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Letters From The Front Letters And Diaries From The Bef In Flanders And France 1914 1918
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Book Synopsis Letters From the Front: Letters and Diaries from the BEF in Flanders and France, 1914-1918 by : Kevin Smith
Download or read book Letters From the Front: Letters and Diaries from the BEF in Flanders and France, 1914-1918 written by Kevin Smith and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation raised on the British Empire confronted the unexpected horrors of modern war. Never were a nation's expectations so different from the coming clash of the First World War. Expecting a vigorous romp to victory, soldiers endured a brutal quagmire. Presenting letters & diaries of soldiers themselves, many unseen for nearly a hundred years, Smith allows men from Field Marshall "Douggy" Haig to plain Private Smith to have a clear voice. With enough narrative to recall how the Great War unfolded, a wealth of vivid detail brings the miserable life in the trenches back to life. What began with high hopes and horses ended with disillusion and tanks. From the build up at the beginning of the war until the immediate post-war reduction, Letters from the Front: Letters and Diaries from the BEF in Flanders and France 1914-1918 is enlivened with fascinating details and makes a moving, entertaining and informative read.
Book Synopsis Letters from the Front by : Kevin Smith
Download or read book Letters from the Front written by Kevin Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting letters and diaries from soldiers at the Front of the First World War, this book offers a firsthand narrative of how the War unfolded as well as a wealth of vivid detail of life at the Front.
Book Synopsis Friends in Flanders by : Linda Palfreeman
Download or read book Friends in Flanders written by Linda Palfreeman and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU) was created shortly after the outbreak of war. The idea of the unit's founder, Philip J. Baker, was that it would provide young Friends (Quakers) with the opportunity to serve their country without sacrificing their pacifist principles. The first volunteers went to Belgium on 31 October 1914, under the auspices of the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem. The FAU made a sustained contribution to the military medical services of the Allied nations, establishing military hospitals, running ambulance convoys, and staffing hospital ships and ambulance trains, treating and transporting wounded men. Determined to bring succour to all those in need, the FAU also assisted civilians trapped in the war zone and living in desperate circumstances. Nowhere was this more acute than in the besieged and battered town of Ypres where thousands sheltered in the underground passage-ways of the towns ancient fortifications -- a subterranean population, 'hopeless, often lightless,' wrote Geoffrey Young, the Units young field commander, living on what they might and breeding disease. The Unit provided hospitals for the treatment of civilians, and worked intensively in the containment and treatment of the typhoid epidemic that swept the region, locating sufferers, providing them with medical care, and inoculating people against the disease. It played a major role in the purification of the town's contaminated drinking water, distributed milk for infants and food and clothing to the sick and needy. It helped found orphanages, made provision for schooling and organised gainful employment for refugees until, finally, it became responsible for the definitive evacuations of the civilian population.
Book Synopsis The Last Great Cavalry Charge by : Joe Robinson
Download or read book The Last Great Cavalry Charge written by Joe Robinson and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of the Silver Helmets was an engagement orchestrated according to the previous successes of the cavalry of Frederick the Great. It was staged so that the magnificently equipped and trained German Fourth Cavalry Division would charge into glory, sabres rattling; instead, 24 German officers, 468 men, and 843 horses were lost during the eight separate charges conducted that day. The entire right wing of the Imperial German Army consisted of only nine cavalry brigades in the Schlieffen Plan, and in the battle of 12 August 1914, two of these brigades were catastrophically beaten. This battle has not yet been explored in the English language because it took place before the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) landed in the Channel ports and well before any American involvement. British historians have also generally focused on Germany s efforts to enter Belgium through the forts at Liège, which are east of Halen. However, the Battle of the Silver Helmets so impacted century-old cavalry tradition that large-scale charges would never again be attempted on the Western Front. Thoroughly researched and hugely revelatory, The Last Great Cavalry Charge is a blow-by-blow account of the moment that the cavalry went from a prestigious, pivotal role in German Army tactics to obsolescence in the face of newly mechanised infantry. It provides essential and moving insight into the wider socio-cultural repercussions of technical military innovations in the First World War.
