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Book Synopsis The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918 by : Brad Chappell
Download or read book The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918 written by Brad Chappell and published by Ravi Rikhye. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A listing of every British Army infantry battalion in the Great War with raising date, formation to which attached, campaigns, and service. 440 content pages.
Book Synopsis The History of the 4th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry (T.A.) 1745-1945 by : Peter Kemp
Download or read book The History of the 4th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry (T.A.) 1745-1945 written by Peter Kemp and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Nineteenth Division by : Everard Wyrall
Download or read book The Nineteenth Division written by Everard Wyrall and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th (Western) Division, known as the “Butterflies” from its divisional sign, an open-winged butterfly, began to assemble on Salisbury Plain in September 1914, one of the divisions of Kitchener's Second New Army. It sailed for France in July 1915 and came under command of the Indian Corps, and at the end of August took over its first sector of line, Givenchy to Festubert, from the 7th Division. The division's first major taste of action was the battle of Loos, and although only one of its brigades was fully committed the overall casualties amounted to some 2,000. The division was at the Somme for the early battles of the offensive, its great achievement was the capture of La Boisselle after intensive fighting during the period 2–5 July. It was here that 34th Division had suffered the highest casualties of any division on the first day, 1 July, in a vain attempt to take the village. The cost to the 19th Division was around 3,500 and today their memorial stands in front of the village church. It was in this action their first VCs were awarded – three of them. In March 1917 the division made its first appearance on the Ypres front and in June distinguished itself at Messines, earning the congratulations of the Army Commander, Plumer. It remained in the salient throughout Third Ypres, its main effort being at the Menin Road battle, 20 - 25 September when its losses numbered just under 2,000. The division was again heavily involved in the German 1918 offensive, on the Somme, the Lys and down on the Aisne where it had been sent for a rest; the Germans struck there just after the division had arrived. Between the start of the German offensive, 21 March, and the end of May 1918 casualties totalled 11,250. During the final, allied advance to victory the division was not seriously engaged until the Battle of the Selle in mid-October. By the end of the war the casualty roll numbered 39,381. This is a very competent and well-written account of a division that was lucky enough to be led by two good commanders for most of its time on the Western Front – Tom Bridges and ‘Ma’ Jeffreys. The narrative is clear, easy to read and with good maps to back up the operational detail. There is are no casualty lists nor lists of honours and awards, but the citations of the eight VCs awarded are given. Unusually there is a section on personalities, comments (all favourable) on certain officers, mainly lieutenant-colonels and above. Changes in command at divisional and brigade level are shown as well as order of battle.
Book Synopsis The History of the 19th Division, 1914-1918 by : Everard Wyrall
Download or read book The History of the 19th Division, 1914-1918 written by Everard Wyrall and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book D-Day 1944 (3) written by Ken Ford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated and detailed study of the Sword Beach & the British Airborne Landings. At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at Bénouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers burst from it and stormed the bridge within minutes. The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe had begun. Within a few hours landing craft would swarm towards Ouistreham as British 3rd Division stormed ashore at Sword Beach. The battle would then begin to break through to relieve the paratroopers. In the third of the D-Day volumes Ken Ford details the assault by British 6th Airborne Division and the British landings on Sword Beach that secured the vital left flank of the invasion.
Book Synopsis Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot) by :
Download or read book Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot) written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in the Great War, 1914-1918 by : Walter de Burley Wood
Download or read book The History of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in the Great War, 1914-1918 written by Walter de Burley Wood and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War Vol 2 by : Capt H. FitzM. Stacke
Download or read book Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War Vol 2 written by Capt H. FitzM. Stacke and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the finest regimental history even written. A magnificent publication it is with its profusion of maps, illustrations and photos - each page of photos contains several. The Worcesters was one of the five regiments that had four regular battalions before the war, with two special reserve and two territorial battalions. By the end of the war another fourteen battalions had been raised for a total of twenty-two of which twelve went on active service. 9,460 officers and men gave their lives, 71 Battle Honours were awarded and eight VCs one of whom, attached to the RFC, was the airman Leefe Robinson, famous for shooting down a zeppelin. Battalions served on the Western Front, in Gallipoli, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Italy; one battalion ended the war in North Persia. Appendices provide the Roll of Honour; Honours and Awards including Mention in Despatches, with date of Gazette (for 'Companion' of the British Empire read 'Commander'); details of Badges, Colours and Distinctions of the regiment; and the music for regimental marches. Illustrations are by well-known artists depicting battle scenes including each VC-winning action - apart from Leefe's zeppelin. After considering various factors, explained in his very informative preface, the author decided to present this history as one general story in which the number of the battalion concerned is printed in the margin of the pages dealing with its deeds. Attention is paid to minor actions such as trench raids, which usually find no place in compressed official histories; they are recorded in this history. The plans illustrate the engagements recorded in the book, and are designed to depict the part played by the several battalions in their battles and to enable the visitor to the battlefields to recognise the ground on which each fight took place, as much as to make clear the general course of those actions. The book opens with a very interesting account of the regiment in the years before the war, beginning at the turn of the century, and there is a very comprehensive index of 25 pages. This is a great piece of work and must rank as one of the finest of the Great War regimental histories, many would say the finest, and I wouldn't argue.
