Download or read book Reading in the Great War 1914 1916 written by David Bilton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Reading were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and a determination to see it through. Reading's experiences during the Great War can be taken as standing for the many smaller but important towns in the country whose story will never be told. However, being a county town it experienced both industrial and agrarian pressures that deeply affected its population. Initially enthusiastic about the war, recruitment soon dropped and the local regiment filled with men from the big cities. By 1916 most of the eligible men were keen to find ways to stay out of the army. In the centre of the town was the infamous Reading jail home to Irish dissidents, terrorists and POWs. On the surface it was a calm town that got on with its business: beer, biscuits, metalwork, seeds and armaments but its poverty impacted on industrial relations leading to strikes. It also had a darker side with child cruelty and death, especially suicide.
Download or read book The Great War written by Marc Ferro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark history of the war that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism and gives due weight to the role of non-Europeans in the conflict.
Download or read book Chronicle of the First World War 1914 1916 written by Randal Gray and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Great War 1914 written by Briggs Davenport and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great War written by Veterans of Foreign Wars of the USA and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Day of Wrath written by Louis Tracy and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Louis Tracy was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914' is a novel about the horrors of the first year of the Great War. The New York Times Book Review published this critique of the work: "The Human mind is so constituted that it becomes deadened by the weight of numbers, needing the personal, the individual, to awaken its liveliest sympathies. We read with pity and horror of the sufferings of a nation; but that they may be brought really home to us, become really vivid and forceful, they must be embodied in some person or small group of persons. And it is something of this embodiment which Mr. Tracy has achieved in his latest book, The Day of Wrath. We have all read of burned villages, murdered noncombatants, tortured women-all the horror and agony undergone by heroic Belgium in the cruel days of August and September, 1914. Mr. Tracy takes a little company of six people, two of them English, the others Belgium, and shows us what happens to them during that awful time." This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context."
Download or read book A History of the Great War written by C. R. M. F. Cruttwell and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Great War 1914 1918 written by Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser Cruttwell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great War 1914 1918 written by Cyril Bentham Falls and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great War written by Cyril Falls and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great War 1914 1918 a Brief Sketch written by C. R. L. Fletcher and published by Trieste Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully reproduces the original, and to the maximum degree possible, gives them the experience of owning the original work.We pride ourselves on not only creating a pathway to an extensive reservoir of books of the finest quality, but also providing value to every one of our readers. Generally, Trieste books are purchased singly - on demand, however they may also be purchased in bulk. Readers interested in bulk purchases are invited to contact us directly to enquire about our tailored bulk rates.
Download or read book Reading Course on the Great War 1914 1919 as Found in Nelson s Perpetual Loose leaf Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great War I was There July 4 1916 to October 22 1917 written by Sir John Alexander Hammerton and published by . This book was released on with total page 2060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading in the Great War written by David Bilton 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 100 Days to Victory How the Great War Was Fought and Won 1914 1918 written by Saul David and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saul David's 100 DAYS TO VICTORY is a totally original, utterly engaging account of the Great War - the first book to tell the story of the 'war to end all wars' through the events of one hundred key days between 1914 and 1918. 100 DAYS TO VICTORY is a 360 degree portrait of a global conflict that stretched east from the shores of Britain to the marshes of Iraq, and south from the forests of Russia to the bush of German South East Africa. Throughout his gripping narrative we hear the voices of men and women both eminent and ordinary, some who were spectators on the Home Front, others - including Saul David's own family - who were deeply embroiled in epic battles that changed the world forever. 100 DAYS TO VICTORY is the work of a great historian and supreme story teller. Most importantly, it is also an enthralling tribute to a generation whose sacrifice should never be forgotten.
Download or read book The Great War 1914 1918 written by Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Western Front 1914 1916 written by Professor Michael S Neiberg and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-02-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns of the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns that raged on land, at sea and in the air.
