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Author : Cyril Field
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Britain's Sea-soldiers written by Cyril Field and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Frederic Jerram
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786446188
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book A Soldier Gone to Sea written by Charles Frederic Jerram and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir spanning nine decades, Lieutenant Colonel C.F. Jerram (1882-1969) of the Royal Marines recounts his life and military service through both world wars. Jerram describes in candid detail his late 19th-century childhood in Devon and Cornwall, the late Victorian and Edwardian Royal Navy, the Royal Navy's Far East Station, a traditional Corps of Marines, the Gallipoli Campaign, the World War I Western Front and the interwar and World War II years. His experience and insight convey two fundamental lessons: "Know thy profession and look after those for whom you are responsible." An essay by the editor, based on other sources, provides a broader perspective on Jerram, whose approach to professional military service is still pertinent today.
Author : James E. Wise
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Soldiers Lost at Sea written by James E. Wise and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Heroism, tragedy, devotion to duty, and scandal are just a few of the ingredients that make up this dramatic account of troopship losses in wartime. International in scope, the book offers a compilation of stories about historic troopship disasters caused by torpedoes, aerial attacks, mines, surface fire, foul weather, friendly fire, and poor planning by military decision makers ... Board of inquiry hearings, action reports, survivor debriefings, and personal correspondence collected from archives in Germany, Italy, Russia, Australia, Britain, and the United States help tell the stories of the fifty vessels described in the book. An introductory chapter provides an overview of troopship evolution and losses at sea, beginning with the age of galley warfare. The first to provide a sweeping survey of the subject, this book pays long overdue tribute to the soldiers who lost their lives in vast oceans far from home"--Dust jkt.
Author : T. Marmaduke Wybourn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sea Soldier written by T. Marmaduke Wybourn and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Hayward
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750968613
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Burn the Sea written by James Hayward and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the whole course of the war,’ conceded Britain’s chief press censor, ‘there was no story which gave me so much trouble as that of the attempted German invasion, flaming oil on the water and 30,000 burned Germans.’ Sparked by the Directorate of Military Intelligence and MI6, rumours that Britain had set fire to the English Channel to defeat a German invasion in 1940 quickly spread around the world. Highly popular in America, the incendiary ‘Big Lie’ became Britain’s first significant propaganda victory of the Second World War.Yet the unlikely deception was founded in fact. Dead German soldiers were washed ashore on British beaches, a secret Petroleum Warfare Department tested lethal flame barrages on land and sea, and fire ships were hastily dispatched to enemy ports as part of Operation Lucid. British intelligence agencies even managed to plant the burning sea story on their opposite numbers in Nazi Germany.Burn the Sea is the definitive account of the origin, circulation and astonishing longevity of the myth of the ‘invasion that failed’ in 1940, as well as its remarkable revival in 1992.
Author : Robert T. Harrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472590740
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Britain in the Middle East written by Robert T. Harrison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain in the Middle East provides a comprehensive survey of British involvement in the Middle East, exploring their mutual construction and influence across the entire historical sweep of their relationship. In the 17th century, Britain was establishing trade links in the Middle East, using its position in India to increasingly exclude other European powers. Over the coming centuries this commercial influence developed into political power and finally formal empire, as the British sought to control their regional hegemony through military force. Robert Harrison charts this relationship, exploring how the Middle East served as the launchpad for British offensive action in the World Wars, and how resentment against colonial rule in the region led ultimately to political and Islamic revolutions and Britain's demise as a global, imperial power.
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Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Marine Corps Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780966830
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Nelson's Navy written by Philip Haythornthwaite and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the many celebrated victories of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars, the role of the Royal Navy should never be overlooked. The 'wooden walls' formed the country's first and most important line of defence, and ranged throughout the world to protect Britain's trade-routes and in support of the land forces and overseas possessions. This book covers the huge variations in uniforms not just in the Navy but the Royal Marines and Infantry regiments which served alongside naval crews. It also looks at the organisation, training and recruitment of the force and corrects a number of misconceptions regarding impressment and training.
