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Author : Terence R. Blackburn
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788131304112
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Extermination of a British Army written by Terence R. Blackburn and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Travers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473819431
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Killing Ground written by Tim Travers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the army, especially the senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare and asks: Was the style of warfare on the Western Front inevitable?Using an extensive range of unpublished diaries, letters, memoirs and Cabinet and War Office files, Professor Travers explains how and why the ideas, tactics and strategies emerged. He emphasises the influence of pre-war social and military attitudes, and examines the early life and career of Sir Douglas Haig. The author's analysis of the preparations for the Battles of the Somme and Passchendaele provide new interpretations of the role of Haig and his GHQ, and he explains the reasons for the unexpected British withdrawal in March 1918. An appendix supplies short biographies of senior British officers. In general, historians of the First World War are in two hostile camps: those who see the futility of lions led by donkeys on the one hand and on the other the apologists for Haig and the conduct of the war. Professor Travers' immensely readable book provides a bridge between the two.
Author : Tim Travers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844158896
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book The Killing Ground written by Tim Travers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the army, especially the senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare and asks: Was the style of warfare on the Western Front inevitable? Using an extensive range of unpublished diaries, letters, memoirs and Cabinet and War Office files, Professor Travers explains how and why the ideas, tactics and strategies emerged. He emphasises the influence of pre-war social and military attitudes, and examines the early life and career of Sir Douglas Haig. The author's analysis of the preparations for the Battles of the Somme and Passchendaele provide new interpretations of the role of Haig and his GHQ, and he explains the reasons for the unexpected British withdrawal in March 1918. An appendix supplies short biographies of senior British officers. In general, historians of the First World War are in two hostile camps: those who see the futility of lions led by donkeys on the one hand and on the other the apologists for Haig and the conduct of the war. Professor Travers' immensely readable book provides a bridge between the two.
Author : Timothy Travers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780044457367
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (573 download)
Download or read book The Killing Ground written by Timothy Travers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1990 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explanation of why the British army fought the way it did in World War I. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the British army, especially senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare of the early 20th century.
Author : Timothy Travers
Publisher : Unwin Hyman
ISBN 13 : 9780415104487
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Killing Ground written by Timothy Travers and published by Unwin Hyman. This book was released on 1990 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study integrates social and military history to tell the story of how the British Army, particularly its senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare of the early 20th century.
Author : A. T. Williams
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099575115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book A Very British Killing written by A. T. Williams and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 14 September 2003 Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist, was arrested in Basra by British troops and taken to a military base for questioning. Less than forty-eight hours later he was dead. This book tells the inside story of this crime and its aftermath.
Author : Mitchell A. Yockelson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806155604
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Borrowed Soldiers written by Mitchell A. Yockelson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant attention from historians. Mitchell A. Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years before D-Day. He follows the two divisions that constituted II Corps, the 27th and 30th, from the training camps of South Carolina to the bloody battlefields of Europe. Despite cultural differences, General Pershing’s misgivings, and the contrast between American eagerness and British exhaustion, the untested Yanks benefited from the experience of battle-toughened Tommies. Their combined forces contributed much to the Allied victory. Yockelson plumbs new archival sources, including letters and diaries of American, Australian, and British soldiers to examine how two forces of differing organization and attitude merged command relationships and operations. Emphasizing tactical cooperation and training, he details II Corps’ performance in Flanders during the Ypres-Lys offensive, the assault on the Hindenburg Line, and the decisive battle of the Selle. Featuring thirty-nine evocative photographs and nine maps, this account shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. A case study of coalition warfare, Borrowed Soldiers adds significantly to our understanding of the Great War.
Author : Chris Chilcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (778 download)
Download or read book 'a Killing a Day' written by Chris Chilcott and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the British army of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars soldiers of many ranks and backgrounds were hungry, dressed in sometimes tattered uniforms and slept in the open. Looking after soldiers also went beyond food and uniform, or even guns and tents. They required chaplains, medical services and education, and what of the wives and children who followed them even as they deployed overseas? This had implication for resources and ultimately strategy and would form a keystone in plans to oppose a French invasion. How to maintain the army was a vital question for early nineteenth century Britain. The answer was defined by events that occurred 200 years earlier and have continued into the present day. This a story not of what was carried out to supply the army but what was not and the impact of this on soldiers and strategy. Chapters: 'A system created from fear': events in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on the British state and also its relationship with the army. This would have significant consequences for the systems used to supply the force. 'The Treasury goes to war': the activities of the Commissariat. This was the main organisation responsible for supplying the army but despite being deployed on campaign was a civilian organisation. The Commissariat had a massive task but would not prove able to meet the challenge. 'Third in line': supplying the army with guns, uniform and accommodation. The army found itself in direct competition with the Royal Navy and allied armies for many of its needs and the industrial and financial strength of Britain would be stretched to its limit. 'From A to B: Transport': the Royal Wagon Train did not even exist prior to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. By 1815 it had grown considerably from humble origins but was not the sole organisation responsible for operating wagons, horses and mules in the army. There was to be a constant battle for resources and the support of Spanish and Portuguese personnel would prove vital to British logistics in Spain and Portugal. 'A moral dimension': Not everything required by the army could be put on a wagon. Medical, chaplain and education services would all be a vital part of life for soldiers. The necessity to meet the needs of the families of soldiers on campaign would prove to be a success for the system in the period. Counties versus Napoleon: English counties, logistics and plans to resist an invasion. Supply was at the heart of plans to resist a French invasion. Many freedoms and liberties were to be sacrificed, property requisitioned and whole communities evacuated to halt a French invasion
Author : Timothy Travers
Publisher : Pen & Sword Books
ISBN 13 : 9781473800113
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Killing Ground written by Timothy Travers and published by Pen & Sword Books. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: London: Allen & Unwin, 1987.
