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Author : William Denman Croft
Publisher : London : J. Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Three Years with the 9th (Scottish) Division written by William Denman Croft and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1919 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paddy Griffith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300066630
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Battle Tactics of the Western Front written by Paddy Griffith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, with untried new military technology, and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book a renowned military historian studies the evolution of British infantry tactics during the war and challenges this interpretation, showing that while the British army's plans and technologies failed persistently during the improvised first half of the war, the army gradually improved its technique, technology, and, eventually, its' self-assurance. By the time of its successful sustained offensive in the fall of 1918, says Paddy Griffith, the British army was demonstrating a battlefield skill and mobility that would rarely be surpassed even during World War II. Evaluating the great gap that exists between theory and practice, between textbook and bullet-swept mudfield, Griffith argues that many battles were carefully planned to exploit advanced tactics and to avoid casualties, but that breakthrough was simply impossible under the conditions of the time. According to Griffith, the British were already masters of "storm troop tactics" by the end of 1916, and in several important respects were further ahead than the Germans would be even in 1918. In fields such as the timing and orchestration of all-arms assaults, predicted artillery fire, "Commando-style" trench raiding, the use of light machine guns, or the barrage fire of heavy machine guns, the British led the world. Although British generals were not military geniuses, says Griffith, they should at least be credited for effectively inventing much of the twentieth-century's art of war.
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals. 1923 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Best Books: F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals. 1923 written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Best Books written by William Swan Sonnenschein and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of Additions to the Libraries, Classified, Annotated and Indexed written by Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Hart
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399068792
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Laugh or Cry written by Peter Hart and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awakened by great shouted oaths below. Peeped over the side of the manger and saw a Belgian lass milking and addressing a cow with a comprehensive luridness that left no doubt in my mind that British soldiers had been billeted here before.' - Private Norman Ellison, 1/6th King’s Liverpool Regiment Humor helped the British soldier survive the terrible experiences they faced in the trenches of the Western Front during the Great War. Human beings are complicated, and there is no set pattern as to how they react to the outrageous stresses of war. But humor, often dark and representative of the horrors around them could and often did help. They may have been up to their knees in mud and blood, soaking wet and shot at from all sides, but many were still determined to see the ‘funny side’, rather than surrender to utter misery. Peter Hart and Gary Bain have delved deep into the archives to find examples of the soldier’s wit. The results are at times hilarious but rooted in tragedy. You have to laugh or cry.
Author : Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal United Service Institution written by Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Lavery
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612005675
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Churchill Warrior written by Brian Lavery and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “truly exceptional” account of how Churchill’s experiences in the armed forces helped him lead Britain to victory in World War II (Booklist). No defense minister in modern times has faced the challenges that Winston Churchill did during the Second World War. Fortunately, he had a unique and intimate inside knowledge of all three services, which allowed him to assess their real needs—a crucial task when money, material resources, and, especially, manpower were reaching their limits. Churchill Warrior looks at how Churchill gained his unique insight into war strategy and administration through his experiences after joining the army in 1896, and the effect this had on his thinking and leadership. Each period—before, during, and after the First World War, and in the Second World War—is divided into four parts: land, sea, and air warfare and combined operations. The conclusion deals with the effect of these experiences on his wartime leadership. From a Sunday Times–bestselling author, this is a grand narrative that begins with the Marlborough toy soldiers and the army class at Eton, then leads us through those early military and journalistic experiences, the fascinating trials and lessons of the First World War, and the criticism and tenacity culminating in the ultimate triumph of the Second. It explores how some of Churchill’s earliest innovations were to bear fruit decades later and how his uncompromising, uniquely informed hands-on approach, and his absolute belief in combined forces in Normandy, led to a systemic victory against the odds.
