The Kitchener Armies

Author : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844155854
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kitchener’s 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 : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473815797
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kitchener's Army written by Peter Simkins and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 366 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 : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719026386
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kitchener's Army written by Peter Simkins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victor Wallace Germains
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kitchener Armies written by Victor Wallace Germains and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bogen giver et indblik i "The Kitchener Armies", hvordan de blev oprettet og hvilken rolle de spillede under 1. Verdenskrig, her bl.a. om den 23. engelske infanteridivision.

Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kitchener's Mob written by James Norman Hall and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015986466
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army written by James Norman Hall and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kitchener's Army and the Territorial Forces written by Edgar Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry D. Davray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Download or read book Lord Kitchener written by Henry D. Davray and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. J. Smithers
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book The Fighting Nation written by A. J. Smithers and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Kitchener who dutifully accepted the War Ministry for a period of three years and made the unsurprising discovery that he had inherited neither an army nor the means of creating one. Yet having called for 100,000 volunteers, he got by the time of his death over 3,000,000.

Author : James Norman Hall
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army written by James Norman Hall and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief narrative is by no means a complete record of life in a battalion of one of Lord Kitchener's first armies. It is, rather, a story in outline, a mere suggestion of that life as it is lived in the British lines along the western front. If those who read gain thereby a more intimate view of trench warfare, and of the men who are so gallantly and cheerfully laying down their lives for England, the purpose of the writer will have been accomplished.