Imperial War Museum Book Of The War At Sea 1914 18

Author : Julian Thompson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330540769
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea 1914-18 written by Julian Thompson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on gripping first-hand testimony from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this book reveals what it was really like to serve in the Royal Navy during the First World War. It was a period of huge change – for the first time the British navy went into battle with untried weapon systems, dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft and airships. Julian Thompson blends insightful narrative with never-before-published stories to show what these men faced and overcame. Officers and men, from admirals down to the youngest sailors faced the same dangers, at sea in often terrible weather conditions, with the ever-present prospect of being blown to pieces, or choking to death trapped in a compartment or turret as they plunged to the bottom of the sea. In their own words they share their experiences, from from long patrols and pitched battles in the cold, rough water of the North Sea to the perils of warfare in the Dardanelles; from the cat-and-mouse search for Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee in the Pacific to the dangerous raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge. We see what it was like to spend weeks in the cramped, smelly submarines of the period, or to attack U-boats from unreliable airships.

Author : Julian Thompson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780283073540
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea, 1914-18 written by Julian Thompson and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2005 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the British Navy, World War I was a massive learning curve. For the first time, she went into battle with an untried weapons system. In spite of this, the navy never failed to provide the shield which enabled the British Army to play a key role in the Western Front.

Author : Julian Thompson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780330491723
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea 1914-1918 written by Julian Thompson and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on testimony from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this book reveals what it was really like to serve in the Royal Navy during the First World War. For the first time the British navy went into battle with untried weapon systems, dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft and airships. This work shows what these men faced and overcame.

Author : Julian Thompson
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Author : Julian Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780283063787
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea written by Julian Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heathcoat S. Grant
Publisher : warletters.net
ISBN 13 : 0956690270
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My War at Sea 1914–1916 written by Heathcoat S. Grant and published by warletters.net. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the wartime recollections of Heathcoat S. Grant, captain of HMS Canopus from 1914–1916. It is published in conjunction with the War Letters 1914–1918 series. For anyone interested in the war at sea during the First World War, Grant provides a highly readable insider's view of the action at Coronel, the Battle of the Falklands and the attempt to force the Dardanelles.

Author : Julian Thompson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526724081
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial War Museums' Book of War Behind Enemy Lines written by Julian Thompson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the various units of the British special forces used during the Second World War, perfect for military enthusiasts and WWII history buffs. War Behind Enemy Lines tells the unvarnished story of British Special Forces in the Second World War. While the SAS and SBS remain household names today, there were a plethora of lesser known units, large and small, that played their part before departing the scene. Of special note was the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) formed in North Africa who imparted their skills to David Stirling’s SAS in the early days. The Special Boat Sections and Squadron and other Royal Marine units inflicted great damage. Popski’s Private Army used heavily armed jeeps effectively in Italy while the Jedburghs parachuted in to assist the French Resistance. In Burma, the Chindits, under the controversial Orde Wingate, conducted deep penetration patrols against the Japanese, suffering heavy casualties from enemy action and disease. Drawing on personal accounts as well as official records, Julian Thompson paints a vivid picture of the operations and contribution of these and other units. He also analyses, using his own experience, the reasons for the resulting successes and failures.There is unlikely to be a more comprehensive and authoritative account of the “Golden Age of British Special Forces.”

Author : Quintin Colville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784420727
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Sailor of the First World War written by Quintin Colville and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914 Great Britain had the largest and most powerful navy the world had ever seen – a well-known fact, but what of the everyday experience of those who served in her? This fully illustrated book looks at the British sailor's life during the First World War, from the Falkland Islands to the East African coast to the North Sea. Meals in the stokers' mess and the admiral's cabin; the claustrophobic terrors of the engine room or submarine; the long separations from loved ones that were the shared experience of all ranks; the perils faced by Royal Naval Air Service pilots in the air; the possessions treasured by sailors while at sea – drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished materials from the National Maritime Museum archives, this is an authoritative and vivid account of lives lived in quite extraordinary circumstances.

Author : Glen O'Hara
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137073128
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and the Sea written by Glen O'Hara and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day. This all-encompassing account covers individual seafarers, ship-borne migration, warfare and the maritime economy, as well as the British people's maritime ideas and self perception throughout the centuries.

Author : Gavin Roynon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752496026
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Fires Burning written by Gavin Roynon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgina Lydia Lee (1869-1965) moved in high society and, together with her husband Charles, had many contacts with members of the Establishment. In October 1913, aged 44, Georgina gave birth to her only child, Harry. Georgina was closely involved with the domestic war. She describes the food shortages that took hold as Britain was blockaded and the terror and carnage caused by the Zepplin air raids that assailed London. Letters from the six serving members of her family alerted her to the despair at the size of the Regular Army in 1914, the reality of the shell shortage scandal in 1915, the shortcomings of Sir Ian Hamilton in the Gallipoli campaign. By late 1916 Georgina shared her countrymen's anti-German feeling, as the scale of the Somme casualties became known. She writes of public figures, such as Sir Edward Grey, Asquith, Churchill and Lloyd George and the events that shook British society in the midst of war. Her diaries offer a fascinating insight into how Britain coped with the pressures and crises of the First World War on the Home Front.