Book Synopsis Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ... by : British Museum
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ... written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Subject Index of the Books Relating to the European War, 1914-1918 by : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Download or read book Subject Index of the Books Relating to the European War, 1914-1918 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library by :
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired by : British Library
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis List of Accessions to Repositories by : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Download or read book List of Accessions to Repositories written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis List of Accessions to Repositories by : Great Britain. National Register of Archives
Download or read book List of Accessions to Repositories written by Great Britain. National Register of Archives and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Accessions to Repositories and Reports Added to the National Register of Archives by : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Download or read book Accessions to Repositories and Reports Added to the National Register of Archives written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vain Glory written by Guy Chapman and published by London Cassell [1937]. This book was released on 1937 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vain Glory: a Miscellany of the Great War 1914-1938 by : Guy Chapman
Download or read book Vain Glory: a Miscellany of the Great War 1914-1938 written by Guy Chapman and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1968 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vain Glory is one of the great anthologies. It reflects the direct experience of the men who fought, died or lived on against the odds from the Battle of the Marne in 1914 to the Armistice of 1918"--Jacket flap.
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Book Synopsis Letters from the Trenches by : Jacqueline Wadsworth
Download or read book Letters from the Trenches written by Jacqueline Wadsworth and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families.??Letters from the Trenches reveals how people really thought and felt during the conflict and covers all social classes and groups Ð from officers to conscripts and women at home to conscientious objectors.??Voices within the book include Sergeant John Adams, 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers, who wrote in May 1917:'For the day we get our letter from home is a red Letter day in the history of the soldier out here. It is the only way we can hear what is going on. The slender thread between us and the homeland.'??Private Stanley Goodhead, who served with one of the Manchester Pals battalion, wrote home in 1916: 'I came out of the trenches last night after being in 4 days. You have no idea what 4 days in the trenches means...The whole time I was in I had only about 2 hours sleep and that was in snatches on the firing step. What dugouts there are, are flooded with mud and water up to the knees and the rats hold swimming galas in them...We are literally caked with brown mud and it is in all?our food, tea etc.'??Jacqueline Wadsworth skilfully uses these letters to tell the human story of the First World War Ð what mattered to Britain's servicemen and their feelings about the war; how the conflict changed people; and how life continued on the Home Front.
Book Synopsis Reluctant Warriors by : Patrick M. Dennis
Download or read book Reluctant Warriors written by Patrick M. Dennis and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the “Hundred Days” campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, they were generally considered slackers for not having volunteered to fight. Reluctant Warriors is the first examination of the pivotal role played by Canadian conscripts in the final campaign of the Great War on the Western Front. Challenging long-standing myths about conscripts, Patrick Dennis examines whether these men arrived at the right moment, and in sufficient numbers, to make any significant difference to the success of the Canadian Corps. He examines the conscripts themselves, their journey to war, the battles in which they fought, and their largely undocumented sacrifice and heroism. Reluctant Warriors sheds new light on the success of the Military Service Act and provides fresh evidence that conscripts were good soldiers who fought valiantly and made a crucial contribution to the war effort.
Download or read book Mud & Bodies written by Saul David and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Weir died in 1967, but it was not until 2009 that his grandson, Mike Burns, discovered his diary among some boxes he had been left, and learnt that his grandfather had served as an officer in the 10th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlander throughout the First World War, seeing action at Loos, the Somme and Vimy Ridge, as well as in staff and training posts. It ends with his work at the War Office during the Russian Civil War of 191920. In the diary, and the accompanying letters which have been collected from various members of the Weir family, we hear the authentic voice of a First World War soldier and get an insight into his experiences on the Western Front and elsewhere. Edited and with introductory text by Saul David, this book is one of the most fascinating accounts ever published of the First World War as experienced by the men who fought it.
