Download or read book Sir Douglas Haig s Despatches December 1915 April 1919 written by Earl Douglas Haig Haig and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Lincolnshire Regiment 1914 1918 written by C. R. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shadow Enemies written by Alex Abella and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing account of the Nazi plot to paralyze the American war effort through terrorist actions on U.S. soil.
Download or read book Despatch from Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig Covering the Period from 8th December 1917 to 30th April 1918 written by Sir Douglas Haig and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Debrett s Peerage Baronetage Knightage and Companionage written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Blood of Our Sons written by N. Gullace and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking study of the complex relationship between war, gender, and citizenship in Great Britain during World War I, Nicoletta Gullace shows how the assault on civilian masculinity led directly to women's suffrage. Through recruiting activities such as handing out white feathers to reputed 'cowards' and offering petticoats to unenlisted 'shirkers', female war enthusiasts drew national attention to the fact that manhood alone was an inadequate marker of civic responsibility. Proclaiming women's exemplary service to the nation, feminist organizations tapped into a public culture that celebrated military service while denigrating those who opposed the war. Drawing on the vast range of popular and official sources, Gullace reveals that the war had revolutionary implications for women who wished to vote and for men who were expected to fight.
Download or read book Strategy for Chaos written by Colin Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), in order to improve our comprehension of how and why strategy 'works'. The author explores the RMA hypothesis both theoretically and historically. The book argues that the conduct of an RMA has to be examined as a form of strategic behaviour, which means that, of necessity, it must "work" as strategy works. The great RMA debate of the 1990s is reviewed empathetically, though sceptically, by the author, with every major school of thought allowed its day in court. The author presents three historical RMAs as case studies for his argument: those arguably revealed in the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon; in World War I; and in the nuclear age. The focus of his analysis is how these grand RMAs functioned strategically. The conclusions that he draws from these empirical exercises are then applied to help us understand what, indeed, is - and what is not - happening with the much vaunted information-technology-led RMA of today.
Download or read book Douglas Haig the Educated Soldier written by John Terraine and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1963 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Western Front and the First World War is one of battles of attrition against an entrenched enemy, with terrible casualties suffered by both sides in some of the worst fighting ever. In this history the picture has emerged of British generals remote and detached from the reality of the trenches who repeatedly sent their men to die in pointless attacks against the enemy. This book, by the renowned historian of the First World War John Terraine, scrupulously researched and brilliantly written, takes a more objective and accurate approach to the figure of Haig - the supreme commander of the British Army - and to the history of the War.
Download or read book Britain and Her Army written by Correlli Barnett and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, "Britain and Her Army" was Correlli Barnett's sixth published book and earned him the Royal Society of Literature's W.H. Heinemann Award. It is a unique general study of the historical development of the British Army, from the reign of King Henry VIII to the end of the Second World War. Barnett shows how our military institutions transformed themselves over the course of four centuries of social and technological change. Civil wars, imperial conquest and two World Wars are described in detail, along with more day-to-day topics such as recruitment, administration, pay, the social origins of officers and men, supply and equipment. Through the book he compares developments in Britain with those in Continental armies, and analyses the lessons the British learned, or failed to learn, from their European cousins. The result is a truly comprehensive work, and a fascinating portrait of Britain's most misunderstood institutions.
Download or read book Modern War written by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson and published by London : G. Richards. This book was released on 1917 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Butchers and Bunglers of World War One written by John Laffin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a forceful and probing analysis of the British generals' leadership. For too long, John Laffin maintains, the generals' military reputation has not been examined critically enough, and he asks how those responsible for such catastrophic defeats were able to retain their commands. Haig, whose army suffered 60,000 casualties on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, was still in command after five months more fighting and another 400,000 casualties. By the war's end the number of dead ran into millions; doggedly brave British Empire soldiers who, John Laffin believes, were killed, wounded or broken by commanders who were vain, egocentric or incompetent. But the generals, who blamed the dead and junior in rank, cannot be excused on the grounds that there was 'nothing else that they could do.' Even now, ninety years after the 'Great War for Civilization', this book raises uncomfortable questions. Dr Laffin draws on the memories and writings of those who took part and quotes other military historians to provide a lucid analysis of just what went wrong in the generals' leadership and how it resulted in such appalling losses, and concludes that they were not merely incompetent, but uncaring. Controversial, intelligent and uncompromising, this important book is an invaluable addition to the history of World War I and will be read by all interested in this period and its influence on succeeding campaigns.
Download or read book Sir Douglas Haig s despatches written by Douglas Haig and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tapestry Of War written by Sandra Gwyn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandra Gwyn's first highly praised non-fiction work, The Private Capital, won the Governor General's Award and was a national bestseller. Tapestry of War brings to brilliant life the Great War experiences of ten Canadians, three of them women. Through diaries, personal letters, and memoirs, enriched by anecdotes and meticulous research, Sandra Gwyn has created a vivid world where, as Elizabeth Longford noted, "The boom of the guns never drowns the voices of the people."
Download or read book The West Yorkshire Regiment in the War 1914 1918 written by Everard Wyrall and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book David Lloyd George written by Peter Rowland and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the former British Prime Minister and political leader describing the pressures, events and motives which shaped his public life and private life.
Download or read book The Collectors Club Philatelist written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1928 includes translations from Khol's Handbook.
Download or read book At G H Q written by Brigadier-General John Charteris and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial day-to-day account, by Haig's Chief of Intelligence, at the British Expeditionary Force General Headquarters throughout the war on the Western Front. Charteris had not kept a diary at the time, so 'At GHQ' consists of papers, notes and letters from the time, rewritten into diary form. He confessed to sometimes amplifying from memory but by and large the reconstructed 'diary' is consistent with records which he kept at the time, e.g. his entry for the First Day of the Somme which he states was "not an attempt to win the war at a blow", and that "weeks of hard fighting" lay ahead. This is an important and interesting work containing much interesting material and revealing gossip.
