Download or read book From the Dugouts to the Trenches written by Jim Leeke and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 SABR Baseball Research Award Winner Baseball, like the rest of the country, changed dramatically when the United States entered World War I, and Jim Leeke brings these changes to life in From the Dugouts to the Trenches. He deftly describes how the war obliterated big league clubs and largely dismantled the Minor Leagues, as many prominent players joined the military and went overseas. By the war’s end more than 1,250 ballplayers, team owners, and sportswriters would serve, demonstrating that while the war was “over there,” it had a considerable impact on the national pastime. Leeke tells the stories of those who served, as well as organized baseball’s response, including its generosity and patriotism. He weaves into his narrative the story of African American players who were barred from the Major Leagues but who nevertheless swapped their jerseys for fatigues, as well as the stories of those who were killed in action—and by diseases or accidents—and what their deaths meant to teammates, fans, and the sport in general. From the Dugouts to the Trenches illuminates this influential and fascinating period in baseball history, as nineteen months of upheaval and turmoil changed the sport—and the world—forever.
Download or read book Digging the Trenches written by Andrew Robertshaw and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, illustrated survey of the latest in battlefield archaeology reveals “intimate insight into the realities of life” during WWI (Current Archaeology). Modern methods of archaeological, historical, and forensic research have transformed our understanding of the Great War. In Digging the Trenches, battlefield archaeologists Andrew Robertshaw and David Kenyon introduce the reader to this exciting new field and explore many of the remarkable projects that have been undertaken. Robertshaw and Kenyon show how archaeology can be used to reveal the positions of trenches, dugouts and other battlefield features, as well as what life on the Western Front was really like. They also show how individual soldiers are coming into focus as forensic investigation is so highly developed that individuals can be identified and their fates discovered. “An excellent introduction to the subject…Digging the Trenches is essential reading.”—Gary Sheffield, Military Illustrated “What a splendid book this is.”—Neil Faulkner, Current Archaeology
Download or read book From Trench and Dugout written by Raymond Wunderlich and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from the Trenches written by Jacqueline Wadsworth and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families.??Letters from the Trenches reveals how people really thought and felt during the conflict and covers all social classes and groups Ð from officers to conscripts and women at home to conscientious objectors.??Voices within the book include Sergeant John Adams, 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers, who wrote in May 1917:'For the day we get our letter from home is a red Letter day in the history of the soldier out here. It is the only way we can hear what is going on. The slender thread between us and the homeland.'??Private Stanley Goodhead, who served with one of the Manchester Pals battalion, wrote home in 1916: 'I came out of the trenches last night after being in 4 days. You have no idea what 4 days in the trenches means...The whole time I was in I had only about 2 hours sleep and that was in snatches on the firing step. What dugouts there are, are flooded with mud and water up to the knees and the rats hold swimming galas in them...We are literally caked with brown mud and it is in all?our food, tea etc.'??Jacqueline Wadsworth skilfully uses these letters to tell the human story of the First World War Ð what mattered to Britain's servicemen and their feelings about the war; how the conflict changed people; and how life continued on the Home Front.
Download or read book Professional Memoirs Corps of Engineers United States Army and Engineer Department at Large written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Playing for Their Nation written by Steven R. Bullock and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Steven R. Bullock describes how virtually every significant American military installation around the world boasted formal baseball teams and leagues designed to soothe the anxieties of combatants and prepare them physically for battle. Officials also sponsored hundreds of exhibition contests involving military and civilian teams and tours by major league stars to entertain servicemen and elevate their spirits."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Tweets from the Trenches written by Jacqueline Carmichael and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Follow Carmichael's odyssey deep into the dugouts of World War I military history. ... This 168-page book is written in flash documentary creative non-fiction, and features small stories pulled from journals and letters of Allied soldiers from Prince Edward Island to Yorkshire to South Carolina, touching on everything from rationed rum and brave homing pigeons to post-traumatic stress disorder."--
Download or read book Study and Exploitation of Aerial Photographs written by United States. War Department. Division of Military Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TALES FROM A DUGOUT BY ARTHUR GUY EMPEY written by ARTHUR GUY EMPEY and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from a Dugout by Arthur Guy Empey is a gripping collection of tales from the trenches of World War I. These stories provide a vivid portrayal of the realities of war, showcasing Empey's first-hand experience as a soldier. Experience the harsh reality of war with Tales from a Dugout. It's a collection that continues to engage readers with its raw and realistic portrayal of life in the trenches. So why read Tales from a Dugout? Because it offers a rare and raw insight into the experiences of soldiers in World War I. Order your copy today.
Download or read book The Best Team Over There written by Jim Leeke and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Leeke tells the little-known history of Grover Cleveland Alexander and fellow athletes in the 342nd Field Artillery Regiment during the Great War.
Download or read book The Wipers Times written by Christopher Westhorp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades ahead of the amusing but distorting buffoonery of Blackadder Goes Forth, this complete edition of the Wipers Times, the famed trench newspaper of the First World War, is an extraordinary mix of black humour, fake entertainment programmes and pastiche articles, and constitutes a unique record of life on the wartime frontline. From its long-running cartoon pun (Are We Being Offensive Enough?) to its brilliantly subversive column Things We Want to Know (the name of the officer who originated the idea), its hilarious spoof ads to its pastiche fake contributors (Belary Helloc), this complete facsimile edition of the Wipers Times, produced to accompany the BBC dramatization, is a historical masterpiece that enables us to sample the real spirit of the trenches . . . from the safety of our armchairs. If you can drink the beer the Belgians sell you, And pay the price they ask with ne'er a grouse, If you believe the tales that some will tell you, And live in mud with ground sheet for a house, If you can live on bully and a biscuit, And thank your stars that you've a tot of rum, Dodge whizzbangs with a grin, and as you risk it Talk glibly of the pretty way they hum. . .
Download or read book Killing Time written by Nicholas J Saunders and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War of 1914-1918 now stands at the furthest edge of living memory. And yet, hardly a month passes without some dramatic and sometimes tragic discovery being made along the old killing fields of the Western Front. Graves of British soldiers buried during battle – still lying in rows seemingly arm in arm or found crouching at the entrance to a dugout; whole 'underground cities' of trenches, dugouts and shelters have been preserved in the mud; field hospitals carved out of the chalk country of the Somme marked with graffiti; unexploded bombs and gas canisters – all of these are the poignant and sometimes deadly legacies of a war we can never forget. Killing Time digs beneath the surface of war to uncover the living reality left behind. Nicholas J. Saunders brings together a wealth of discoveries to offer fresh insights into the human and often barbaric aspect of warfare. He uses discoveries in the trenches, family photographs, diaries and souvenirs to give the dead a voice. You cannot fail to be fascinated and moved by what he unearths.
Download or read book Training for the Trenches written by Leslie Vickers and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Training for the Trenches is a handbook by Leslie Vickers. It presents the practicalities needed in training for ditch warfare, a battle praxis needed both hundreds of years ago as well as today.
Download or read book Boston Medical and Surgical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Service Library Warfare of the future by H Jervey written by Charles Evans Kilbourne and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World War Records written by United States. Army. 1st Division and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United States Army in the World War 1917 1919 written by United States Historical Division (Army). and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