Author : Peter Hore
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473899788
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Trafalgar Chronicle: New Series 2 written by Peter Hore and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trafalgar Chronicle, the yearbook of The 1805 Club, has established itself as a prime source of information and the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian navy, sometimes also loosely called Nelson's navy. Successive editors have widened the scope to include all sailing navies of the period, while a recurring theme is the Trafalgar campaign and the epic battle of 21 October 1805. Contributors to The Trafalgar Chronicle have included leading experts in their field, whether they are Professor John Hattendorf from the US Naval War College in Newport, RI, Professor Andrew Lambert from Kings College, London, or antiquarians and enthusiasts. Each volume is themed and this new edition looks in detail at the Royal Marines and the United States Marine Corps. The RM were founded in 1664, but their ‘royal’ title was only granted to them on 29 April 1802. The USMC traces its roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence), when two battalions were formed by Captain Samuel Nicholas after a resolution of the Second Continental Congress on 10 November 1775. Both corps have similar duties, then and now, and in this volume there are newly researched articles about their common roles in the age of sail. The main piece has been written by Major General Julian Thompson, and there are leading articles by American and British scholars including Dr Charles P Neimeyer, the Director and Chief of Marine Corps History at Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia. There is also a unique autobiography by a marine who took part in the battle of Trafalgar, the War of 1812, the bombardment of Algiers and the First Ashanti War. Other issues are investigated, including Victory’s true colours in which Andrew Baines, Head of Historic Ships at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, describes the research which went into revealing how Nelson’s flagship looked in 1805. Scholars and students, experts and enthusiasts fascinated by the era of the sailing navy will be absorbed by this handsomely illustrated journal.
Author : Hugh John Casey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Engineers of the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1945: Amphibian engineer operations written by Hugh John Casey and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Army. Forces, Pacific
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Engineers of the Southwest Pacific, 1941-45 written by United States. Army. Forces, Pacific and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Engineers of the Southwest Pacific, 1941-45 written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Brooks
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844158691
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Tracing Your Royal Marine Ancestors written by Richard Brooks and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are interested in the career of an individual Royal Marine or just want to know more about the part played by the Marines in a particular battle or campaign, this book will point you in the right direction. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of the Royal Marines, their history or organization, Richard Brooks and Matthew Little explain which records survive, where they can be found and how they can help you in your research. They also describe in vivid detail the evolution of the Royal Marines, from the tentative beginnings of the service in the seventeenth century to their present position as a key part of the British armed forces.
Author : Harold E. Raugh
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461657008
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book British Military Operations in Egypt and the Sudan written by Harold E. Raugh and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Army's campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan from 1882 to 1899 were among the most dramatic and hard-fought in British military history. In 1882, the British sent an expeditionary force to Egypt to quell the Arabic Revolt and secure British control of the Suez Canal, its lifeline to India. The enigmatic British Major General Charles G. Gordon was sent to the Sudan in 1884 to study the possibility of evacuating Egyptian garrisons threatened by Muslim fanatics, the dervishes, in the Sudan. While the dervishes defeated the British forces on a number of occasions, the British eventually learned to combat the insurrection and ultimately, largely through superior technology and firepower, vanquished the insurgents in 1898. British Operations in Egypt and the Sudan: A Selected Bibliography enumerates and generally describes and annotates hundreds of contemporary, current, and hard-to-find books, journal articles, government documents, and personal papers on all aspects of British military operations in Egypt and the Sudan from 1882 to 1899. Arranged chronologically and topically, chapters cover the various campaigns, focusing on specific battles, leading military personalities, and the contributions of imperial nations as well as supporting services of the British Army. This definitive volume is an indispensable reference for researching imperialism, colonial history, and British military operations, leadership, and tactics.
Author : Dudley Pope
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755147650
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Life In Nelson's Navy written by Dudley Pope and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a well-researched and highly readable account of naval life, both ashore and at sea, from a respected and admired historian and writer of whom it was written: ‘An author who really knows Nelson’s navy’ (Ramage’s Prize - The Observer) and ‘An expert knowledge of naval history’ (Ramage at Trafalgar - The Guardian).
Author : James Ramsey Ullman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691198578
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1921, Volume 2 written by James Ramsey Ullman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War I the British government found itself deeply mired in a Russian civil war aimed at destroying the infant Bolshevik regime. A year later this effort was in shambles despite massive assistance from abroad. Anti-Bolshevik forces were in retreat and soon were completely annihilated. During 1919 the British government concluded that the costs of bringing down Bolshevism in Russia were prohibitively high. This book is an account of how this conclusion was reached, and of the conflict over Russian policy between David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. Richard H. Ullman is Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University. Published for the Center of International Studies, Princeton University. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : United States Naval Academy. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Naval Literature in the United States Naval Academy Library written by United States Naval Academy. Library and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
