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Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138062115
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kitchener¿s Last Volunteers and Their World written by Taylor & Francis Group and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis Goodwin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1907195297
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kitchener's Last Volunteer written by Dennis Goodwin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Allingham is the last British serviceman alive to have volunteered for active duty in the First World War and is one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict. In Kitchener's Last Volunteer, he vividly recaptures how life was lived in the Edwardian era and how it was altered irrevocably by the slaughter of millions of men in the Great War, and by the subsequent coming of the modern age. Henry is unique in that he saw action on land, sea and in the air with the British Naval Air Service. He was present at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 with the British Grand Fleet and went on to serve on the Western Front. He befriended several of the young pilots who would lose their lives, and he himself suffered the privations of the front line under fire. In recent years, Henry was given the opportunity to tell his remarkable story to a wider audience through a BBC documentary, and he has since become a hero to many, meeting royalty and having many honours bestowed upon him. This is the touching story of an ordinary man's extraordinary life - one who has outlived six monarchs and twenty-one prime ministers, and who represents a last link to a vital point in our nation's history.
Author : Vincent Trott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474291503
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Publishers, Readers and the Great War written by Vincent Trott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillusionment, horror and futility. This book examines how and why literature has had this impact, exploring the role played by authors, publishers and readers in constructing the memory of the war since 1918. It demonstrates that publishers were as influential as authors in shaping perceptions of the conflict, and it provides a detailed analysis of critical and popular responses to war books, tracing the evolution of readers' attitudes to the war between 1918 and 2014. By exploring the cultural legacy of the war from these two previously overlooked perspectives, Vincent Trott offers fresh insights regarding the emergence of a collective memory of the First World War in Britain. Drawing on a broad range of primary source material, including publishers' correspondence, dust jackets, adverts, book reviews and diary entries, and examining canonical authors such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Vera Brittain alongside long-forgotten texts and more recent autobiographical works by Harry Patch and Henry Allingham, Publishers, Readers and the Great War provides a rich and nuanced analysis of the climate within which First World War literature was written, published and received since 1918.
Author : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844155854
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kitcheners Army written by Peter Simkins and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener. How did Britain succeed in creating a mass army, almost from scratch, in the middle of a major war ? What compelled so many men to volunteer ' and what happened to them once they had taken the King's shilling ? Peter Simkins describes how Kitchener's New Armies were raised and reviews the main political, economic and social effects of the recruiting campaign. He examines the experiences and impressions of the officers and men who made up the New Armies. As well as analysing their motives for enlisting, he explores how they were fed, housed, equipped and trained before they set off for active service abroad. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from government papers to the diaries and letters of individual soldiers, he questions long-held assumptions about the 'rush to the colours' and the nature of patriotism in 1914. The book will be of interest not only to those studying social, political and economic history, but also to general readers who wish to know more about the story of Britain's citizen soldiers in the Great War.
Author : George H. Cassar
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612344453
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914-1916 written by George H. Cassar and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new study of one of Britain's most famous soldiers.
Author : Eva March Tappan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.4J/5 ( download)
Download or read book The World's Story written by Eva March Tappan and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Board for Historical Service
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book War Readings, Prepared Under the Direction of the National Board for Historical Service ... written by National Board for Historical Service and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Board for Historical Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book War Readings written by National Board for Historical Service and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book With Kitchener in the Soudan written by George Alfred Henty and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Gregory Hartley, who experiences the reconquest of the Sudan by the British Army in 1898.
Author : Frank Northen Magill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1504 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dictionary of World Biography written by Frank Northen Magill and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revision and reordering, with new entries added, of the material in the thirty vols. comprising the various subsets designated "series" published under the collective title : Great lives from history, 1987-1995.
