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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 Beneath Flanders Fields by : Peter Barton
Download or read book Beneath Flanders Fields written by Peter Barton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The product of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields illustrates the evolution of military mining, leading to its deployment in the greatest siege in military history - in the trenches of the Western Front." "In the words of the tunnellers themselves, and through previously unpublished photographs - many in colour - as well as contemporary plans and drawings, this book reveals how this most intense of battles was fought - and won. Few on the surface knew the horrific details of the tunnellers' work, yet this silent, claustrophobic conflict was a barbaric struggle that raged day and night for almost two and a half years, and one which generated mental and physical stresses often far beyond those suffered by the infantry in the trenches. On 7 June 1917 at Messines Ridge, the tension was broken with the opening of the most dramatic mine offensive in history."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Beneath Flanders Fields by : Peter Barton
Download or read book Beneath Flanders Fields written by Peter Barton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields reveals how this intense underground battle was fought and won. The authors give the first full account of mine warfare in World War I through the words of the tunnellers themselves as well as plans, drawings, and previously unpublished archive photographs, many in colour. Beneath Flanders Fields also shows how military mining evolved. The tunnellers constructed hundreds of deep dugouts that housed tens of thousands of troops. Often electrically lit and ventilated, these tunnels incorporated headquarters, cookhouses, soup kitchens, hospitals, drying rooms, and workshops. A few dugouts survive today, a final physical legacy of the Great War, and are presented for the first time in photographs in Beneath Flanders Fields.
Book Synopsis War Underground by : Alexander Barrie
Download or read book War Underground written by Alexander Barrie and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Tunnellers of Holzminden (with a Side-issue) by : Hugh George Durnford
Download or read book The Tunnellers of Holzminden (with a Side-issue) written by Hugh George Durnford and published by Cambridge : University Press. This book was released on 1920 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birdsong written by Sebastian Faulks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s In this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land. Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient, crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love.
Book Synopsis Transactions of the Institution of Mining & Metallurgy by :
Download or read book Transactions of the Institution of Mining & Metallurgy written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bluebird written by Genevieve Graham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Present day: when a cache of whisky labelled Bailey Brothers' Best is unearthed, Cassie Simmons, a museum curator, hopes to find the answers she's been searching for about the legendary family of bootleggers. 1917: Corporal Jeremiah Bailey is badly wounded in an explosion and placed under the care of Adele Savard. By war's end, Jerry and Adele cross paths once again during the grip of Prohibition, which brings exciting opportunities as well as new dangerous conflicts that threaten to destroy everything they have fought for.
Book Synopsis The Blackbird's Tale by : Emma Blair
Download or read book The Blackbird's Tale written by Emma Blair and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Glasgow on the brink of the Great War to the cut-throat world of London publishing - the spellbinding saga of three remarkable generations. Cathy: a Glasgow factory-girl who experiences love, its loss and a kind of victory in the space of two turbulent wartime years . . . Hannah: the daughter whose marriage enjoys the fruits of undreamt prosperity. But her love must learn to endure the turmoil of a very personal hurt . . . Robyn: the product of her generation. Modern, extrovert and vivacious, her heart is broken by the only man she'll ever love. Yet she finally comes to control her destiny - and that of the lover she never really lost... This is the unforgettable story of three women united in their love for books, for life, and for their men. A story which began with the little bookshop that Cathy fell in love with thirty years before. The Blackbird . . . Praise for Emma Blair: 'An engaging novel and the characters are endearing - a good holiday read' Historical Novels Review 'All the tragedy and passion you could hope for . . . Brilliant' The Bookseller 'Romantic fiction pure and simple and the best sort - direct, warm and hugely readable. Women's fiction at an excellent level' Publishing News 'Emma Blair explores the complex and difficult nature of human emotions in this passionately written novel' Edinburgh Evening News 'Entertaining romantic fiction' Historical Novels Review '[Emma Blair] is well worth recommending' The Bookseller
Book Synopsis Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War by : Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż
Download or read book Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War written by Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War: The Formats of British Commemorative Fiction is an in-depth analysis of the role of British war memorials in literature and film, in the wider context of the commemorative trend in contemporary culture. The Sheffield City Battalion Memorial, the Menin Gate Memorial, the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, the Royal Artillery Memorial, and the Shot at Dawn Memorial are the focus of the discussion, which aims to show how the meanings assigned to specific war memorials create ideologically diverse interpretations of the British experience of the Great War, ranging from the futility myth to the imperial sublime. The epistemological ambivalence of the war memorial lies at the heart of the analysis of the selected novels, films and plays, for the condemnation of a military conflict as a historical evil does not necessarily exclude the possibility of honouring the men who fought in it.
