Download or read book Last Stand at Zandvoorde 1914 written by Mike McBride and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last Stand At Zandvoorde 1914 written by Mike McBride and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the son of the Duke of Westminster, whose family traces its lineage back to 1066, Lord Hugh Grosvenor was destined to become a cavalry officer in the prestigious 1st Regiment of Life Guards. Using unpublished letters home and contemporary accounts Noble Sacrifice describes Lord Hughs embarkation for France and the early mounted encounters which halted the enemy onslaught against the contemptible little army. These led to the stalemate of trench warfare and found Lord Hugh and his Squadron holding out at Zandvoorde during the First Battle of Ypres 1914 and being annihilated by superior numbers of enemy forces in some of the most desperate fighting of the First World War. Due to the advances in military hardware, the war for Lord Hugh and his comrades marked a turning point in cavalry tactics. As well as being a dramatic account of Lord Hugh Grosvenors last stand, Noble Sacrifice is a very personal story of courage and self-sacrifice. This heroic yet tragic story has a mysterious twist. The bodies of Lord Hugh and his 100 soldiers were never found - it was as if they had never existed.
Download or read book Last Stand written by Bryan Perrett and published by Arms & Armour. This book was released on 1993-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes 15 famous battles and the miscalculations that resulted in successes or failures.
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 "In the words of the tunnellers themselves, and through previously unpublished photographs - many in colour - as well as contemporary plans and drawings, this book reveals how this most intense of battles was fought - and won.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.
Download or read book The Seventh Division 1914 1918 written by Christopher Thomas Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1914 written by John Denton Pinkstone French (Earl of Ypres) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aristocrats Go to War written by Jerry Murland and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zillebekes small churchyard military cemetery provides the inspiration for this charming piece of military and social history. The author has researched into the exploits and backgrounds of 27 fallen soldiers, the majority being officers of the Guards and Cavalry, as well as other ranks and six Canadians.The outcome is a fascinating and moving book that emphasizes the indiscriminate nature of war. Privilege and wealth were no protection against bullets and shells and all men regardless of background took their chances, standing shoulder to shoulder. The 1st Battle of Ypres in late 1914 was in many ways the last stand of Britains Contemptible Little Army (as the Kaiser called it) and the Ypres Salient was to remain the focus of so much fighting over the next four years.Thanks to detailed research and support from the families concerned, the author has unearthed letters, memorabilia and photographs.
Download or read book Essex Units in the War 1914 1919 written by John William Burrows and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Salient Points Two written by Tony Spagnoly and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another group of stories in the Salient Points series. A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914-1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today. The content feature-titles are: The Black Watch; Lord Worsley at Zandvoorde; The 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers at Zandvoorde; The Worcesters and the Welsh at Gheluvelt in 1914; The Youngest Soldier; Major Lanoe Hawker at Abeele Aerodrome; 16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish) at Kichener Wood; Pond Farm; Fray Bentos at Hill 35; The Liverpool Irish at Schuler Galleries; The O'Donnell Twins; New Zealand at the village of Messines; Reconciliation at Broodseinde.
Download or read book The New Larned History for Ready Reference Reading and Research written by Josephus Nelson Larned and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unprofessional Soldier written by David G. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are lessons ever really learned? Incredibly detailed and highly emotive, "The Unprofessional Soldier" provides a powerful first-person account of the Mesopotamian campaign of the Great War.David Alexander has cleverly interwoven his grandfather's original manuscript and diaries with recollections of conversations together and additional material on the wider context of the campaign. The result is a moving tale of what drives a man to become a soldier and motivates him to fight, to kill and to survive. Insights into military authority, the narrative of wartime decision-making, the ebb and flow of battlefield successes and failures, and the detail of local tactics are balanced by descriptions of day-to-day living and surviving in harsh and dangerous environments where the combination of disease and Arab attacks were as damaging to the British forces as were the Turks themselves.The images of war are evocative: the bloated bodies of comrades in the desert sun, the anger and rage produced by the instant and violent death of a fellow soldier from a gaping head wound, the cold accounts given by the Battalion's hangman and the failed attempt at aerial re-supply of the besieged and starving British army at Kut-al-Amara. Alexander has also included the shades of regret and how a man can justify killing another, expressed in his grandfather's own words. A fascinating, well-researched tale that makes one contemplate the futility of war.
Download or read book Fatal Avenue written by Richard Holmes and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2008 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north east of Paris. The names of battles fought here read like a dictionary of military history. This book is both a history and a guide of a region that has witnessed more bitter military conflict than any other area of its size on earth.
Download or read book The Half shilling Curate written by Sarah Reay and published by Helion. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Half-Shilling Curate, as he was affectionately known by his family, tells the very personal story of an army chaplain - The Reverend Herbert Butler Cowl - from Christmas Eve 1914 to the end of hostilities in 1919. His descriptive account, from his own personal letters and writings, illustrates the value of faith during the war and the balance between serving God and carrying out his duties as a captain in the British Army. Herbert's engaging story told of the man who matured from humble Christian beginnings to the start of his journey discovering faith, love and a sense of duty and moral responsibility. At the outbreak of war, he volunteered to become a Wesleyan Army Chaplain. With meticulous detail, the reader is taken on Herbert's journey with the Durham Light Infantry from the objective view of life in the Army Home Camp in Aldershot, to the adventure of France and the reality of Flanders on the Western Front near Armentières. Whilst serving at the front, his service was cut short when he was severely wounded during heavy enemy bombardment at the front. On his journey back to England, he was placed in a cot bed aboard the hospital ship Anglia when she hit a German mine in the Channel. As a result of Herbert's actions on that fateful day, he became one of the first Wesleyan Army Chaplains to receive the Military Cross for exemplary gallantry. His second battle was recovery - and although he was never fit enough to return to overseas duties, he returned to work as an Army Chaplain in the army garrisons and home camps in England. The book gives an insight into day-to-day life and the strains of service as an Army Chaplain on the Home Front at Colchester and Portsmouth. Twenty years later, Herbert - a Methodist minister with a family living in Acton - found himself in the center of another battle: the Second World War. As he stayed in London through the London Blitz, again the reader gains an understanding of one man's faith during war and the comparisons that can be seen for a new generation. Herbert's story concludes with the final chapter of his life and the intimate observations of a spiritual man driven to follow his faith during war. Foreword written by Hugh Pym, BBC Health Editor
Download or read book The Vest Pocket Kodak and the First World War written by JON. COOKSEY and published by Ammonite Press. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Now it can be Told written by Philip Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Operations France and Belgium 1914 1918 written by Sir James Edward Edmonds and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