Book Synopsis The Men Behind Monty by : Richard Mead
Download or read book The Men Behind Monty written by Richard Mead and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Men Behind Monty examines the role played by the staff in the victorious campaigns of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Britain's most successful field commander since the Duke of Wellington.??When Monty took command of Eighth Army in August 1942, he inherited the staff of his predecessor. He retained all the key members and most of them stayed with him not only from El Alamein to Tunis, but also in Sicily and Italy. When he took command of 21st Army Group in January 1944, many accompanied him to take up the most prominent positions on the HQ staff and the majority remained until the German surrender in May 1945.??This fascinating work focuses not only on the senior officers responsible for the various staff branches, and notably on Monty's outstanding Chief of Staff, Freddie de Guingand, but also on his personal staff, the ADCs and personal liaison officers.?The book sheds light on the work of the staff generally, and on their direct contribution to Monty's decisions, his sometimes difficult and controversial relationships with his superiors and allies.
Download or read book Somme 1916 written by Gerald Gliddon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set out topographically, it covers everything from the famous battle sites of High Wood and Mametz Wood to obscure villages on the outlying flanks. The British first began to take the Somme sector over from the French Army in June 1915. From this time onwards they built up a very close bond with the local population, many of whom continued to live in local villages close to the front line. The author draws on the latest research and analysis, as well as the testimony of those who took part, to present all aspects of a battle that was to become a symbol of the horrors of the Great War.
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Book Synopsis Battle for the Escaut, 1940 by : Jerry Murland
Download or read book Battle for the Escaut, 1940 written by Jerry Murland and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions along a 20-mile sector off the River Dyle, to await the arrival of the German Army Group B. Their expected stay was considerably shorter than planned as the German Army Group A pushed its way through the Ardennes and crossed the Meuse at Sedan, scattering the French before them. Little did the men of the BEF realise that the orders to retire would result in their evacuation from Dunkirk and other channel ports.The line of the River Escaut was seen as the last real opportunity for the Allied armies to halt the advancing German Army, but the jigsaw of defence was tenuous and the allied hold on the river was undone by the weight of opposing German forces and the speed of the armoured Blitzkrieg thrust further south. As far as the BEF were concerned, the Battle for the Escaut took place on a 30-mile sector from Oudenaarde to Blharies and involved units in a sometimes desperate defence, during which two Victoria Crosses were awarded. This book takes the battlefield tourist from Oudenaarde to Hollain in a series of tours that retrace the footsteps of the BEF. With the help of local historians, the author has pinpointed crucial actions and answered some of the myriad questions associated with this important phase of the France and Flanders campaign of 1940.
Book Synopsis Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List by :
Download or read book Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Smashing the Atlantic Wall by : Patrick Delaforce
Download or read book Smashing the Atlantic Wall written by Patrick Delaforce and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately after Hitler halted his proposed invasion of Britain in 1940, he secretly ordered the building of an Atlantic Wall. Using material from British, American, and Canadian archives, a top military historians pieces together a unique, barely known story from the war--and memorializes the Allied soldiers caught behind it in appalling conditions.
Book Synopsis Bulletin by : Military Historical Society (Great Britain)
Download or read book Bulletin written by Military Historical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A list of the general and field-officers, as they rank in the army [&c. The annual army list, with variations in title, orig. issued 'by permission of the Secretary at war' by J. Millan, and afterwards issued by the War office]. by : Army list
Download or read book A list of the general and field-officers, as they rank in the army [&c. The annual army list, with variations in title, orig. issued 'by permission of the Secretary at war' by J. Millan, and afterwards issued by the War office]. written by Army list and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Norfolk Regiment on the Western Front: 1914-1918 by : Steve Smith
Download or read book The Norfolk Regiment on the Western Front: 1914-1918 written by Steve Smith and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Smith tells the story of the five Battalions of the Norfolk Regiment who served on the Western Front using previously unseen photographs, diaries, accounts, and letters. He has also had full access to the Norfolk Regiment Museum archives. It is the men who served in the Norfolks who will tell this story. This book will interest readers nationally & locally as it not only studies the Regiment’s participation in well-known battles such as Ypres and the Somme, but also takes a fresh look at the lesser-known battles fought, battles such as Elouges in 1914 and Kaiserschlacht in 1918. Steve has considered the German perspective too, looking at the men who faced them at places such as Falfemont Farm in 1916. Using new evidence from the Regiment’s participation in the Christmas Truce, he separates the truth from myth surrounding the stories of football played at this time, a controversy that still rages. Steve has walked the ground over which they fought and fresh maps complement this research so the book serves as a history book for those at home and a guidebook for those who wish to get out and explore, down to trench level, the ground covered in its pages.
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