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Book Synopsis Subterranean Sappers by : Iain McHenry
Download or read book Subterranean Sappers written by Iain McHenry and published by Uniform. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of a military tunnelling company published since the 1920's, Subterranean Sappers is a comprehensive survey of the 177 Tunnelling Company and the crucial role that they played during World War I. It details the entire history of the Company, from its formation on the Western Front in 1915 to the reasons for its eventual disbandment after the war. There is also a close study of the men of all ranks who made up the Company, including where they were from and what specific roles they played in tunnelling operations. Iain McHenry focuses heavily on the daily struggle the Company faced underground, due to the ever-present mine threat from the Germans, and details the tunnel systems and dugouts they constructed, with accompanying color plans. He also includes tense first-hand accounts of hand-to-hand altercations with German soldiers that occurred underground. Most important, Subterranean Sappers explains the vital role of tunneling companies in the greater scheme of the war and offers fascinating details on an understudied military tactic, which will be of interest to war historians and tourists alike.
Book Synopsis First World War Uniforms by : Catherine Price-Rowe
Download or read book First World War Uniforms written by Catherine Price-Rowe and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View any image of a Tommy and his uniform becomes an assumed item, few would consider where and how that uniform was made. Over 5 million men served on the Western Front, they all required clothing. From August 1914 to March 1919, across all theaters of operations, over 28 million pairs of trousers and c.360 million yards of various cloth was manufactured.Worn by men of all ranks the uniform created an identity for the fighting forces, distinguished friend from foe, gave the enlisted man respect, a sense of unity whilst at the same time stripping away his identity, turning a civilian into a soldier. Men lived, worked, slept, fought and died in their uniform.Using the authors great-grandfather's war service as a backdrop, this book will uncover the textile industries and home front call to arms, the supply chain, salvage and repair workshops in France, and how soldiers maintained their uniform on the front line.Items of a soldiers uniform can become a way to remember and are often cherished by families, creating a tangible physical link with the past, but the durability of cloth to withstand time can create an important legacy. The fallen are still discovered today and remnants of uniform can help to identify them, at the very least the color of cloth or type of hob nail can give the individual his nationality allowing them to be given a final resting place.
Book Synopsis Directing the Tunnellers' War by : Phillip Robinson
Download or read book Directing the Tunnellers' War written by Phillip Robinson and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-hand account of the underground work of the First World War—from the firing of mines to constructing subways to bureaucratic mishaps. With a background in mining and tunneling, Major H. R. Dixon was transferred to GHQ in Montreuil to handle mining plans and records. In due course he was appointed to a small group of Royal Engineers’ officers who operated as the eyes and ears of the Inspector of Mines. His activity in this role is particularly important for the period after the June 1917 Messines Offensive, when the use of mining for blows against the enemy substantially diminished—indeed, all but disappeared—and the tunneling companies were reallocated to a new range of tasks. Dixon was at the centre of staff activity that set about countering the effects of the German Kaiserslacht offensives in March, April and May 1918, and the preparations for a possible German breakthrough to the channel ports. Subsequently, with the allied advances of the ‘Last Hundred Days’, he became considerably occupied by the hazards of dealing with delayed action mines and booby traps. His manuscript, produced in 1933, remained no more than a draft until it was rescued some time ago by one of the editors from the Royal Engineers’ archives at Chatham. It recounts, by means of numerous humorous anecdotes, the personalities and work of the staff at GHQ, ranging from humble clerks and the misdemeanors of his batman to senior officers. He brings to life the exceptional endeavours of the often maligned senior staff and the individual characteristics of many senior staff officers who are otherwise but shadows in accounts of the Great War.
Book Synopsis The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton (Vol. 1&2) by : Lady Isabel Burton
Download or read book The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton (Vol. 1&2) written by Lady Isabel Burton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 1613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton is a 2 volumes biography of a British explorer, writer, ethnologist, spy, Freemason, and diplomat, written by his wife Lady Isabel Burton. Burton was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. Burton's travels and services were widely known and popular, so the author's main goal was to show the real man beneath the cultivated mask that generally hid all feelings and belief. Lady Isabel tells the story of her husband and his achievements through the story of their common life, providing some exclusive information from their private life and showing side of his life that was not known to the public.
