At Ypres with Best-Dunkley. [An account of the 2
Author | : Thomas Hope FLOYD |
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1920 |
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Author | : Thomas Hope FLOYD |
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1920 |
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Author | : Thomas Hope Floyd |
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Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
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Author | : Jessica Meyer |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230305423 |
Exploring how understandings of masculinity were constructed by British First World war servicemen through examination of their personal narratives, including letters home from the front and wartime diaries. This book presents a nuanced investigation of masculine identity in Britain during and after the First World War.
Author | : Jon Cooksey |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2013-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783034041 |
Battle Lines Ypres, the first volume in Pen & Swords new series of walking, cycling and driving guides to the Western Front, is the essential companion for every visitor to the Ypres Salient and the battlefields of Belgium. Many of the most famous - and most memorable - Great War sites are featured here. Expert guides Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of routes that can be walked, biked, or driven, explaining the fighting that occurred in each place in vivid detail. They describe what happened, where it happened, and why, and who was involved, and point out the sights that remain there for the visitor to see. Their accounts give a fascinating insight into the landscape of the front line and the acts of war that took place there a century ago.
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Total Pages | : 882 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Total Pages | : 992 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Philip Dwyer |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785333089 |
Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is one of the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre’s surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Covering conflicts from the Napoleonic era to today, the studies gathered here consider how memoirs have been used to transmit particular views of war even as they have emerged within specific social and political contexts.
Author | : Peter E. Hodgkinson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317171918 |
Recent studies of the British Army during the First World War have fundamentally overturned historical understandings of its strategy and tactics, yet the chain of command that linked the upper echelons of GHQ to the soldiers in the trenches remains poorly understood. In order to reconnect the lines of communication between the General Staff and the front line, this book examines the British army’s commanders at battalion level, via four key questions: (i) How and where resources were found from the small officer corps of 1914 to cope with the requirement for commanding officers (COs) in the expanding army; (ii) What was the quality of the men who rose to command; (iii) Beyond simple overall quality, exactly what qualities were perceived as making an effective CO; and (iv) To what extent a meritocracy developed in the British army by the Armistice. Based upon a prosopographical analysis of a database over 4,000 officers who commanded infantry battalions during the war, the book tackles one of the central historiographical issues pertaining to the war: the qualities of the senior British officer. In so doing it challenges lingering popular conceptions of callous incompetence, as well more scholarly criticism that has derided the senior British officer, but has done so without a data-driven perspective. Through his thorough statistical analysis Dr Peter Hodgkinson adds a valuable new perspective to the historical debate underway regarding the nature of British officers during the extraordinary expansion of the Army between 1914 and 1918, and the remarkable, yet often forgotten, British victories of The Hundred Days.
Author | : British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
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Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Subject |
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Author | : Stephen Snelling |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0752483730 |
Of all the costly campaigns fought across the Western Front during the First World War, none strikes a more chilling chord than Passchendaele. Even now, more than ninety years on, the very mention of the name is enough to conjure up apocalyptic images of desolation and misery on a quite bewildering scale – humanity drowning in a sea of mud. Passchendaele has come to serve as a symbol of the folly and futility of war, chiefly remembered for its carnage and profligate waste of human lives. It also stands as testament to the endurance and extraordinary courage displayed by men of all ranks and nationalities. During the 3 1⁄2 month long struggle, which claimed the lives of more than 60,000 British and Commonwealth servicemen, 61 men were adjudged to have performed deeds worthy of the Empire’s highest award for valour – the Victoria Cross.Men from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa were among their number, alongside men from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. They came from all walks of life, counting humble privates and, for the first time, a general among their ranks.This is a lasting memorial to a body of men who deserve to be numbered among the bravest of the brave.