The Imperial War Museum Book Of The Western Front

Author : Malcolm Brown
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447264320
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front written by Malcolm Brown and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unrivalled and readable introduction to the years of Trench Warfare' TESThe First World War was won and lost on the Western Front. Covering the whole war, from the guns of August 1914 to the sudden silence of the November 1918 Armistice, the IWM Book of the Western Front reveals what life was really like for the men and women involved. With first-hand accounts of off-duty entertainments, trench fatalism, and going over the top, this is an extremely important contribution to the continuing debate on the First World War. Malcolm Brown has updated this edition, introducing new evidence on sex and homosexuality, executions, the treatment or mistreatment of prisoners and shell shock.'A blockbuster . . . as near as anyone is likely to get to the authentic life of the trenches' Yorkshire Post

Author : Malcolm Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780879389628
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front written by Malcolm Brown and published by . This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Malcolm Brown
Publisher : MacMillan UK
ISBN 13 : 9780283073236
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914 written by Malcolm Brown and published by MacMillan UK. This book was released on 2004 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on new material from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, Malcolm Brown skillfully recreates the pivotal year of 1914 through the eyes of the men and women who experienced the war first-hand, vividly capturing the brutality of war as well as the moments of humanity.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Front 1914-1918 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Malcolm Brown
Publisher : Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperial War Museum Book of the First World War written by Malcolm Brown and published by Trans-Atlantic Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841763484
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First World War (3) written by Peter Simkins and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the second volume covering the war on the Western Front, Peter Simkins describes the last great battles of attrition at Arras, on the Aisne and at Passchendaele in 1917. Then he moves on to relate the successive offensives launched by Germany in the spring and summer of 1918 in an effort to achieve victory or a favourable peace before American manpower proved decisive. Again, questioning and correcting several myths and long-held assumptions about the nature and conduct of war on the Western Front, the author also looks at the aftermath and legacy of the 'war to end wars'.

Author : Peter Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190872993
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Battle written by Peter Hart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of The Great War, as well as celebrated accounts of the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, Jutland, and Gallipoli, historian Peter Hart now turns to World War One's final months. Much has been made of-and written about-August 1914. There has been comparatively little focus on August 1918 and the lead-up to November. Because of the fixation on the Great War's opening moves, and the great battles that followed over the course of the next four years, the endgame seems to come as a stunning anticlimax. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the guns simply fell silent. The Last Battle definitively corrects this misperception. As Hart shows, a number of factors precipitated the Armistice. After four years of bloodshed, Germany was nearly bankrupt and there was a growing rift between the military High Command and political leadership. But it also remained a determined combatant, and France and Great Britain had equally been stretched to their limits; Russia had abandoned the conflict in the late winter of 1918. However complex the causes of Germany's ultimate defeat, Allied success on the Western Front, as Hart reveals, tipped the scales-the triumphs at the Fifth Battle of Ypres, the Sambre, the Selle, and the Meuse-Argonne, where American forces made arguably their greatest contribution. The offensives cracked the Hindenburg Line and wore down the German resistance, precipitating collapse. Final victory came at great human cost and involved the combined efforts of millions of men. Using the testimony of a range of participants, from the Doughboys, Tommies, German infantrymen, and French poilus who did the fighting, to those in command during those last days and weeks, Hart brings intimacy and sweep to the events that led to November 11, 1918.

Author : Great Britain. War Office. General Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes for Infantry Officers on Trench Warfare written by Great Britain. War Office. General Staff and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233004198
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First World War in Photographs written by Richard Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the war to end all wars, a conflict without precedent in which millions perished and it was also one of the first conflagrations captured comprehensively in photographs. These carefully selected images capture World War One in all its haunting detail. From the mud of Flanders to the beaches of Gallipoli, all the great battles, all the theaters of operations, and all the nationalities involved are commemorated. It's an intensely moving testament to the patriotism and innocence of the men and women who volunteered, the bloody reality of trench warfare on the Western Front, the terror of gas and mechanized weaponry, the sea battles around the globe, and the ultimate sacrifice of a generation. Divided year by year, each chapter opens with a comprehensive overview of the main events and developments."

Author : Stephen Bull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472808622
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trench written by Stephen Bull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to trench warfare on the Western Front from an authority on the subject. Even now, 100 years on from the conflict, the image of trenches stretching across Western Europe – packed with young men clinging to life in horrendous conditions – remains a powerful reminder of one of the darkest moments in human history. In this excellent study of trench warfare on the Western Front, expert Dr Stephen Bull reveals the experience of life in the trenches, from length of service and coping with death and disease, to the uniforms and equipment given to soldiers on both sides of the conflict. He reveals how the trenches were constructed, the weaponry which was developed specifically for this new form of warfare, the tactics employed in mass attacks and the increasingly adept defensive methods designed to hold ground at all cost. Packed with photographs, illustrations, annotated trench maps, documents and first-hand accounts, this compelling narrative provides a richly detailed account of World War I, providing a soldier's-eye-view of life in the ominous trenches that scarred the land.