Book Synopsis The Ecology of Tropical East Asia by : Richard Corlett
Download or read book The Ecology of Tropical East Asia written by Richard Corlett and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition has been fully updated throughout, reflecting the explosion of new research in the region in the last few years and the increasing use of new tools, particularly genomics and remote sensing.
Download or read book Seed Fate written by J. E. Lambert and published by CABI. This book was released on 2005 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents current knowledge of seed fate in both natural and human-disturbed landscapes, from various regions of the world. Habitats considered range from mountain and arid deserts in the temperate zone, to savanna and lowland rainforests in tropical regions of the world. Particular attention is paid to plant diversity conservation when seed removal is affected by factors such as hunting, habitat fragmentation or intensive logging. Contributors include leading scientists involved in research on seed ecology and on animal-plant relationships from the perspective of both primary and secondary seed dispersal, and predation.
Download or read book Malice Aforethought written by Ian Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has always provided a stimulus to technological development, and throughout the twentieth century this new technology was harnessed to produce increasingly deadly and malicious types of explosives in the form of booby traps, mines, delayed-action devices and mobile charges. Designed, constructed or adopted to kill or injure, these lethal mechanisms function when a person disturbs or approaches a seemingly harmless object or performs an apparently safe act. In other instances they are set off by remote control or automatically after a lapse of time. Fully illustrated with diagrams and photographs, Malice Aforethought traces the design, deployment and effectiveness of these deadly devices throughout both world wars to the Vietnam War. Expertly and compellingly written, this unique study is a tribute to the brave men who risked their lives daily to neutralise the booby traps laid in the dimly lit dugouts of the Western Front, on the beaches of Normandy, or in the dark and dangerous tunnels of Chu Chi.
Download or read book Jubilee Joe written by Ellis Delmonte and published by Hawkwood Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lightning Keepers by : Damien Finlayson
Download or read book The Lightning Keepers written by Damien Finlayson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few soldiers on the Western Front had heard of the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, even after it had been renamed the ‘Alphabet Company’ by an AIF wag. Yet many knew the work of this tiny unit which numbered fewer than 300 at full strength. Despite its small size, the Alphabet Company’s influence was enormous and spanned the entire British sector of the Western Front, from the North Sea to the Somme. The Lightning Keepers: the AIF’s Alphabet Company in the Great War is the story of the ‘Alphabeticals’ who, led by Major Victor Morse, DSO, operated and maintained pumps, generators, ventilation fans, drilling equipment and other ingenious devices in extreme circumstances. Given the horrendous conditions in which the troops lived and fought, this equipment was desperately needed, as were the men who operated it in the same, often nightmarish setting. This is the first account of the dynamic little unit that was the Alphabet Company, a unit that has been neglected by history for a century. It is the story of the men, their machinery and the extraordinary grit they displayed in performing some of the most difficult tasks in a war noted for the horrific conditions in which it was waged. They do not deserve to be forgotten.
Book Synopsis Supporting Tunnelling Operations in the Great War by : Damien Finlayson
Download or read book Supporting Tunnelling Operations in the Great War written by Damien Finlayson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few soldiers on the Western Front had heard of the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, even after it had been renamed the Alphabet Company by an AIF wag. Yet many knew the work of this tiny unit which numbered fewer than 300 at full strength. Despite its small size, the Alphabet Companys influence was enormous and spanned the entire British sector of the Western Front, from the North Sea to the Somme.This is the story of the Alphabeticals who, led by Major Victor Morse, DSO, operated and maintained pumps, generators, ventilation fans, drilling equipment and other ingenious devices in extreme circumstances. Given the horrendous conditions in which the troops lived and fought, this equipment was desperately needed, as were the men who operated it in the same, often nightmarish setting.This is the first account of the dynamic little unit that was the Alphabet Company, a unit that has been neglected by history for a century. It is the story of the men, their machinery and the extraordinary grit they displayed in performing some of the most difficult tasks in a war noted for the horrific conditions in which it was waged. They do not deserve to be forgotten.
