Download or read book On the Western Front written by John Laffin and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A serious attempt to illustrate the humanity of the soldier on the Western Front, this title reflects World War I as they saw it: from first shot to last. These tales, told to fellow men in the trenches, behind the lines, at base hospitals and at the estaminets and billets during rest periods, have been recorded here.
Download or read book American Battlefields of World War 1 Ch teau Thierry then and Now Enter the Yanks as told in the actual words of the soldiers written by David C. Homsher and published by BATTLEGROUND PRODUCTIONS. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Battlefields of World War I:Chateau-Thierry--Then and Now is a 304-page book filled with photos from the actual battlefields, photos of the soldiers, photos taken after the liberation of the area. These are juxtaposed with photos as the sites look now. The book text is comprised of the actual words of the soldiers who were there telling their side of the battle."--Publisher description.
Download or read book The Cross of Sacrifice Officers Who Died in the Service of British Indian and East African Regiments and Corps 1914 1919 written by S. D. & D. B. Jarvis and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tremendous piece of research, conducted over ten years, in which are listed, in alphabetical order, the names of over 60,000 officers of the British Empire who died during the Great War, including nurses and female aid workers. Based on the CWGC Registers, the information provided includes not only that shown in ‘Officers Died' but also the place of burial or commemoration. The alphabetical listing means that looking up a name does not require prior knowledge of the regiment (as in ‘Officers Died') though this information is given, as well as cross-reference to the relevant page number in ‘Officers Died’.
Download or read book Memorials of the Western Front written by Marcus van der Meulen and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and informed guide to the British Great War memorials on the Western Front. This book is an invaluable historical and practical guide.
Download or read book King s Road for King and Country written by and published by The Endless Bookcase Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born out of a desire to commemorate those men from King’s Road, St Albans, who lost their lives in the Great War, the road’s current residents suggested the idea of a lasting memorial. Then came the task of researching the lives and the families of those men. It involved many hours of leafing through old newspapers and archives, obtaining advice from local and national bodies and seeking help from relatives of the deceased. A further memorial – this book, which includes a brief history of this street – is the result. The book was compiled by Compiled by Judy Sutton & Helen Little with help and support from many others.
Download or read book The Cross of Sacrifice NCOs Men and Women of the UK Commonwealth and Empire Who Died in the Service of the Royal Navy Royal Marines Royal Navy Air Service Royal Flying Corp and the RAF 1914 1921 written by S. D. & D. B. Jarvis and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This list is set out in two sections: The Royal Navy with the Navies of the Empire and the Royal Marines; and The Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force. As with the other volumes in the series date and place of death are given with place of burial or commemoration. This volume breaks new ground by recording the deaths and burial sites of other ranks, and extending the date of research to 1921. The title is not exactly right since it makes no mention of Warrant Officers who are included in the lists.
Download or read book The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme written by Gavin Stamp and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century. It is the principal, tangible expression of the defining event in Britain's experience and memory of the Great War, the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, and it bears the names of 73,000 soldiers whose bodies were never found at the end of that bloody and futile campaign. This brilliant study by an acclaimed architectural historian tells the origin of the memorial in the context of commemorating the war dead; it considers the giant classical brick arch in architectural terms, and also explores its wider historical significance and its resonances today. So much of the meaning of the twentieth century is concentrated here; the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing casts a shadow into the future, a shadow which extends beyond the dead of the Holocaust, to the Gulag, to the 'disappeared' of South America and of Tianenmen. Reissued in a beautiful and striking new edition for the centenary of the Somme.
Download or read book The Foreign Burial of American War Dead written by Chris Dickon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normandy, Flanders Field and other overseas cemeteries of the American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) are well known. However, lesser-known burial sites of American war dead exist all over the world--in Australia and across the Pacific Rim, in Canada and Mexico, Libya and Spain, most of Europe and as far north as the Russian Arctic. This is the history of American soldiers buried abroad since the American Revolution. It traces the evolution of American attitudes and practices about war dead and provides the names and locations of those still buried abroad in non-ABMC locations.
Download or read book Sculpture and Archaeology written by Andrew Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the intersections between art history and archaeology have become the focus of critical analysis by both disciplines. Contemporary sculpture has played a key role in this dialogue. The essays in this volume, by art historians, archaeologists and artists, take the intersection between sculpture and archaeology as the prelude for analysis, examining the metaphorical and conceptual role of archaeology as subject matter for sculptors, and the significance of sculpture as a three-dimensional medium for exploring historical attitudes to archaeology.
Download or read book Tig s Boys written by David Hilliam and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost Generation of the First World War were boys who had barely left school before they found themselves living in trenches, drowning in mud and living in constant fear of death. This unique collection of letters from a group of schoolboys who attended Bournemouth Grammar pays tribute to these boys who barely had the chance to become men. Bournemouth's grammar school was founded in 1901. Tragically, all boys who were pupils there in its first decade grew up to be of fighting age in the bloodiest war in history. Ninety-eight of them were killed, averaging about one death every fortnight throughout that conflict. However, it was not all unrelieved blood and slaughter. Life was hard, but often full of interest and surprise. Many of them wrote back to 'Tig' – their much-respected headmaster to tell him of their wartime adventures. Collectively, these letters provide a wide spectrum of the 'Great War.' We read of young men enjoying trying to catch rats in the trenches, winning bets on how long it would take to rescue a tank from no man's land, playing 'footer' amid the gunfire, and singing 'ragtime' in a rickety new-fangled aeroplane while 'rocking the machine in time to it.' This is the voice of the Lost Generation.
Download or read book Here s to the Men of Alton written by Tony Cross and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Great War almost 650 men enlisted from the small market town of Alton, Hampshire. These soldiers served all over the globe, including the Western Front, India, Mesopotamia, Salonika, Turkey and Russia, and were never the same again; some choosing to tell their stories, others desperately trying to forget what they had experienced. But they were the lucky ones: around a third of those who left for distant shores were never to return and instead lie buried in cemeteries across the world. The stories these men couldn’t tell themselves are uncovered here as a monument to their bravery and sacrifice.Here’s to the Men of Alton is a collection of personal accounts of courage and hardship which provides a lasting tribute to those ordinary men who gave their lives for King and Country.
Download or read book The C E F Roll of Honour written by Edward H. Wigney and published by Eugene Ursual. This book was released on 1996 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oise Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial written by American Battle Monuments Commission and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Carlow War Dead written by Tom Burnell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from the success of the War Dead series in counties Tipperary, Wexford, Wicklow ,and Offaly, Tom Burnell now turns his attention to County Carlow and the unfortunate soldiers from this area who lost their lived during the First World War. After tireless research Tom Burnell has put together a comprehensive record of the soldiers, officers, sailors, airmen and nursing sisters, who listed their next of kin as being from Carlow. The men and women honoured in The Carlow War Dead died in the service of the British Army, the Australian Army, the New Zealand Army, the American Army, the Indian Army, the Canadian Army, the South African Army, the Royal Navy or the British Mercantile Marine. Such a list, combined with intricate data and never-before-seen correspondence and photographs, is an essential addition to any local historian or military enthusiast's bookshelf.
Download or read book The Marne 15 July 6 August 1918 written by Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson and published by . This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Immortal Heritage written by Fabian Ware and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1937 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir William Trumbull in Paris written by Ruth Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1938, this book contains an account of Sir William Trumbull's two years as extraordinary envoy to France during the reign of James II. Clark draws heavily on Trumbull's accounts and letters to create a detailed picture of his active working life in France, occasionally against the interests of his monarch in defence of French Protestants. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Stuart diplomacy and the history of Anglo-French relations.