Author : Simon Akam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922310279
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Changing of the Guard written by Simon Akam and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the British military today. Over the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Britain has changed enormously. During this time, the British Army fought two campaigns, in Iraq and Afghanistan, at considerable financial and human cost. Yet neither war achieved its objectives. This book questions why, and provides challenging but necessary answers. Composed of assiduous documentary research, field reportage, and hundreds of interviews with many soldiers and officers who served, as well as the politicians who directed them, the allies who accompanied them, and the family members who loved and -- on occasion -- lost them, it is a strikingly rich, nuanced portrait of one of our pivotal national institutions in a time of great stress. Award-winning journalist Simon Akam, who spent a year in the army when he was 18, returned a decade later to see how the institution had changed. His book examines the relevance of the armed forces today -- their social, economic, political, and cultural role. This is as much a book about Britain, and about the politics of failure, as it is about the military.
Author : Jimmy Breslin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book World Without End, Amen written by Jimmy Breslin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter R. Mansoor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485731
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Culture of Military Organizations written by Peter R. Mansoor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how military culture forms and changes, as well as its impact on the effectiveness of military organizations.
Author : Chima J. Korieh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425801
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Nigeria and World War II written by Chima J. Korieh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
Author : Mike Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199387982
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book An Intimate War written by Mike Martin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Intimate War tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghani- stan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined through different lenses - the Soviet intervention, the civil war, the Taliban, and the post-2001 nation-building era. Yet, as experienced by local inhabitants, the Helmand conflict is a perennial one, involving the same individuals, families and groups, and driven by the same arguments over land, water and power. This book - based on both military and re- search experience in Helmand and 150 inter- views in Pashto - offers a very different view of Helmand from those in the media. It demonstrates how outsiders have most often misunderstood the ongoing struggle in Helmand and how, in doing so, they have exacerbated the conflict, perpetuated it and made it more violent - precisely the opposite of what was intended when their interventions were launched. Mike Martin's oral history of Helmand under- scores the absolute imperative of understanding the highly local, personal, and non-ideological nature of internal conflict in much of the 'third' world.
Author : Jess Melvin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351273302
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book The Army and the Indonesian Genocide written by Jess Melvin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past half century, the Indonesian military has depicted the 1965-66 killings, which resulted in the murder of approximately one million unarmed civilians, as the outcome of a spontaneous uprising. This formulation not only denied military agency behind the killings, it also denied that the killings could ever be understood as a centralised, nation-wide campaign. Using documents from the former Indonesian Intelligence Agency’s archives in Banda Aceh this book shatters the Indonesian government’s official propaganda account of the mass killings and proves the military’s agency behind those events. This book tells the story of the 3,000 pages of top-secret documents that comprise the Indonesian genocide files. Drawing upon these orders and records, along with the previously unheard stories of 70 survivors, perpetrators, and other eyewitness of the genocide in Aceh province it reconstructs, for the first time, a detailed narrative of the killings using the military’s own accounts of these events. This book makes the case that the 1965-66 killings can be understood as a case of genocide, as defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention. The first book to reconstruct a detailed narrative of the genocide using the army’s own records of these events, it will be of interest to students and academics in the field of Southeast Asian Studies, History, Politics, the Cold War, Political Violence and Comparative Genocide.
Author : Edward Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786941039
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book An Army of Tribes written by Edward Burke and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first such study of Operation Banner, the British Army's campaign in Northern Ireland. Drawing upon extensive interviews with former soldiers, primary archival sources including unpublished diaries and unit log-books, this book closely examines soldiers' behaviour at the small infantry-unit level (Battalion downwards), including the leadership, cohesion and training that sustained, restrained and occasionally misdirected soldiers during the most violent period of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It contends that there are aspects of wider scholarly literatures - including from sociology, anthropology, criminology, and psychology - that can throw new light on our understanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland. It also offers fresh insights and analysis of incidents involving the British Army during the early years of Operation Banner, including the 1972 'Pitchfork murders' of Michael Naan and Andrew Murray in County Fermanagh, and that of Warrenpoint hotel owner Edmund Woolsey in South Armagh.The central argument of this book is that British Army small infantry units enjoyed considerable autonomy during the early years of Operation Banner and could behave in a vengeful, highly aggressive or benign and conciliatory way as their local commanders saw fit. The strain of civil-military relations at a senior level was replicated operationally as soldiers came to resent the limitations of waging war in the UK. The unwillingness of the Army's senior leadership to thoroughly investigate and punish serious transgressions of standard operating procedures in Northern Ireland created uncertainty among soldiers over expected behaviour and desired outcomes. Overly aggressive groups of soldiers could also be mistaken for high-functioning units - with negative consequences for the Army's overall strategy in Northern Ireland.
Author : Huw Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107656246
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Fighting the Mau Mau written by Huw Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force necessary. This revealing study questions what this meant for the civilian population during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, one of Britain's most violent decolonisation wars. For the first time Huw Bennett examines the conduct of soldiers in detail, uncovering the uneasy relationship between notions of minimum force and the colonial tradition of exemplary force where harsh repression was frequently employed as a valid means of quickly crushing rebellion. Although a range of restrained policies such as special forces methods, restrictive rules of engagement and surrender schemes prevented the campaign from degenerating into genocide, the army simultaneously coerced the population to drop their support for the rebels, imposing collective fines, mass detentions and frequent interrogations, often tolerating rape, indiscriminate killing and torture to terrorise the population into submission.