Author : Chris Schoeman
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 177022677X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Somme Chronicles written by Chris Schoeman and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The heavy smell of blood filled the air, and every moment you had this intense fear that the next bullet was meant for you. So remembered William Thorne, a South African volunteer soldier who fought in the muddy trenches along the River Somme in France on Europe’s Western Front. A boy of nineteen at the time, he was one of thousands of South Africans who took part in the 1916 Somme Offensive between the Allied forces and the Germans. It was one of the bloodiest and costliest conflicts of the First World War, resulting in over a million deaths. The men of the 1st South African Infantry Brigade were involved on a large scale and distinguished themselves in all major engagements during the campaign. But their bravery came at a price. In the first month alone, after six days of fighting to recapture the village of Longueval and clear Delville Wood of enemy soldiers, of the brigade’s 3 433 soldiers, only 750 were left standing. The rest were dead or wounded. By the armistice, the South Africans had suffered some 15 000 casualties in France, of which one third had died.
Author : Simon Robbins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134269676
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book British Generalship on the Western Front 1914-1918 written by Simon Robbins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the British Army's response on the Western Front to a period of seminal change in warfare. In particular it examines the impact of the pre-war emphasis on worldwide garrison, occupation and policing duties for the Empire's defence of the mindset of the Army's leadership and its lack of preparation for a continental war involving a massive, unplanned increase in men and material. The reasons for the poor performance in the early years of the war, notably professionalism within the British Army, including poor staff work, 'trade unionism', careerism within the high command, and the tendency of an overconfident hierarchy to ignore the need for reform to tackle the tactical stalemate prior to 1916, are analysed. The high command rapidly learnt from the defeats of 1915-16 and performed much better in 1916-18, an especially formative period resulting in the promotion of a younger, more professional leadership and the development of the first truly modern system of tactics which has dominated wars ever since. During 1917-18 the Army's commanders and staff evolved and improved these new methods; developing a doctrine of combined arms to overcome the tactical stalemate bedevilling Allied offensives.
Author : Charles Messenger
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780227590
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Call to Arms written by Charles Messenger and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive account of how the British Army coped with and adapted to the enormous challenges and pressures of the First World War -- the first major continental war that the army had had to fight for almost a hundred years. Following the course of the War, both on the Western Front and in other theatres, Charles Messenger tells how the British Army managed the challenges of command, training, technology and new weapons of war. He examines officer selection, medicine, discipline, the manpower crisis of 1918, the integration of women into the forces and many other topics. Based on years of original research, this will become the standard work of reference on the organization and administration of the biggest army Britain has ever put into the field.
Author : Great Britain. War Office. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the War Office Library written by Great Britain. War Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christon Archer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351505866
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Men at War written by Christon Archer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing number of books on military history and the lively interest in military history courses at colleges and universities show that the study of war is enjoying considerable popularity. The reasons for this are arguable, but of immediate interest is the kind of military history that is taught and written. Here the student of war comes across an interesting division of opinion as to how military history should be written. Military history, lying as it does on the frontier between history and military science, requires knowledge of both fields. This fact often presents a difficulty to the history teacher.Generally speaking, history is a discipline by virtue of its subject matter, not by virtue of a particular methodology such as is characteristic of the sciences and of some social sciences. The perspective of Men at War is a cross between a professional internalist approach and a civilian contextual view. This separation is not unique to military history, for the same dualism tends to occur in those areas of history, such as law and medicine, that can be written both by members of the profession concerned?lawyers and doctors?and by those outside the profession.The problem is that at one extreme the contextual view can take the emotional content out of war, while at the other extreme the internalist view can put too much in. Men at War seeks to locate a military history that combines the professional, internalist method and the civilian, contextual method by showing that these are two fundamental sources from which a war derives. Seen in this way, this volume breaks new ground in defining the sources of twentieth-century power.
Author : Peter Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190872985
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Last Battle written by Peter Hart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the final months of the Great War, and how the Allies, including freshly arrived American soldiers, defeated Germany on the Western Front.
Author : Lord Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473815053
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book A History of the British Cavalry written by Lord Anglesey and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1995-04-19 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this last volume of a monumental chronicl e, the author shows the part played by the British cavalry i n the First World War. Drawing on material from a number of sources he demonstrates how the cavalry''s superior mobility saved the day time and again. '
