written by Philip Gibbs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Germans on the Somme But the months passed, and Verdun still held out above piles of German corpses on its slopes, . And in June Germany looked East and saw a great menace. The Russian offensive was becoming violent. German generals on the Russian fronts sent desperate messages for help. Send us more men they said and from the Western front four divisions containing 39 battalions were sent to them. They must have been sent grudgingly, for now another menace threatened the enemy, and it was on the Western side. The British Armies were getting ready to strike. In spite of Verdun, France still had men enough - withdrawn from a part of the line in which they had been relieved by the British - to co-operate in a new attack. It was our offensive that the German Command feared most, for they had no exact knowledge of our strength or of the quality of our new troops. They knew that our Army had grown prodigiously since the assault on Loos, ' nearly a year before. 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.
Author : Michelin and Cie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333163211
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (632 download)
Download or read book The Somme, Vol. 1 written by Michelin and Cie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Somme, Vol. 1: The First Battle of the Somme, 1916 1917; Albert, Bapaume, Peronne The objectives of the franco-british offensive were, to regam the initiative of the military operations; to relieve Verdun: to immobilise the largest possible number of German divisions on the western front, and prevent their transfer to other sectors to wear down the fighting strength of the numerous enemy divisions which would be brought up to the front of attack. Thanks to the immense effort made by the entire British Empire, their army had considerably increased in men and material, and was now in a position to undertake a powerful Offensive. 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.
Author : Martin Middlebrook
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473814243
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The First Day on the Somme written by Martin Middlebrook and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the British Army’s experience at the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I. After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7:30 AM on July 1, 1916, the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on that day, the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, two for every yard of their front. With more than fifty times the daily losses at El Alamein and fifteen times the British casualties on D-day, July 1, 1916, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. But, more than that, as Lloyd George recognized, it was a watershed in the history of the First World War. The Army that attacked on that day was the volunteer Army that had answered Kitchener’s call. It had gone into action confident of a decisive victory. But by sunset on the first day on the Somme, no one could any longer think of a war that might be won. Martin Middlebrook’s research has covered not just official and regimental histories and tours of the battlefields, but interviews with hundreds of survivors, both British and German. As to the action itself, he conveys the overall strategic view and the terrifying reality that it was for front-line soldiers. Praise for The First Day on the Somme “The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words.” —The Guardian (UK)
Author : John Buchan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267814633
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book The Battle of the Somme, Second Phase (Classic Reprint) written by John Buchan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Battle of the Somme, Second Phase Longueval. The danger now was that the Allied thrust, if continued, might show a rapidly narrowing wedge which would result in the formation of a sharp and precarious salient. 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.
Author : Harry Ernest Brittain
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267146512
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (465 download)
Download or read book To Verdun From the Somme written by Harry Ernest Brittain and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from To Verdun From the Somme: An Anglo American Glimpse of the Great Advance Nevertheless it gives me great pleasure to comply with the publisher's request, as it gives me an opportunity to express my deep appreciation of the many courtesies which I received in England and France on the occasion of my little journey to Mars, which Mr. Brittain's book records, and especially to express the Obligation under which I am to him for the admirable arrangements which he made for my trip to England and France. The subtle Disraeli was wont to say to those who sent him a book, that he was lying under a sense of obligation for the gift, but I am more fortunate in being able to express with entire sincerity an appreciation too deep for words of the abundant kindness which was shown to me by men of all classes in England and France. 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.
Author : Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332741458
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (414 download)
Download or read book When the Somme Ran Red (Classic Reprint) written by Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from When the Somme Ran Red This line was chosen with the greatest possible Skill. It followed the series of ridges and hills and thus gave command of the country to the west; in other words, any attack against the Ger mans would have to be made uphill, always a difficult undertaking. Besides the natural strength of the position the line was made still more secure by the employment of every device known to military science, SO that it was re garded as an almost impregnable system of trenches. This then was the line we were to at tack in July, 1916, largely with the idea of relieving the pressure that was being exerted against Verdun. 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.
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282515041
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1915 (Classic Reprint) written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1915 In the previous volume of this work. Which dealt with the doings of the British Army in France and Flanders during the year 1914. L ventured to claim that a great deal of it was not only accurate but that it was very precisely correct in its detail. This claim has been made good. For although many military critics and many distinguished soldiers have read it there has been no instance up to date of any serious correction. Emboldened by this I am now put x forward an account of the doings of 1915, which will be equally detailed and, as I hope, equally accurate. In the late autumn._s_ my the story up to the end of 19 6, the series of battles upon the Somme. 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.
Author : Alec John Dawson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282516444
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Somme Battle Stories (Classic Reprint) written by Alec John Dawson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Somme Battle Stories Just then; but there'd been a lot of rain, was omniping us pretty heavy all the time, but it didn't really matter, because for some reason he didn't seem to have got our range just right, and nearly all his. 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.
Author : Alastair H. Fraser
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844682706
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Ghosts on the Somme written by Alastair H. Fraser and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-04-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of the Somme is one of the most famous, and earliest, films of war ever made. The film records the most disastrous day in the history of the British army—1 July 1916—and it had a huge impact when it was shown in Britain during the war. Since then images from it have been repeated so often in books and documentaries that it has profoundly influenced our view of the battle and of the Great War itself. Yet this book is the first in-depth study of this historic film, and it is the first to relate it to the surviving battleground of the Somme.The authors explore the film and its history in fascinating detail. They investigate how much of it was faked and consider how much credit for it should go to Geoffrey Malins and how much to John MacDowell. And they use modern photographs of the locations to give us a telling insight into the landscape of the battle and into the way in which this pioneering film was created.Their analysis of scenes in the film tells us so much about the way the British army operated in June and July 1916—how the troops were dressed and equipped, how they were armed and how their weapons were used. In some cases it is even possible to discover what they were saying. This painstaking exercise in historical reconstruction will be compelling reading for everyone who is interested in the Great War and the Battle of the Somme.
Author : Robin Prior
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220286
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Somme written by Robin Prior and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite superior air and artillery power, British soldiers died in catastrophic numbers at the Battle of Somme in 1916. What went wrong, and who was responsible? This book meticulously reconstructs the battle, assigns responsibility to military and political leaders, and changes forever the way we understand this encounter and the history of the Western Front"--Publisher description.
Author : Michelin Et Cie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333485627
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (856 download)
Download or read book The Somme, Vol. 2 written by Michelin Et Cie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Somme, Vol. 2: The Second Battle of the Somme (1918); Amiens Montdidier Compiegne At different periods during the War, important events took place in the Plains of Picardy, in the region which extends between Amiens and St. Quentin, Bapaume and Noyon, between the valleys of the rivers Ancre, Avre and Oise. The franco-british Offensive of july-september 1916, and the German Retreat of March 1917, are described in the Michelin Guide The First Battle of the Somme, 1916 - 1917 which includes carefully prepared itineraries, enabling the reader to cover the whole battle field of that period. 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."