Book Synopsis Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po by : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Download or read book Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po by : Richard Francis Burton
Download or read book Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po written by Richard Francis Burton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.
Book Synopsis The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton by : Isabel Burton
Download or read book The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton written by Isabel Burton and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton by Isabel Burton
Book Synopsis New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register by :
Download or read book New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis “The” Life of Captain Sir Rich F. Burton by : Isabel Burton
Download or read book “The” Life of Captain Sir Rich F. Burton written by Isabel Burton and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist by :
Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton by : Lady Isabel Burton
Download or read book The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton written by Lady Isabel Burton and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This is Tomorrow written by Michael Bird and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This is Tomorrow Michael Bird takes a fresh look at the long twentieth century, from the closing years of Queen Victorias reign to the turn of the millennium, through the lens of the artists who lived and worked in this ever-changing Britain. Bird examines how the rhythms of change and adaptation in art became embedded in the collective consciousness of the nation and vividly evokes the personalities who populate and drive this story, looking beyond individual careers and historical moments to weave together interconnecting currents of change that flowed through London, Glasgow, Leeds, Cornwall, the Caribbean, New York, Moscow and Berlin. From the American James McNeill Whistlers defence of his new kind of modern art against the British art establishment in the latter half of the 19th century to the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliassons melting icebergs in London, he traverses the lives of the artists that have recorded, questioned and defined our times. At the heart of this original book are the successive waves of displacement caused by global wars and persecution that conversely brought fresh ideas and new points of view to the British Isles; educational reforms opened new routes for young people from working-class backgrounds; movements of social change enabled the emergence of female artists and artists of colour; and the emergence of the mass media shaped modern modes of communication and culture. These are the ebbs and flows that Michael Bird teases out in this panoramic account of Britain and its artists in across the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Eyewitnesses to the Great War by : Ed Klekowski
Download or read book Eyewitnesses to the Great War written by Ed Klekowski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the novelist Edith Wharton, who toured the front in her Mercedes in 1915, this book describes the wartime experiences of American idealists (and a few rogues) on the Western Front and concludes with the doughboys' experiences under General Pershing. Americans were "over there" from the war's beginning in August 1914, and because America was neutral until April 1917, they saw the war from both the French and German lines. Since most of the Americans who served, regardless of which side they were on, were in Champagne and Lorraine, this sector is the focus. Excerpts from memoirs are supplemented by descriptions of personalities, places, battles and even equipment and weapons, thus placing these generally forgotten American adventurers into the context of their times. A special set of maps based upon German Army battle maps was drawn and rare photographs supplement the text.
Book Synopsis The History of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners by : Thomas William John Connolly
Download or read book The History of the Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners written by Thomas William John Connolly and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Royal Sappers and Miners by : Thomas William John Connolly
Download or read book History of the Royal Sappers and Miners written by Thomas William John Connolly and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis With a Royal Engineers Field Company in France & Italy by : V F Eberle
Download or read book With a Royal Engineers Field Company in France & Italy written by V F Eberle and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VF Eberle MC joined up on the outbreak of the war in No 2 Field Company Royal Engineers, 48th (South Midland) Division, the same company as his brother, who was a captain in it. He was commissioned before sailing for France at the end of March 1915 and remained with it for the rest of the war. In that time he saw action on the Somme and in the Advance to the Hindenburg Line before his Division took part for most of the Battle of Third Ypres (Passchendaele). Transferred to Italy at the end of 1917, he took part in the final stages of the war, including the Battle of Asiago. Besides his eloquent description of the work of a field company RE, he spends some time in outlining his role in the development of the Bangalore Torpedo. Based on his war time letters, diaries and records - which can now be consulted in the Imperial War Museum, it gives a detailed picture of the employment of a field company in war, both during periods of relative tranquility as well as during major offensives. There are relatively few memoirs of Royal Engineers' officers, especially of those in his position, so close to the line. The memoirs benefit from his key eye for observation and his skilful use of the material available to him, making this a fine addition to the literature of the Great War.
